The economy remains the number one issue in November's presidential US election, but social issues have also become a key talking point for those courting the conservative vote.

If elected, Republican Party candidate Mitt Romney has pledged to outlaw abortion, except in instances of incest and rape.

But that was not always his position, as Al Jazeera's Zeina Awad reports from Ohio.

http://www.aljazeera.com/video/americas/2012/08/2012829174148465559.html

Greed and debt: The true story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital The great criticism of Mitt Romney, from both sides of the aisle, has always been that he doesn't stand for anything. He's a flip-flopper, they say, a lightweight, a cardboard opportunist who'll say anything to get elected.

The critics couldn't be more wrong. (Matt Taibbi) 

FIRST LADY Michelle Obama won the battle of the political wives last night. Her speech to the Democratic convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, made much of the difference between her husband Barack Obama's rags-to-White House upbringing and the wealthy background of his Republican opponent Mitt Romney, the son of a car industry executive.

She did it with the use of personal stories and, as The Washington Post's E.J. Dionne noted, the speech was "good enough that even Fox News was kind to her".

Dionne called it "the most devastating attack on Mitt Romney" so far at the Democratic convention. Yet the First Lady "did not mention Romney's name and said not a single cross thing about him".

Read more: http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/us-election-2012/48838/mom-chief-michelle-obama-wins-battle-political-wives#ixzz25eK5DqZi

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