2012 Campaign

In the end, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul will not have won a single state during the GOP primary process. But that proved to be… Read more »

Mitt Romney kicked off his Florida general election campaign with a speech in St. Petersburg Wednesday attacking President Obama for creating a “spending and borrowing inferno.”

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New ads to run in four of the same five general election swing states are a sign of the new world of campaign finance, where so-called super political action committees have wide leeway to spend as much as they want to help or hurt candidates. … Read more »

The Orlando Sentinel has reported that Connie Mack IV’s water bills raise questions about his residency in Florida, which has become an issue in his GOP U.S. Senate primary campaign. And his opponent, George LeMieux, is using the story to take more shots at Mack…. Read more »

President Obama and Mitt Romney agree on one thing about Medicare: the differences between them are huge. Each man says his opponent’s policies would end Medicare as it now exists, undermining the rock-solid guarantee of health care for older Americans.

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President Barack Obama crisscrossed Manhattan on Monday for a series of targeted appeals to a trio of key election-year constituencies: women, young people, and gay and lesbian supporters…. Read more »

In an e-mail to supporters, Ron Paul said he would no longer actively campaign in states that have not yet held Republican presidential primaries. To do so, he said, “would take many tens of millions of dollars we simply do not have.”

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Steve MacNamara found himself defending his work for both the governor and while he was in the Senate. … Read more »

Congress is producing little this election year that will become law, yet both parties are churning out bills designed to make the other side look bad…. Read more »

President Barack Obama delighted his liberal base by coming down on the side of gay marriage, but he cheered the opposition, too…. Read more »

Everybody, it seems, is talking about women in this campaign — what they should do, how they should act, who they should be in society…. Read more »

Mitt Romney is steering clear of the fight over gay marriage and talking about his commitments to his own family in a commencement address at a conservative Christian university…. Read more »

Once a bright spot for President Barack Obama, North Carolina is now more like a political migraine less than four months before Democrats open the party’s national convention in Charlotte…. Read more »

The day after President Obama endorsed gay marriage, Mitt Romney found himself responding to allegations that as a teenager he harassed a prep school classmate who later came out as gay…. Read more »

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. — Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the… Read more »