Politics

Nature slams campaigns into real world
Suddenly, after drifting through months of confusing finger-pointing and iffy economic theory, the presidential candidates are getting walloped by an ...
Obama to view storm damage in New Jersey
President Barack Obama will travel to storm-stricken New Jersey on Wednesday to view damage from the massive storm that struck the East Coast and to ...
Oh no Ohio! Living under a political barrage
This is what it's like to be an Ohioan in the maddening final days of Campaign 2012: A cacophony of screeching voices spew attack ads from television ...
Nasty campaign tactics: Phony voting instructions
With a week to go until Election Day, the nasty campaign tactics are coming out. People in Florida, Virginia and Indiana have gotten calls falsely ...
GOP groups invest in Neb., NM Senate races
A Republican-leaning outside group is investing in Nebraska's suddenly tighter Senate race, looking to shore up Republican Deb Fischer as she tries ...
Water, fire, destruction: NYC after the superstorm
The massive storm that pummeled the East killed 10 people in New York City and left the nation's largest city eerily quiet Tuesday, with no running ...
Romney expands ad campaign into Pennsylvania
Mitt Romney is launching a statewide advertising campaign in Pennsylvania. The Republican presidential candidate is making a final-week bid to defeat ...
Presidential race rained out even in sunny states
Crista Laughlin was a mile high and dry, but Superstorm Sandy still kept the 40-year-old Obama campaign volunteer from walking precincts or working ...
Pot, gay marriage, suicide are ballot-item topics
After all the economy-focused campaign talk, voters in some states will get a chance on Election Day to sound off on intriguing topics that the ...
Gaffe-prone candidates hurt GOP's Senate chances
Republicans hopeful of taking over the Senate should be measuring the drapes. But a series of blown opportunities two years ago and again this year ...
A week to go: Sandy disrupts presidential campaign
Eight days before the election, President Barack Obama switched from campaigner to hands-on commander of the federal response to Superstorm Sandy as ...
Hurricane upends final week of Mass. Sen. campaign
The powerful storm ravaging the East Coast is upending the final week of campaigning in Massachusetts' grueling U.S. Senate race. Republican Sen.
Superstorm Sandy takes aim at Atlantic coast
Stripped of hurricane status but every bit as dangerous, the weather monster known as Sandy wheeled toward the New Jersey and Delaware coast Monday ...
Mother of Mo. Sen. McCaskill dies at age 84
Betty Anne Ward McCaskill, the mother of Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill and a political trailblazer in her own right, died Monday at her home in St.
Clinton: Romney claim about Jeep a 'load of bull'
Vice President Joe Biden and former President Bill Clinton have criticized Mitt Romney for saying that Chrysler is shifting production of its Jeep ...
Obama ad pushes back on Romney jobs claim in Ohio
TITLE: "Collapse." LENGTH: 30 Seconds AIRING: Ohio KEY IMAGES: The ad opens with a still photo of a shuttered factory and pans to a headline from a ...
Romney scraps Monday night, Tuesday campaigning
Mitt Romney juggled politics and Hurricane Sandy's fury on Monday as he tweaked his campaign schedule and political rhetoric eight days before most ...
Democratic PAC buys $180K in anti-DesJarlais ads
A national political action committee on Monday launched $180,000 worth of television ads against Republican Rep. Scott DesJarlais, who is ...
Mourdock: Cannot 'unring the bell' of rape comment
GOP Senate candidate Richard Mourdock says he can't "unring the bell" on comments he made last week about rape, and he's joining a national Republican ...
Facebook, Twitter abuzz with hurricane chatter
Whether you call it Frankenstorm, Stormpocalypse or simply Hurricane Sandy, the giant weather system barreling into the East Coast is a favorite topic ...
Obama aims to project leadership as storm hits
President Barack Obama the candidate stepped aside Monday so the commander in chief could take over. In the waning days of his re-election bid, the ...
Ohio: Vote is crucial _ but who are your voters?
Tommie Jo Marsilio is a former union shop steward. She's a single mom. And she's a Mitt Romney voter. "It's not my job to shatter stereotypes," she ...
Amtrak cancels Tuesday service in Northeast
Amtrak says it has canceled all Tuesday service in the Northeast due to high winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Sandy. The railroad said passenger ...
AP PHOTOS: Scenes from the Romney campaign
After waking up in Tampa, Fla., Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney walked down a hotel hallway carrying his own bags as he prepared to ...
AP survey: Economic ills may defy next president
Whoever wins the U.S. presidential election will likely struggle to manage the biggest economic threats he'll face. That's the cautionary message that ...