2012 United States Presidential Election news and stories

2012 United States Presidential Election

Fiscal cliff: Impasse on tax rates is big hurdle
House Republicans' hard line against higher tax rates for upper-income earners leaves re-elected President Barack Obama with a tough, core decision: ...
Obama's big Hispanic win worries Republicans
Omayra Vasquez blinks and does a double take when asked why she voted to re-elect President Barack Obama. The reason for her was as natural as ...
Election won't end abortion/contraception debate
Democrats and liberal advocacy groups have declared victory in what they called a Republican "war on women" and are celebrating the pivotal defeats ...
GOP groups taking stock after $380 million loss
Republican-leaning independent groups were supposed to be a key to victory for Mitt Romney. But they ended up being among the big losers of the ...
US targets Iranians blamed for blocking Internet
The Obama administration has imposed financial sanctions against officials and government bodies in Iran that the U.S. blames for jamming satellite ...
Obama's return a test of evolving foreign policy
Phrases to describe some of the looming foreign policy challenges for President Barack Obama didn't even exist when he took the oath of office the ...
Russia hopes for US flexibility on missile shield
Russia expects Barack Obama to show more flexibility in a dispute over U.S. missile defense plans in Europe following his re-election as president, ...
New Faces: Newly elected US senators
A look at the newly elected U.S. senators from Tuesday's election: ARIZONA Republican Jeff Flake, the congressman who won Arizona's open U.S.
Obama wins the way his campaign predicted
In the end, President Barack Obama won re-election exactly the way his campaign had predicted: running up big margins with women and minorities, ...
Obama victory a relief for Latin American left
From Caracas to Havana to La Paz, President Barack Obama's re-election victory was welcomed with a sigh of relief by many on Latin America's left, ...
Nearly 67 million viewers watch election coverage
President Barack Obama's re-election was well watched but wasn't the TV ratings record-breaker his first victory four years proved to be. An estimated ...
Dow loses 313 in post-election sell-off
Wall Street greeted a second Obama term the way it greeted the first. Investors dumped stocks Wednesday in the sharpest sell-off of the year. With the ...
House speaker says he'll consider tax increase
House Speaker John Boehner offered Wednesday to pursue a deal with a newly-re-elected President Barack Obama that would raise taxes "under the right ...
Re-elected, Obama heads back to divided government
One day after a bruising, mixed-verdict election, President Barack Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner both pledged Wednesday to seek a ...
Analysis: Obama, GOP size each other up for deals
The people of a polarized nation just created a government that looks like them, and it sure looks a lot like the dysfunctional one now in place.
GOP asks "why?" and "where do we go from here?"
Having lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections, Republicans plunged Wednesday into an intense period of self-examination, ...
Celebrities air post-election feelings online
Mariah Carey was so excited about President Barack Obama's re-election that she released a new song in his honor. Beyoncé popped up on Instagram with ...
How Obama victory could affect areas of US economy
Upper-income Americans may face a tax increase. Auto fuel economy standards might be raised. Stocks of construction and engineering companies could ...
After defeat, cloudy future ahead for Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney spent the past six years running for president. After his loss to President Barack Obama, he'll have to chart a different course.
Presidential, social votes show changing mindsets
Tuesday's presidential election results showed the American voting public has not only become more permanently diverse in its makeup, but also in its ...
Israeli leader in bind after Obama victory
President Barack Obama's re-election has left Israel's prime minister in a bind. Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly has clashed with Obama and was widely ...
It's a 50-50 nation, give or take
The election laid bare a dual — and dueling — nation, politically speaking, jaggedly split down the middle on the presidency and torn over much else.
The economy Obama faces: Slow but gaining steadily
Some reward. Here's the assignment President Barack Obama has won with his re-election: Improve an economy burdened by high unemployment, stagnant ...