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Sniping from within GOP adds to Romney's struggles
Mitt Romney struggled to steady his presidential campaign on Friday, buffeted by an outbreak of sniping among frustrated Republicans, fresh evidence ...
Obama gaining in battleground state contributions
Showing impressive momentum, President Barack Obama raised more in high-dollar contributions than Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney during ...
From words to deeds: Why election matters
When you vote for Democrat Barack Obama or Republican Mitt Romney in November, you'll be voting for more than a president. You'll be casting a ballot ...
Out: Three giant rallies a day. In: Fundraisers
Four years ago, the presidential contenders were packing airplane hangars, city squares and college arenas in a sprint to Election Day. This year, the ...
Obama has more campaign money to spend than Romney
At the end of August, President Barack Obama had about $88.8 million to spend on the final months of the campaign, nearly twice as much as Republican ...
Obama has $88 million to spend in final weeks
President Barack Obama has about $88 million available to spend for the presidential campaign's final stretch, giving him a sizable cash-on-hand ...
Obama suggests Romney is out of touch with America
President Barack Obama cast Mitt Romney on Thursday as an out-of-touch challenger for the White House and an advocate of education cuts that could ...
Pawlenty resigns from Romney campaign to lobby
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has resigned as a national co-chairman of Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign to lobby for Wall Street.
THE RACE: Hard for both sides to focus on economy
For months, all the major polls have identified the economy as the No. 1 presidential election issue. But it drifts in and out of focus on the ...
Checks stolen from Obama campaign headquarters
Three checks for campaign services have been stolen from President Barack Obama's national campaign headquarters in Chicago. Midwest Press Secretary ...
Romney controversy points to power of viral video
After this, politicians everywhere should surely get the message. Mitt Romney's secretly recorded remarks at a Florida fundraiser — and the uproar ...
One new justice could change a lot
The issue: With four justices in their seventies, odds are good that whoever is elected president in November will have a chance to fill at least one ...
Romney's comments ripple across battleground map
Mitt Romney's offhanded comment that as a candidate he doesn't worry about the 47 percent of Americans who pay no income taxes has quickly entered the ...
Romney says he supports '100 percent in America'
Facing tough questions about his commitment to all Americans, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney declared Wednesday that his campaign ...
Romney comments bring battleground-states debate
Mitt Romney's comments about Americans who don't pay income tax sparked discussion across the presidential campaign's battleground states.
In Virginia, rivals for Senate talk up cooperation
Democrat Tim Kaine talks a lot about Republicans — the ones in his family, the ones he's worked with and the ones he hopes will help him bridge the ...
Chavez, challenger aim for youth, women voters
Presidential candidate Henrique Capriles is mobbed at rallies by ecstatic women who press close to touch him and leave scratches on his arms and neck.
Voters sour on economy, but Obama job approval up
Still sour on the state of the U.S. economy, Americans are nonetheless heading into the home stretch to Election Day feeling better about the ...
GOP struggles to parse Romney remarks
Being called "obviously inarticulate" by your running mate isn't something a presidential candidate ever wants to hear. Yet Rep. Paul Ryan was trying ...
Farm-state lawmakers returning home empty-handed
Farm-state members of Congress have campaigned for decades on the back of farm bills delivering election-season subsidies and other goodies to rural ...
Romney keeps relearning history's gaffe lessons
Who says Mitt Romney doesn't worry much about the very poor? That he believes corporations are people, too? That his wife drives two Cadillacs? Romney ...
Obama jabs at Romney over his '47 percent' remarks
President Barack Obama declared Tuesday night the occupant of the Oval Office must "work for everyone, not just for some," jabbing back at Mitt ...
Analysis: Romney sharpens differences with Obama
Republican Mitt Romney, in describing nearly half of Americans as being docile dependents of the state, and saying it's a "foreign concept" for ...