Election 2012 - The Week

The Obama Campaign 15 desperate emails and texts from the Obama campaign

Did you hear you can win an evening with President Obama, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Anna Wintour? If you're on Obama's mailing list, there's no escaping the news

Obama vs Romney

45%

43%

Job approval: Congress

15%

Rob Portman to be GOP VP nominee:

21%

Safe candidate, happy dog — and more revealing moments on the trail

A campaign rally in Virginia: Between the questionable attacks on Bain and a wobbly performance in the fundraising race, Team Obama may be off to a rough start.

The Obama Campaign

Is Obama's reelection campaign already stumbling?

Politico says Obama's vaunted political operation has committed some uncharacteristic blunders, giving the early advantage to Romney

May 25, 2012, at 3:36 PM

How voters react to signs of danger can influence which party they prefer.

2012 Elections

Why you vote the way you do

Genes play a role, says Jonathan Haidt, but your political outlook is also determined by six moral values

May 25, 2012, at 10:32 AM

If you ever get the feeling that President Obama and his fundraising cohorts are all too eager to dine with you, you're not alone.

The Obama Campaign

15 desperate emails and texts from the Obama campaign

Did you hear you can win an evening with President Obama, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Anna Wintour? If you're on Obama's mailing list, there's no escaping the news

May 25, 2012, at 10:15 AM

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell with President Obama in the Oval Office in December 2010. Powell doesn't seem prepared to make an endorsement for either candidate this year, but does his support even matter?

2012 Presidential Race

Romney vs. Obama: Whose side is Colin Powell on?

The moderate Republican famously backed Barack Obama in 2008, but this year, so far, he has shied away from endorsing the president — or the GOP nominee

May 25, 2012, at 7:10 AM

Mitt Romney during his 1994 Senate run: The GOP candidate worked at Bain Capital from 1984 until 1999, during which time the company helped Staples and Sports Authority get their starts.

The Romney Campaign

4 good things Bain Capital did on Mitt Romney's watch

Democrats say the GOP presidential hopeful plundered companies and destroyed jobs. But what about Romney's private-equity successes?

May 24, 2012, at 1:10 PM

The Left is eating up parallels between Batman's latest nemesis Bane and Bain Capital, the private equity firm Mitt Romney once ran.

The Romney Campaign

Bane vs. Bain Capital: The Dark Knight Rises' Mitt Romney connection

The upcoming Batman flick's new villain and the controversial company Mitt founded share more than a similar-sounding name

May 23, 2012, at 2:44 PM

Mitt Romney has yet to settle on a consistent message to rebut President Obama's claims that Bain Capital is a job-killing, profit-maximizing vehicle that benefits investors, not workers.

The Romney Campaign

3 ways Mitt Romney can beat back attacks on Bain

While Team Obama hits Bain again and again, Romney struggles to develop a cogent strategy for neutralizing criticism of his former company

May 23, 2012, at 11:58 AM

Mitt Romney's upbeat new ad, promising tax cuts, will run in swing states Iowa, Ohio, North Carolina, and Virginia.

The Romney Campaign

Anatomy of a campaign ad: 'Day One'

Mitt Romney tries to deflect attention from his tenure at Bain Capital with an "upbeat and statesmanlike" ad outlining the first initiatives of a Romney administration

May 23, 2012, at 10:19 AM

A White House press briefing in 2010: President Obama wouldn't risk switching vice presidents to potentially improve his chances of re-election because the move could alienate voters, who typically don't respond well to overt political plays.

The Obama Campaign

5 reasons the Clinton-Biden switcheroo will never happen

The rumor that President Obama will dump Joe Biden from his ticket for Hillary Clinton just won't die. Here's why it should

May 23, 2012, at 7:00 AM

"This is not a distraction," President Obama said of Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital. "This is what this campaign is going to be about."

The Obama Campaign

Will Obama's attacks on Bain Capital backfire?

The president is taking a lot of heat for his campaign's assault on the private equity firm founded by Mitt Romney, and even some Democratic allies are uneasy

May 22, 2012, at 3:20 PM

The Obama Campaign

Edward Morrissey: The Catholic mega-lawsuit is a 2012 nightmare for Obama

Dozens of religious organizations sue the administration over a contraception mandate. Not exactly what the president was hoping for heading into November

May 22, 2012, at 10:10 AM

President Obama with Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick at a campaign fundraising event in Boston: Obama's opponent Mitt Romney and the groups backing the GOP candidate have outraised Obama $402 million to $340 million.

Campaign Spending

Who's winning the 2012 presidential money race?

The assumption was that Obama would have a big fundraising advantage over Romney, but GOP-friendly super PACs are proving prognosticators wrong

May 22, 2012, at 9:15 AM

Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital has become the go-to focus of Team Obama's attack ads.

2012 Presidential Race

Attacking Mitt Romney's Bain Capital: Fair game?

Obama is relentlessly going after the private equity firm founded by his GOP challenger, and some say the Democrat's punches are hitting below the belt

May 21, 2012, at 3:35 PM

The Romney Campaign

Robert Shrum: Bain is just chapter one in the Book of Romney

Republicans are desperate to declare Obama's attacks on Mitt's business background off-limits. But in the life of Romney, vulture capitalism is an inescapable theme

May 21, 2012, at 12:00 PM

Hawaii has received so many requests for President Obama's birth certificate that it passed a law in 2010 essentially exempting Obama from the state's public-records rules.

The Obama Campaign

Will Arizona keep President Obama off the 2012 ballot?

Arizona's secretary of state insists that he's not a birther... while simultaneously threatening to bar Obama from the November ballot over birth certificate suspicions

May 21, 2012, at 10:25 AM