2012 Elections

Budget Battles

  • The Great Debate

    Five Debate Moments that Changed Elections

    By Robert Speel, The Conversation

    Every presidential election year in my American Political Campaigns and Elections course, I get an opportunity to spend a full lecture discussing with students some of the famous moments from...

  • House panel says IRS official waived rights, contempt possible

    Lois Lerner Is Cleared, Sparking Conservative Fury

    By Rob Garver

    Concluding that “poor management is not a crime,” the Justice Department on Friday informed members of Congress that it would not be filing criminal charges against anyone in what has become known as...

  • GOP Leaders Take on Far Right Pressure Groups

    By Eric Pianin

    There have been plenty of theories about why Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) strode onstage at a conservative gathering late last week carrying a rifle. Ostensibly, McConnell, the 72-...

  • Romney: If Hillary Runs, She Won’t Need Bill

    By Thomas Ferraro, Reuters

    Failed 2012 U.S. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said on Sunday he expects Hillary Clinton to win or lose the White House on her record, not that of her husband, former Democratic...

  • Joint Session of Congress

    Voters Give a Thumbs-Down to Their Own Lawmakers

    By Eric Pianin

    In another sign of public outrage over a dysfunctional and politically divided Congress, a record low percentage of registered voters now say their own House member deserves another chance while even...

  • New Trend in Campaign Cash: Text Messaging

    By Reuters

    Small donors may find themselves in higher demand in the last few weeks of the U.S. presidential election, which has so far been marked by the pursuit of big checks, as both campaigns are now asking...

  • The Republican Jobs Plan: Trust Us to Do Better

    By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times

    At this week’s convention, Republicans had two main goals. First was to convince voters that Barack Obama’s policies have been totally ineffectual in curing the economic recession. Second, to...

  • Condi Rice Condemns Leadership 'Failure' by Obama

    By Patricia Zengerle, Reuters

    Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice brought foreign policy clout to the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, condemning what she described as a stark failure of leadership by...

  • Ryan Rallies the Troops—Now It’s Romney’s Turn

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    Paul Ryan stoked the Republican faithful on Tuesday night with an attack on why the Obama presidency that began with such promise faded into disappointment, rallying a crowd at the party’s national...

  • 15 Wacky Questions Obama Skipped on Reddit

    By Yuval Rosenberg

    President Obama took his re-election campaign to Reddit Wednesday, answering questions on the popular Web community where users post and comment on anything from news and politics to cute animal...