By
Amanda Becker, John Gramlich
| Nov. 15, 2012, 6:57 p.m.
Efforts to improve election administration and address the long lines that greeted voters on Election Day shifted to Capitol Hill on Thursday as House and Senate lawmakers unveiled related bills.
By
Eliza Newlin Carney
| Nov. 7, 2012, 5:14 p.m.
It’s been tempting for pundits and analysts to cast Republican super PACs and advocacy organizations as the big losers in this election.
By
Kyle Trygstad
| Nov. 7, 2012, 7:09 a.m.
The 2012 elections will go down as a victory for Democrats, who held the White House and control of the Senate, even as the party appeared likely to pick up only a handful of seats in the House.
By
Steven T. Dennis
| Nov. 7, 2012, 1:07 a.m.
Voters have granted President Barack Obama another four-year term, capping the most expensive and divisive national campaign in memory and ensuring at least two more years of divided government in Washington, D.C.
By
Meredith Shiner
| Nov. 2, 2012, Midnight
If GOP candidate Mitt Romney wins the White House, he is likely to face as much of a challenge as President Barack Obama did in persuading conservative Republicans to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a government default.
By
Sam Goldfarb
| Nov. 2, 2012, Midnight
Mitt Romney has not filled in details of what the tax code would look like if he wins the presidential election, but conservatives in Washington, D.C., are formulating ambitious plans for how to get an overhaul through Congress.
By
Janie Lorber
| Oct. 31, 2012, 4:57 p.m.
Conservative groups are distancing themselves from a Virginia communications firm that appears to be behind a flurry of unsolicited text messages criticizing President Barack Obama that were sent to Washington-area mobile phones in recent days.
By
Eliza Newlin Carney
| Oct. 31, 2012, 12:09 p.m.
With its unrestricted super PACs, wealthy mega-donors, secret money and more than $6 billion projected price tag, this election cycle boasts more unfettered campaign spending than any in recent memory.
By
Niels Lesniewski
| Oct. 30, 2012, 12:42 p.m.
President Barack Obama will stay in Washington, D.C., at least through Wednesday, suspending his re-election campaigning to keep an eye on recovery efforts following Hurricane Sandy.
By
Niels Lesniewski
| Oct. 29, 2012, 3:48 p.m.
Even before Hurricane Sandy made landfall, political observers were analyzing the storm’s effect on the presidential race and on the logistics of the elections along the East Coast.
Morton M. Kondracke
| Oct. 29, 2012, 1:22 p.m.
Four years ago we had just one “Rorschach candidate” for president, with millions voting for Barack Obama, seeing in him their kind of leader. This year, we’ve got two. Obama or Mitt Romney — it’s a vote shot into the dark.
By
Niels Lesniewski
| Oct. 29, 2012, 10:43 a.m.
One of Washington’s favorite parlor games is conjecturing about the remote possibility of an Electoral College tie. Prognosticators have come up with various maps and scenarios under which the election would result in a 269-269 deadlock, which would vest the responsibility of choosing the country’s leaders squarely in what polls say is one of the least popular institutions in the country — Congress.
By
Niels Lesniewski
| Oct. 28, 2012, 2:11 p.m.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is dispensing with conventional wisdom and predicting an Electoral College landslide for GOP nominee Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential contest. But he’s leaving the door open for his own White House run as early as 2016.
By
Steven T. Dennis
| Oct. 24, 2012, 6:22 p.m.
Mitt Romney’s campaign is dismissing President Barack Obama’s plans to push for an immigration overhaul next year as merely a repeat of a broken promise from 2008.
By
Janie Lorber
| Oct. 24, 2012, 3:33 p.m.
President Barack Obama appears to have wildly outraised his Republican opponent among text message donors, capitalizing on the newly approved digital fundraising option.
By
Steven T. Dennis
| Oct. 24, 2012, 12:37 p.m.
The Des Moines Register today released a previously off-the-record interview with President Barack Obama in which he gave his frankest answers to date on his second-term agenda, including breakthroughs on a “grand bargain” on the deficit and on immigration reform next year.
By
Emily Cahn
| Oct. 23, 2012, 10:33 p.m.
CNN anchor Candy Crowley spoke candidly about her role as the moderator of the second presidential debate during a panel discussion at the Newseum on Tuesday night and defended her fact-checking moment during the 90-minute exchange between President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
By
Steven T. Dennis
| Oct. 23, 2012, 2:32 p.m.
With Election Day just two weeks away, President Barack Obama repackaged his agenda for the next few years while campaign manager Jim Messina and adviser David Axelrod touted their ground game and lead in early voting.
Emily Cadei
| Oct. 23, 2012, 1:04 a.m.
President Barack Obama used the final presidential debate Monday night to hit back aggressively against claims that his budget will gut the U.S. military, something the Republican Party has been using as a political cudgel against him all year.
Steven T. Dennis and Emily Cadei
| Oct. 23, 2012, 12:43 a.m.
President Barack Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney faced off in a sharp final debate Monday night in Boca Raton, Fla., trading barbs over foreign affairs while repeatedly returning to the issue atop voters’ minds — the economy.
