Politics

We reported yesterday that Mitt Romney was going up on TV with his first spot of the general election. This morning, the Romney camp unveiled an ad asking voters to imagine "Day 1" of a Romney presidency and specifically mentioning health car...

Mitt Romney's campaign is about to go up with its first television ads of the general election, multiple sources say. A GOP source confirms Romney has booked airtime in Ohio, Iowa, Virginia and North Carolina spanning May 18 to May 22. Romney ind...

The Republican media firm that proposed to run commercials linking President Barack Obama to his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, downplayed the advertising plan in a statement as merely "one proposal" that had been raised for possible 2012 TV...

The New York Times reports this morning on a proposal, under consideration by the financier of the Ending Spending super PAC, to go nuclear against President Obama in ways no mainstream Republican has: The plan, which is awaiting approval, calls fo...

The big headline out of Nebraska last night is state Sen. Deb Fischer’s victory in the GOP Senate primary, in which she upset two better-known candidates to claim the Republican nomination in the open-seat race. The story of the Republican prima...

The group Americans Elect, which has been obtaining access to state ballots for a to-be-determined independent presidential candidate, admitted in a statement overnight that it has failed to produce a ticket for 2012. AE isn't explicitly saying tha...

I'm a little late to posting this one, but this comment in Newsweek by Susana Martinez is drawing a lot of attention as a sign of the New Mexico governor wading into the thick of one of 2012's critical issue debates: As we sit down at a loc...

I noted earlier that the Obama campaign's ad targeting Mitt Romney's Bain Capital record appeared only to be running for one day -- this Wednesday, Now, a GOP source sends over more detailed information on the buy, which amounts to just $71,00...

Gallup has a poll out this morning showing a majority of Americans consider homosexuality “morally acceptable,” with 50 percent supporting the legalization of same-sex marriage. A number that jumps out from the details of the poll is the g...

Colorado Rep. Doug Lamborn is the one of the next Republican incumbents facing a competitive primary challenge, and this weekend the GOP lawmaker is opening up a double-barreled assault on opponent Robert Blaha. Lamborn is going on the air Saturday wi...

Or at least, that's what this statement from the Romney campaign would seem to indicate: Newt Gingrich has brought creativity and intellectual vitality to American political life.  During the course of this campaign, Newt demonstrated both...

In an interview last night with Fox News's Bret Baier, the Florida senator fielded a series of questions about three of the top known issues that could snag him in VP vetting: how he used his Republican Party of Florida credit card, his friendship ...