Politics

Vice President Joe Biden, asked about the Times/Jeremiah Wright story on the stump today, said this: "I think guys like that so misunderstand the state of the nation they act like its 1942 or something. I mean think the public is so so far beyo...

Mitt Romney, in an interview with Townhall.com that is set to air on Hugh Hewitt's radio show, made his first comments on the Times story on the Joe Ricketts-funded super PAC that is considering a Rev. Jeremiah Wright attack ad strategy in the fall...

While the Americans Elect effort has clearly failed to catch on, and Ron Paul-as-third-party-hopeful disappears as fantasy, it leaves Gary Johnson as the lone candidate taking votes away from either President Obama or Mitt Romney. The PPP poll in New ...

...at least in this Web video, which the New Jersey governor and the Newark mayor, who are political friends, made for the state's Press Association Legislative Correspondents Club show tonight. Christie mocks the questions he gets about becoming ...

Jason Clausen, a Mason City, Iowa, man featured in Mitt Romney's new video featuring unemployed people has a lengthy rap sheet and served ten days in jail for "assault on a peace officer," public records show. Clause is seen in the video...

Mitt Romney has sought to push a wedge between Bill Clinton and President Obama, who are working fairly closely together for the re-election effort after the bitter 2008 Democratic primary, went there again today in his speech in Iowa, according to his...

Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, who's facing a GOP primary challenge from Dan Liljenquist in a race that's getting a close watch after the defeat of Dick Lugar, is set to start airing his first ads of the primary this week, a media-buying source confirm...

CBS News reports: Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has a slight edge over President Obama in the race for the White House in the latest CBS News/New York Times poll. According to the survey, conducted May 11-13, 46 percen...

Mitt Romney has said little about the $2 billion loss that JP Morgan revealed late last week, other than this statement from his campaign: "JP Morgan's reported $2 billion trading loss demonstrates the importance of oversight and transpare...

George Allen, the former Virginia senator who's hoping to become one again, will appear at the Monday Meeting confab in New York City tomorrow evening as a late addition, according to the invitation. He will "talk about his battleground Senat...

Gay marriage dominated much of the Sunday shows - and the rest was covered by the JP Morgan $2 billion in losses revealed late last week - with outgoing Rep. Barney Frank, one of congress's openly gay members, predicting President Obama's comme...

David Sanger dives into the well of Mitt Romney's foreign policy circle, and discovers divisions among the different advisers, with the views of a group involving John Bolton and neoconservatives tending to rule the day in terms of his public prono...