2012 Elections

Primaries Tuesday in Arkansas and Kentucky follow West Virginia's May 8 primary, in which federal inmate Keith Judd took 41 percent of the vote in the Democratic presidential primary.

The Obama re-election team is distancing the president from comments made by a key surrogate on Tuesday. During a cable television interview Rep. Jim Clyburn, a Democrat from South Carolina, said "There's something about raping companies and leaving them in debt and setting up Swiss bank ac...

Mitt Romney was inching closer to officially claiming the Republican presidential nomination as Arkansas and Kentucky voted in primaries Tuesday.

The Obama campaign's sustained attack on Mitt Romney's Bain Capital record is driving a divide in the Democratic Party, with former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell becoming the latest Obama ally to criticize it as others double down on the strategy. 

President Obama and Former President Bill Clinton will team up next month for yet another joint big dollar fundraiser. But you don't have to be a rich celebrity to attend the New York City event. The campaign is inviting two grassroots supports for as little as 3 dollars!...

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell is declining to renew the endorsement he gave Barack Obama four years ago, when he called Obama "a transformational figure."

President Obama, using the stage Monday of a NATO summit in Chicago, defended his campaign critique of Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital -- accusing his likely Republican rival of "missing what this job is about" by touting his experience at the private equity firm. 

Both President Obama and Mitt Romney saw their fundraising numbers drop in recently. President Obama's re-election campaign raised $25.7 million in April, almost $10 million less than he raised in March....

The NAACP endorsed same-sex marriage Monday calling it one of the key civil rights issues of the day....

President Obama's re-election campaign is keeping up its effort to paint Mitt Romney as a job-destroying corporate raider at Bain Capital. 

Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a surrogate for President Obama's re-election effort, slammed a recent Obama campaign ad on Sunday for its attack on Mitt Romney's tenure at private equity firm Bain Capital.

Rep. Paul Ryan, the House budget committee chairman who has emerged as a top Mitt Romney surrogate and is talked about as a possible running mate, countered the Obama campaign's fresh attack on Romney's record at Bain Capital by citing the government's failed gamble on solar panel firm Solyndra....

CHICAGO -- President Obama arrived in his hometown of Chicago Saturday night looking to collaborate with European allies at the NATO summit on bringing the war in Afghanistan to a close, but the shadow of the Eurozone economic troubles is sure to blanket the talks....