U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Barack Obama won re-election to a second term in the White House on Tuesday, television networks projected, beating...
African American voters. PHOTO/John Gress/Getty Images (Reuters) – After a long and bitter White House campaign, Americans began casting their votes on Tuesday with polls showing...
By Ryan Elcock If you have been following the US 2012 election, you will agree that this one has been the most contentious since the Bush-Gore...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File With just one day remaining in the 2012 race for president, the polling picture...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney engaged in a frenzied cross-country blitz...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) accompanied by N.J Gov. Chris Christie (l) hugs storm victim Donna Vanzant as he tours damage done by Hurricane Sandy in...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama put campaign battleground travel on hold to tour the ravaged New...
U.S. President Barack Obama with officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). PHOTO/Nicholas Kramm/AFP/Getty Images The politics of Hurricane Sandy are obviously difficult to game...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is poised to eke out a victory in the race for...
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell meets with President Barack Obama, in the Oval Office. PHOTO/AP Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a longtime Republican, is...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney Election 2012, 13 days until the election day, President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney in...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – In today’s highly polarized political environment it is somewhat surprising to find...
U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Barack Obama still appears to have the upper hand in the state-by-state...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney With one debate left, President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney are retreating from the...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File With fewer than three weeks until Election Day, new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls...
African American voters. PHOTO/John Gress/Getty Images Tough new election laws aimed at forcing voters in many states to show photo identification at polling places have been...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) speaks as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (l) and moderator Candy Crowley (c) listen during a town hall style debate at...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney With the White House race barreling toward the finish, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney As President Obama and Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney gear up for the season’s second...
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (l) and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Paul Ryan pull up a couple of chairs...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney Mitt Romney got a poll boost from his strong debate performance against President Barack Obama...
Job applicants fill out applications for positions at a new bar and restaurant in Detroit. PHOTO/Paul Sancya/AP The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent last...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney have sparred over economic...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney come face to face for the first...
African American voters in Maryland. PHOTO/Rich Vary/NewsHour Just five weeks before the November general election, a Pennsylvania judge reversed himself and blocked the state’s strict voter...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are hunkering down for intense preparations ahead...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP Five weeks to U.S. Election Day, President Barack Obama is within reach of the...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama warned Democrats about becoming too complacent with six weeks left before...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File Dozens of volunteers armed with clipboards and voter registration forms gather at President Barack...
The Congressional Black Caucus held a series of events throughout the country on Tuesday to educate communities on voter suppression laws and to help ensure eligible...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney 53%-44% in Florida, 53%-43% in Ohio and 54%-42%...
African American voters in Maryland. PHOTO/Rich Vary/NewsHour South Carolina is in federal court arguing that its new law requiring people prove their identity at the polls...
U.S. President Barack Obama on the campaign trail earlier this year. PHOTO/File In a presidential race seemingly frozen in place for months, the advantage has shifted...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP Fresh signs of a national housing rebound and growing support in public opinion polls...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama has emerged from the conventions of both political parties with a...
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File Already scrambling to steady a struggling campaign, Republican Mitt Romney confronted a new headache Monday after a video surfaced showing...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File Competing for white working-class voters, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney squared off...
African American voters in Maryland. PHOTO/Rich Vary/NewsHour Florida’s attempt to screen voter rolls for non-U.S. citizens is yielding a smaller number than state officials had anticipated....
African American voters in Maryland. PHOTO/Rich Vary/NewsHour As many as 700,000 minority voters under age 30 may be unable to cast a ballot in November because...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama and Democrats pulled slightly ahead of Mitt Romney and Republicans in...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, picking up support following the Democratic National Convention, widened...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney agree on this much: The 2012 election is...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) joins former President Bill Clinton, after nominating speech. PHOTO/J. Scott Applewhite/AP President Barack Obama goes before the Democratic National Convention and...
In June this year, I made the sanguine prediction that Obama would keep his job as America’s president for a second term. This prognosis was based...
U.S. President Barack Obama looks at cars at the DC Auto Show at the Convention Center, January 31, 2012 on Washington, DC. PHOTO/Olivier Douliery/UPI America’s big...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File Democrats sought to push foreign policy, one of President Barack Obama’s strengths, to the...
African American voters in Maryland. PHOTO/Rich Vary/NewsHour A federal judge in Ohio on Friday granted a request from President Barack Obama’s campaign to give all voters...
President Obama talks with students after he called on Congress to stop interest rates on student loans on June 21, 2012. PHOTO/Susan Walsh/AP As college students...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama said Mitt Romney has locked himself into “extreme positions” on economic...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File (PRNewswire) — With many citing the economy as the most important issue for the...
Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love speaks at the Republican state convention, Saturday, April 21, 2012 in Sandy, Utah. PHOTO/Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune/AP Photo Utah congressional...
A group of black journalists says it is disappointed in the lack of ethnic diversity among the people chosen to moderate presidential debates. The National Association...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP (Reuters) – Twice as many business executives around the world say the global economy...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama can claim victory over Mitt Romney in the digital arena at...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama’s campaign is already targeting Paul Ryan in a new online video,...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama’s campaign says Mitt Romney’s selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/AP Two states that Barack Obama won in 2008 – after going for former...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama holds an advantage over Republican Mitt Romney in three swing...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/AP Former President Bill Clinton will have a marquee role in this summer’s Democratic...
African American voters in Maryland. PHOTO/Rich Vary/NewsHour An election official in Pennsylvania has said that he will not enforce the state’s voter I.D. law. Christopher Broach,...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/AP (Reuters) – Sustained attacks by President Barack Obama’s campaign on Republican rival Mitt...
President Barack Obama at Prime Osborn Convention Center on July 19, 2012 in Jacksonville, Florida. PHOTO/Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images President Barack Obama is warning Florida retirees that...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama is trying to keep the pressure on rival Mitt Romney,...
Christopher Smith, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering, looks at stem cell samples through an inverted microscope in a lab at the Johns Hopkins University. PHOTO/Patrick...
African American voters. PHOTO/Lynne Sladky/AP (Reuters) – High voter turnout among African Americans helped get President Barack Obama elected in 2008 but a black rights group...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is preparing to tell voters in the crucial industrial state...
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden addresses the NAACP annual convention, Thursday, July 12, 2012. PHOTO/Pat Sullivan/AP President Barack Obama has asked The National Association for the...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s slim lead over Republican rival Mitt Romney in...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File Seeking an election-year fight over taxes, President Barack Obama is hitting the road...
Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll. PHOTO/Devon Ravine/AP Women are being considered as possible candidates to run with Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on the November ballot,...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File For the first time since April, President Obama has opened up a sustained...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File In the presidential battleground with the biggest prize, Democrat Barack Obama is focused...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Barack Obama is carving out a clear lead in swing...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File President Obama leads 47 percent to 44 percent over Mitt Romney in an...
U.S. President Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File President Barack Obama’s not-so-secret counterterrorism fight against al-Qaida in Yemen and Somalia, the killing...
U.S. President Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is winning the opening round in the battle over immigration, according...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate., Mitt Romney There’s not much President Barack Obama can do to boost the economy in the next...
A growing chorus of once-confident Democrats now say President Barack Obama could lose the November election. The hand-wringing reflects real worries among Democrats about Obama’s ability...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney(r). PHOTO/File A new North Carolina poll conducted by the automated pollster (and Democratic affiliated) Public...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama’s campaign is launching a new ad against Republican challenger Mitt Romney,...
President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama will talk about the nation’s economic woes in remarks at the White House Friday. The White House says President...
U.S. President Barack Obama reaches out to supporters on June 13, 2011 in Miami, Florida. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party have raised a...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l), and Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney(r). PHOTO/File A new survey indicates President Barack Obama with a 12-point lead over Republican challenger...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to a supporter. PHOTO/J. Scott Applewhite/AP When President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign unveiled its new slogan, some conservative critics were quick...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File To see where the presidential candidates stand on taxing the rich, just look...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File President Barack Obama’s campaign is opening a new critique of Mitt Romney, focusing...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File A new poll released Tuesday shows President Barack Obama with a wide lead...
Mitt Romney’s campaign team has been quietly laying plans for an outreach effort to President Obama’s most loyal supporters, black voters, not just to chip away...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney President Barack Obama on Thursday continued his assault on Mitt Romney’s business experience, saying the...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign is beginning to express some confidence that the president’s historic,...
The state of Hawaii has verified President Barack Obama’s birth records to Arizona’s elections chief after a nearly three-month back and forth that Arizona officials said...
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell meets with President Barack Obama, in the Oval Office. PHOTO/AP Former Secretary of State Colin Powell declined Tuesday to renew...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign is keeping up its effort to paint Mitt Romney...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney President Barack Obama holds a cash advantage of more than 2-to-1 over Republican challenger Mitt...
President Barack Obama on the campaign trail. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama raised a combined US$43.6 million in April for his campaign and the Democratic Party as...
President Barack Obama is casting Mitt Romney as a greedy, job-killing corporate titan with little concern for the working class in a new, multi-pronged effort that...
President Barack Obama with troops in Afghanistan. PHOTO/United States Military, via Associated Press (Reuters) – Mack McDowell likes to spend time at the local knife and...
George Clooney and President Barack Obama. PHOTO/Christy Bowe/Landmark Media President Obama’s decision to go public in support of same-sex marriage marked a historic moment for the...
President Barack Obama speaks Tuesday in Washington. PHOTO/Evan Vucci/AP Ending months of equivocation, President Barack Obama declared his support for gay marriage on Wednesday, an announcement...
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama extended his lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney to 7 percentage points because of increased support from independent voters and some...
U.S. President Obama (l) and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File It’s on. Independent groups favoring Mitt Romney already are launching TV advertisements in competitive states...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File After watching the Republican candidates lock the kryptonite that is the immigration issue around their necks during the Arizona debate, the...
The overall jobless rate fell for the fifth straight month to 8.3 percent after a surge of hiring. Monthly jobs report featuring mixed results are becoming...
President Obama’s re-election team is already aggressively targeting former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, even as Romney is far from sealing the GOP nomination. Here’s a look...
