2012 Presidential Election News

The task of the 10-member commission is to "to identify non-partisan ways to shorten lines at polling places, promote the efficient conduct of elections, and provide better access to the polls for all voters," according to a commission press release.

Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio violated the constitutional rights of Latino drivers in his crackdown on illegal immigration, a federal judge found on Friday, and ordered him to stop using race as a factor in law enforcement decisions.

As President Obama rallied support for federal health care legislation at a Labor Day picnic in 2009, he told labor unions and the public that they could keep the health insurance they had, if they liked it.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland arrives to listen to Secretary of State John Kerry and Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida speak to the press at the State Department in Washington on Feb.

When it was disclosed to the public that the IRS had engaged in a systematic effort to intimidate, harass, and stall Tea Party groups and other conservatives that sought tax exempt status from 2010 to 2012, the question immediately arose as to what effect, if any, such a tactic had on the 2012 presidential election.

The cheering crowds that helped vault him into a second term in the White House mean little, if anything, back in Washington.

After almost a month of saying she had yet to decide her political plans, Llodra on Thursday let Republican leaders know she and fellow Republican Selectman William Rodgers will seek another term.

Kimberly Strassel has a must-read column at the Wall Street Journal today that explains the context in which the IRS scandal emerged--not just during the Obama administration's attempt to quash the Tea Party, but in Obama's efforts to shut down all opposition, both Republican and Democratic, in the 2008 campaign.

"It's all incremental," Bulger told Postmedia News this week in the wake of Duffy's forced exit from the Conservative caucus and the firestorm of controversy that continues to burn.

Hillary Clinton sits at the top of the pack in a new poll of Iowa voters, but her closest competition is firebrand Republican Sen.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says that 80 percent of his state's shore will look the same this year as it did last year despite being walloped by Superstorm Sandy.

7, 2009, file photo President Barack Obama speaks at the AFL-CIO Labor Day picnic at Coney Island in Cincinnati.

Ohio's elections chief has wrapped up a review by county election boards across the swing state into allegations of voter fraud during the 2012 presidential election.

This past legislative session, lawmakers worked to make massive changes to the election law to avoid major issues at the polls.

President Barack Obama's nominee for commerce secretary was questioned briefly about her ties to a subprime mortgage lender that failed in 2001 and her role as a beneficiary of family offshore trusts in the Bahamas, but those were minor bumps in an otherwise smooth Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

The Republican leaders of the House of Representatives are pledging to act to fix the nation's immigration system but making clear that they will not simply accept legislation passed by the Senate.

Every day brings new revelations about who knew what about the IRS targeting conservative groups during President Obama's re-election campaign, but the overall impression is of a vast federal bureaucracy run amok.

Barack Obama will renew his failed vow to close Guantanamo Bay and argue his drone war is legal and just.

President Obama speaks at Ellicott Dredges in Baltimore on May 17. The trip followed a visit by the company's president to Capitol Hill to testify in support of the Keystone XL pipeline.

President Obama will nominate former campaign official Katherine Archuleta as director of the Office of Personnel Management on Thursday, according to a White House official.