2012 Presidential Election News

Democrats are deeply divided over President Barack Obama's new rule that religious schools and hospitals must provide insurance for free birth control to their employees amid fresh signs that the administration was scrambling for a way out.

The top Republican in the U.S. Congress have denounced President Barack Obama's new rule on contraceptives as an assault on "religious freedom" and vowed to overturn it, as the White House sought to prevent the issue from becoming an election-year liability.

Fresh off his hat trick in Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri, former Pennsylvania Sen.

President Obama's re-election campaign ran more than 5,000 TV ads in six days last month, its first major advertising blitz of the 2012 cycle, according to a new report by the Wesleyan Media Project.

Karl Rove said he was offended by Chrysler's Clint Eastwood halftime Super Bowl ad and other Republicans grumbled that the ad subtly promoted the interests of President Obama, who has made the bailout and the seeming resurgence of the U.S. car industry a major economic sales pitch for his re-election. But Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker ... (more)

Republican Rick Santorum is looking to capitalize on a string of stunning victories that snapped his four-state losing streak and raised new questions about front-runner Mitt Romney's clout with conservatives.

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President Obama is drawing strength from an unexpected area as he girds for his re-election campaign, benefiting from military and anti-terrorism policies that have been controversial in some quarters, but are broadly popular with the public overall.

In a reversal, President Obama is embracing the big-money fund-raising groups he assailed as a "threat to democracy" on the grounds they let money corrode elections.

Deja vu, round two, a bad sequel or simply "here we go again" are some ways to describe the latest fight over extending the payroll tax cut.

Johansson, dressed in a black-and-sheer Stella McCartney frock, lent her own glamour quotient Tuesday to a launch party for Runway to Win, a fundraising initiative from the fashion world.

A high-ranking official resigned from the Komen breast-cancer charity after its backtracking treaty with Planned Parenthood, and Republican presidential candidates blistered the Obama administration for a recent ruling on Catholic hospitals and contraception.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed $80 million in new government funding for a program to boost science and math education in U.S. schools.

At a New York fund-raising event Tuesday called "Runway to Win," President Barack Obama's re-election campaign plans to begin selling campaign-themed tote bags, T-shirts and accessories designed by more than two dozen famous designers.

Republican presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks at The Cable Center in Denver, Monday, Feb.

Public frustration regarding the government and the state of the U.S. economy has eased slightly from summer and fall levels -- but it's still plenty hot in the kitchen.

In a conference call with members of President Obama's 2012 re-election committee Monday evening, campaign manager Jim Messina announced that donors should start funding Priorities USA, the Democratic super PAC run by two former White House staffers, Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney.

President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is returning more than $200,000 in donations from the family of a fugitive casino magnate linked to violence and corruption in Mexico who has been seeking a pardon, Obama's campaign confirmed on Tuesday.

Although the White House will not confirm the claim, several sources outside the administration familiar with the process tell Metro Weekly that a proposed expansion of the federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order to include sexual orientation and gender identity has been given the OK by both the Labor Department, which oversees federal ... (more)

Anyone waking up from under a rock for the past few years might be understandably stunned to see the latest bitter debate that's dividing the United States of America, decades after the sexual revolution was fought and won by millions of bra-burning women.