2012 Presidential Election News

White House press secretary Jay Carney listens to a question Dec. 14, 2012, during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington.

The federal government has given the job of compiling statistics used by the State Department to analyze trends in global terrorism to an academic group, a move that may complicate accurate unclassified assessments of patterns of terrorist activity for years to come.

Summoned by Congress, a key figure in the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups plans to invoke her constitutional right against self-incrimination and decline to testify at a congressional hearing on Wednesday.

President Obama has formally appointed the ten members of a special commission designed to look for improvements in U.S. election systems.

With the White House already reeling from three major controversies, some Republican lawmakers are zeroing in on what they perceive is another possible scandal tied to President Barack Obama's landmark health reform law just as it nears implementation.

His latest legislative achievements put him in the vanguard of his party's liberal base.

Last week, the Obama White House finally was exposed to Americans on both the left and right as the abusive and arrogant administration that it is.

Virginia gubernatorial candidate and current Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, center, visits the Roanoke Regional Airport on Monday, May 20, 2013, with fellow Republican candidates E. W. Jackson, right, who is running for lieutenant governor, and Mark Obenshain, left, the party's candidate for attorney General.

What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity.

Jim Graves, the DFLer who is again challenging U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann in the 2014 election, issued the results of a Public Policy Polling survey showing him with a 2 percentage-point lead over Bachmann, 47-45 if the election had been held May 15, 2013, the day of the survey.

It's been a tough couple of weeks for the Obama administration. Whether it is lingering doubts about Benghazi or Fast and Furious, the IRS playing favorites for 18 months, the U.S. Marshal's Service losing a couple of terrorists, unanswered questions about the nominee to lead the EPA or the Department of Justice illegally seizing AP phone records, ... (more)

Ira Forman, who led President Obama's reelection campaign in the Jewish community, was appointed as the State Department's envoy to combat anti-Semitism. US Secretary of State Kerry made the announcement as he released the 2012 International Religious Freedom Report.

Over the last couple weeks, we've been talking about the 2014 House election, and in particular, which members might be especially vulnerable.

Compared to many other states in the country, Missouri has a high concentration of racist, homophobic tweets that include offensive, hateful language.

President Bill Clinton walks to the White House Rose Garden to deliver a statement on the impeachment inquiry on Dec.

It is a simple fact of American politics that power starts to fade away from a second-term president almost from the moment they are sworn in.

Is the tea party getting its groove back? Shouts of vindication from around the country suggest the movement's leaders certainly think so.

This week, scandal fever engulfed cable news, radio, and Republican dinner tables across the country, as the GOP embarked on all-out crusade against President Obama over Benghazi, IRS political targeting, DOJ hacking AP phones, and yes, the President asking for an umbrella on a rainy day .

President Barack Obama, in a soaring commencement address on work, sacrifice and opportunity, on Sunday told graduates of historically black Morehouse College to seize the power of their example as black men graduating from college and use it to improve people's lives.

I celebrated another birthday this past week, and as always I reflected on the past, present and future of what I do covering and analyzing politics.