Mitt Romney News

We're about 30 months away from the 2016 Iowa Caucuses , but why not take a look back at the last go-round? Filmmaker A.J. Schnack is doing just that with "Caucus," which is premiering in the U.S. at Washington's AFI Docs festival this week.

Actually, that's not true. They have one; a respected former state senator. They just don't like her.

Mitt Romney certainly thought it was popular, as he purchased airtime for an ad that alleged that President Obama has gutted the law: And some of the numbers seem to suggest this support is justified.

In the midst of negotiations in Congress over an immigration overhaul, House Republicans are planning a series of meetings with Hispanic-Americans in the nation's capital as part of a partywide effort to woo minority voters.

Two years ago, a spat between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner over Planned Parenthood funding sparked a national debate about birth control that helped lead to a historic gender gap in the 2012 elections, with Obama beating Mitt Romney by about 10 points among women voters.

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The controversy swirling around the alleged IRS targeting of conservative groups has placed severe scrutiny on that agency.

The candidate: Republican Tom Emmer , a former state representative who ran an unsuccessful campaign for governor in Minnesota in 2010, now seeking the 6th District.

As far as I can tell, if the Republican were to adopt a platform today, it would have two planks: Opposition to any tax increase and opposition to anything Barack Obama supports.

U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey, who has long touted himself as the driving force behind a $35 million telecom bust in his own hometown, laid the responsibility for the 200-acre boondoggle on five Bay State Republicans and two recessions yesterday when he faced criticism over the project's poor job creation record.

BRADENTON, Fla., Jan. 9, 2011 -- On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Mitt Romney stuck his foot in his mouth so deep that the sole may have irritated his lower intestine.

The saddest "gaffe" is the one that nobody actually bothers to dispute with facts.

"How do you make abortion funny?" That was a key question mulled at a major conservative gathering Friday on how to make social conservatism appealing to young people, after an election where Republicans got trounced in the battle for millennial voters .

The most unusual and interesting line in Julia Ioffe's highly interesting profile of Rand Paul is Paul's confession, "I'm not a firm believer in democracy.

Mitt Romney voters are bigger dog lovers and less likely to be cat fans than President Barack Obama's voters are, a new poll finds.

With a new poll showing Rep. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., pulling away, yet another outside group spot is hitting GOP nominee Gabriel Gomez in the Massachusetts Senate special election.

Greg Mankiw, the former economic adviser to Mitt Romney, is out with a new paper that aims to "defend the 1 percent" and the status quo of income equality in the United States.

Google 's acquisition of Waze hints at decisive digital technology shifts for the next presidential election.

In an impressive if demeaning display of Israel's power to shape America's political destiny, the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte today was forced to adopt a once-discarded platform plank that names Jerusalem as Israel's capital over the objections of thousands of delegates.

There must be moments these days when Mitt Romney sighs with relief knowing that he is not the president and can not be blamed for the IRS or wire tapping or Libya or Syria or what to do about Iran.