Election News

Biden: Running company not same as leading country

Vice President Joe Biden says the business background that Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney touts on the campaign trail doesn't necessarily make him fit to run a country. (full story)

Obama declares 'new chapter' for US, Myanmar

President Barack Obama is declaring a "new chapter" in U.S. relations with Myanmar, the former pariah state also known as Burma. (full story)

Romney, 'super PAC' reject proposed ad campaign on the Rev. Wright

Mitt Romney said Thursday that he rejected the proposal presented to a GOP "super PAC" that intended to tie President Barack Obama to incendiary comments by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. - a risky approach that former Republican presidential candidate John McCain ruled out when he ran against Obama in 2008. (full story)

Egyptian candidates crisscross the nation

Their faces bob and flutter, catching the light off the Nile, zipping past on buses or on the sides of the motorized rickshaws known as tuk-tuks that buzz through the market dust of poor neighborhoods. (full story)

Super PAC preparing ads tying Obama to pastor

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney sought to distance himself Thursday from a GOP-leaning independent group's plan for a $10 million TV ad campaign renewing attention to President Barack Obama's ties to his controversial former pastor. Obama's campaign accused Romney of failing to show "moral leadership in standing up to the very extreme wing of his own party." (full story)

Billionaire won't air Obama-Wright campaign ads

The billionaire said to be weighing a proposal to resurrect incendiary comments by President Barack Obama's former pastor shelved the idea Thursday after Obama and Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney denounced the tactic. (full story)

Super PAC preparing ads tying Obama to pastor

A super PAC working to defeat President Barack Obama is preparing an ad campaign highlighting Obama's ties to his controversial former pastor. (full story)

Romney, Republican Party raise $40M in April

Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney and his party together raised $40.1 million in April. (full story)

Bain Capital defends record in light of criticism

Facing new attacks from Democrats, the private equity firm Mitt Romney helped create is defending its record. (full story)

Ad attacks Obama health care, tax, debt promises

TITLE: Obama's Promise (full story)

Crossroads GPS fires back at Obama with $25 million ad buy

The 2012 campaign air battle grew more intense Wednesday with the news that Crossroads GPS, the cash-flush conservative advocacy group, is pouring another $25 million into television ads castigating President Barack Obama for "broken" promises. (full story)

Don't bet on Mitt Romney winning in Massachusetts

Don't bet on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney winning his home state or even trying. (full story)

THE RACE: Politics a factor in weekend summits

President Barack Obama is taking a break from active campaigning for a few days to host back-to-back world summits. Yet U.S. presidential politics will be lurking just offstage at both. (full story)

Romney keeps media at bay as he sticks to script

Mitt Romney is trying harder than ever these days to stay on script - and keep his traveling national press corps at arm's length. (full story)

NJ gov., mayor channel Seinfeld in video parody

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and the mayor of New Jersey's largest city are channeling the Seinfeld-Newman rivalry in a video parody that spoofs the mayor's heroics and Christie's vice presidential potential. (full story)

Obama raises $44M for campaign, Dems in April

President Barack Obama raised a combined $43.6 million in April for his campaign and the Democratic Party as he faces a unifying Republican effort around Mitt Romney for the White House. (full story)

Romney inches closer to clinching GOP nomination

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won most of the delegates in the Oregon primary, leaving him 153 delegates shy of the number of delegates needed to win the Republican nomination for president. (full story)

Biden attacks Romney tenure as venture capitalist

Vice President Joe Biden, campaigning in Democratic territory with high unemployment, went after Republican Mitt Romney's business background Wednesday and cast him as a corporate raider more interested in profits than people. (full story)

Role unlikely for George W. Bush in Romney bid

After months of silence, George W. Bush finally weighed on the presidential race - with four short words. (full story)

SPIN METER: Rivals airbrush anti-Romney words

Remember Newt Gingrich calling Mitt Romney a liar? Michele Bachmann saying Romney's unelectable? Rick Santorum calling Romney "the worst Republican in the country" to run against President Barack Obama? (full story)