2012

Former Republican presidential candidate New Gingrich lashed out Karl Rove on Sunday over the suggestion that Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) could be murdered to prevent Republicans from losing the Senate race in Missouri.

Senior Romney campaign adviser Eric Fehrnstrom on Sunday defended his boss for not thanking U.S. troops or even mentioning the war in Afghanistan while accepting the Republican presidential nomination during the GOP convention on Thursday.

Matthew Dowd, President George W. Bush’s former chief strategist, on Sunday said that Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan "so stretched the truth" during his convention speech by suggesting that President Barack Obama was responsible for a GM plant that closed before he took office.

After a week of watching the Republican National Convention, the Democratic convention chair has decided that the GOP 2012 platform looks more like the "platform of 1812."

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has launched an investigation into whether some large private equity firms—among them Bain Capital, the firm founded by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney—took advantage of a tax loophole to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes.

Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday made the false claim that the Democratic Party had a 60-vote majority for two years after President Barack Obama took office.

One is black, the other white. One was born into wealth, the other came from a working class family in Chicago, and as with the two presidential candidates, their wives -- Ann Romney and First Lady Michelle Obama -- provide a stark study in contrasts.

President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney derided each other's record on job creation Saturday as they made a fresh push through key battleground states.

Anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly has taken to her blog at the website of the Eagle Forum -- the anti-LGBT organization that she founded in 1972 -- to call for the resignation of Republican political operative Karl Rove over remarks he made about U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO).  Thursday morning at a fundraiser for his super PAC, American Crossroads, Rove reportedly said of Akin, whose remarks on rape and pregnancy have made him notorious in recent weeks, "“We should sink Todd Akin.  If he’s found mysteriously murdered, don’t look for my whereabouts!”

Vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has been forced to admit that he lied in an interview with conservative columnist Hugh Hewitt when he said that he once completed a marathon in under three hours.  According to Huffington Post, Ryan's campaign has admitted to Runner's World magazine that the congressman's claim to have finished a marathon in "two hours and fifty-something" minutes was a fabrication.

Although Mitt Romney's determination to campaign for president on his record as a businessman has led both his supporters and his detractors to suggest that if elected, he would attempt to run the country like a business, Romney's own understanding of the presidential role has never been entirely clear,

NEW ORLEANS — Two vans in Mitt Romney's motorcade were involved in a minor collision Friday after the Republican nominee reviewed storm damage near New Orleans, but his vehicle was not involved.