2012

Opponents are calling a Democratic super PAC in Florida shocking and even racist for its cartoonish depiction of Rep. Allen West (R-FL) punching an elderly white woman and laughing as he steals money from a black family.

PUEBLO, Colorado — US President Barack Obama tried to put his Republican foe Mitt Romney on the defensive Thursday, accusing him of wanting to end tax credits for the wind energy industry and put at risk 37,000 jobs.

WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney will soon announce the biggest decision of his presidential campaign -- the name of his running mate -- and, like a traveler in a lonely wood, the Republican can go one of two ways.

An electronic road sign near the Mormon church's Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah shocked motorist on Wednesday with the message "God Hates Gays."

Appearing on CNN Wednesday night, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) admitted "we have no proof" to support the most recent attack at by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney hitting President Barack Obama for supposedly scrapping a welfare work rule.

Most of Mitt Romney's newest Twitter followers are fake, according to an investigation of bogus social media accounts.

Conservative columnist Ann Coulter on Wednesday said that President Barack Obama was campaigning with women's rights activist Sandra Fluke because his base was "stupid single women."

The group of Catholic Sisters who gained international attention for their "Nuns on the Bus" tour have invited Mitt Romney to spend a day with them to learn about the needs of struggling families.

DENVER, Colorado — US President Barack Obama reopened a culture war battle over contraception Wednesday, saying Mitt Romney's Republicans would take women's preventive health care back to the 1950s.

Rep. Steve King (R-IA), a favorite among tea party Republicans, told an audience on Tuesday that he would like to introduce a bill that, once enacted, would nullify every single law President Barack Obama has signed over the last three years.

A spokesperson for presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Wednesday shocked conservatives by suggesting that a woman whose husband was laid off from a Bain Capital-owned plant would have lived if she had been covered by a health care law similar to President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act.

In what may be a first for U.S. presidential campaign advertisements, actress Elizabeth Banks is warning that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney would strip Planned Parenthood of funding and prevent some women from receiving treatment for conditions like migraines and "a heavy flow."

Fox News contributor Dick Morris on Wednesday said that former President Jimmy Carter's scheduled speech at the Democratic National Convention proved that President Barack Obama's party would invite the man whose social theories resulted in the Marxism movement.