2012

WASHINGTON — The White House Tuesday knocked down a report that President Barack Obama feared that Republican Mitt Romney wants CIA chief and Iraq war hero David Petraeus as his running mate.

President Barack Obama's campaign lashed out at his Republican contender, Mitt Romney, on Tuesday for claiming that welfare was being "gutted" by the current administration.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Tuesday lashed out at the notion that he was a "Robin Hood in reverse," calling the president's attack "Obamaloney."

Sandra Fluke, the unexpected face of the Affordable Care Act's birth control mandate, campaigns for Obama in Denver the same week that an extreme wing of the anti-choice movement gathered enough signatures for a "personhood" ballot measure this fall in Colorado. The measure would define life as beginning at fertilization, effectively banning birth control.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Monday said that he hoped that former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin would have a speaking role at this month's Republican National Convention.

STAMFORD, Connecticut — US President Barack Obama joked Monday that his election foe Mitt Romney's tax plans would rob from the middle class to help the rich -- "like Robin Hood in reverse."

WASHINGTON — The White House on Monday refused to be drawn into a fierce row involving the top Senate Democrat Harry Reid, branded a "dirty liar" by Republicans for his accusations about Mitt Romney's tax record.

Conservative mega-donor Sheldon Adelson recently pressed presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to call for the release of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, unnamed sources close to the two men reportedly told Daily Beast reporters Eli Lake and Dan Ephron.

A new radio ad for President Barack Obama's reelection campaign attacks Mitt Romney's record on coal plants started running in the coal-heavy state of Ohio Tuesday, Politico reports.

Billionaire birther Donald Trump on Monday revealed that Republican officials are hoping that he will play a part at the Republican National Convention in Tampa later this month.

Fox News contributor Liz Trotta says that media coverage of Ann Romney has not been fair because "the ladies of the press" envy Gov. Mitt Romney's wife for marrying a "good, preferably rich man" like "their mothers told them."

Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) on Sunday advised presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to pick tea party favorite Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) as his running mate.

Conservative columnist Ann Coulter says that President Barack Obama has run Washington D.C. like the ranch where African-American pop star Michael Jackson was accused of molesting children.