2012 Elections

Budget Battles

  • The Great Debate

    Five Debate Moments that Changed Elections

    By Robert Speel, The Conversation

    Every presidential election year in my American Political Campaigns and Elections course, I get an opportunity to spend a full lecture discussing with students some of the famous moments from...

  • House panel says IRS official waived rights, contempt possible

    Lois Lerner Is Cleared, Sparking Conservative Fury

    By Rob Garver

    Concluding that “poor management is not a crime,” the Justice Department on Friday informed members of Congress that it would not be filing criminal charges against anyone in what has become known as...

  • GOP Leaders Take on Far Right Pressure Groups

    By Eric Pianin

    There have been plenty of theories about why Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) strode onstage at a conservative gathering late last week carrying a rifle. Ostensibly, McConnell, the 72-...

  • Romney: If Hillary Runs, She Won’t Need Bill

    By Thomas Ferraro, Reuters

    Failed 2012 U.S. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said on Sunday he expects Hillary Clinton to win or lose the White House on her record, not that of her husband, former Democratic...

  • Joint Session of Congress

    Voters Give a Thumbs-Down to Their Own Lawmakers

    By Eric Pianin

    In another sign of public outrage over a dysfunctional and politically divided Congress, a record low percentage of registered voters now say their own House member deserves another chance while even...

  • Three Reasons for the Coming Global Disruption

    By Richard N. Haass, Project Syndicate

    A surprising number of elections and political transitions is scheduled to occur over the coming months. An incomplete list includes Russia, China, France, the United States, Egypt, Mexico, and South...

  • What Mitt Romney Spent to Secure the GOP Nomination

    By Theweek.com, TheWeek.com

    His campaign spent more than his three nearest rivals combined in order to secure the nomination, and the disparity grows if you include the TV ads paid for by pro-Romney super PACs.

  • Rubio Eyes 2016 with Foreign Policy Speech

    By Karen DeYoung, The Washington Post

    Marco Rubio took another step onto the national stage on Wednesday with a foreign policy speech that positioned him squarely in the middle of a dying breed of GOP moderates and his partisan brethren...

  • The Extreme Leftward March of the Democrats

    By Edward Morrissey

    Democrats have spent most of the last three years lamenting the radical nature of their opponents. This began when Tea Party protests broke out in the spring of 2009 in response to an on-air rant by...

  • Obama on Jimmy Fallon: The Comedy Campaign Continues

    By Yuval Rosenberg

    Can you picture Jimmy Carter or George H.W. Bush (or Mitt Romney, for that matter) standing by while a late-night comic calls them 'the Preezy of the United Steezy' or bestowing a nickname like 'the...