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...

  • The Game Plan that Lets Romney Beat Obama

    By Liz Peek

    It’s time for Republicans to stop mewing like sick kittens and get on with ejecting President Obama from the White House. Like Victorian mothers fussing over their daughters, pundits on the right can...

  • 5) Washington, D.C.

    4 Big Auditors Spend Millions to Lobby Congress

    By David Ingram and DENA AUBIN, Reuters

    The world's largest accounting and auditing firms, known as the Big Four, have been pumping more money than ever before into U.S. lobbying and political campaigns as they confront new challenges from...

  • Retirement Fears Remain at Historic High

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    The longest running annual survey of American attitudes toward retirement and retirement security, conducted every January by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, showed just 52 percent of...

  • All Eyes on Gingrich in Southern Primary Showdown

    By Eric Pianin

    Former House Speaker is trying to engineer his third comeback in the GOP presidential sweepstakes, counting on a strong performance today in Alabama and Mississippi to catapult himself back into the...

  • The Income Gap Shrinks with Accurate Accounting

    By Liz Peek

    Are the rich getting richer? President Obama thinks so, and has made narrowing the gap between rich and poor a staple of his reelection campaign. Many on the left who decry the exorbitant payouts to...