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...

  • How Gingrich Went from Flameout to Fortune

    By Karen Tumulty and Dan Eggen, The Washington Post

    Anyone who doesn’t believe in an afterlife must not live in Washington. Rarely, however, has reincarnation been so lucrative as it has for the man who now tops some polls for the 2012 Republican...

  • Gingrich on Immigration: A Strategy Not Amnesty

    By Edward Morrissey

    Never let it be said that Newt Gingrich fears thinking out of the box. The former Speaker has spent the last few decades offering a dizzying variety of policy innovations – some mainstream, and...

  • Obama Uses Tax-Cut Pledge to Needle Republicans

    By Peter Wallsten and Lori Montgomery Wp, The Washington Post

    MANCHESTER, N.H. — With taxes set to rise for nearly every American worker, President Obama sought Tuesday to highlight his tax-cutting bona fides, accusing Republicans of hypocrisy if they do not...

  • GOP Candidates Debate Security vs. Rights

    By Dan Balz and AMY GARDNER, The Washington Post

    The Republican presidential candidates opened their national security debate Tuesday night by clashing over the balance between protecting the country from terrorist attacks and preserving individual...

  • Gingrich Surges in the Polls But is Saddled with Political Baggage

    By AMY GARDNER, The Washington Post

    NASHUA, N.H. — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich touched down in New Hampshire on Monday to assume the title of surging presidential candidate — and to try to impart to it a staying power that has...