Elections

Budget Battles

  • Sarah Palin Is Gatecrashing Iowa Straw Poll

    By Grace Wyler

    After nearly three months off the road, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's quixotic "One Nation" bus tour is headed to Iowa this week, according to Organize4Palin, a network of Palin supporters. It is...

  • Poll: Public Fed Up with Both Parties

    By JON COHEN and Dan Balz, The Washington Post

    A new Washington Post poll underscores the damage done to President Obama and both political parties by the long standoff over the debt ceiling and the weakened economy.

  • Seven Questions for Eight GOP Hopefuls

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    The eight Republican presidential hopefuls meeting for a debate tonight in Ames, Iowa, will no doubt be spending a lot of time bashing President Obama on the economy and stock market turmoil, but...

  • Wis. GOP Holds off Democrats in Recall Elections

    By SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans held onto control of the Wisconsin Senate on Tuesday, beating back four Democratic challengers in a recall election despite an intense political backlash against GOP...

  • Pataki Closer to Declaring his Candidacy for President

    By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

    In his strongest criticism yet of President Obama and his administration, George Pataki, former Republican governor of New York and the founder of the non-profit organization, No American Debt, told...