Elections

Budget Battles

  • Romney Raises $18M in Second Quarter

    By CHRIS CILLIZZA, The Washington Post

    Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney raised $18.25 million over the past three months, a sum likely to put him head and shoulders above his Republican presidential rivals in the money chase.

  • Romney Says Obama Made Economy Worse

    By NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON, The Washington Post

    Mitt Romney again said Tuesday that President Obama has made the economy worse, speaking during a visit to the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire and reclaiming an argument that...

  • GOP Candidates Blitz New Hampshire, Iowa

    By NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON and ROSALIND S. HELDERMAN, The Washington Post

    AMHERST, N.H. — The GOP presidential hopefuls who hit the campaign trail on the Fourth of July spent their time doing much the same thing — over and over again. They walked and waved their way...

  • Gingrich Employees Troubled by Tiffany Purchases

    By CAROL D. LEONNIG, The Washington Post

    Employees of presidential candidate Newt Gingrich grew increasingly concerned in recent years about their boss’s purchases from luxury jeweler Tiffany & Co., worried that if he followed through...

  • Bachmann's Appeal Focuses on 'Feel'

    By CHRIS CILLIZA, The Washington Post

    Rep. Michele Bachmann made a startling admission Wednesday night at an event in South Carolina: She had a previously unreported miscarriage. “After our second child was born, we became pregnant with...