Elections
  • ‘American Girl’? Not to Tom Petty

    By CHRIS RICHARDS, The Washington Post

    You’ve heard this one before: A hopeful politician plays a song at a rally, and a rankled rock star slaps him with a cease-and-desist letter. With the 2012 race for the White House officially...

  • Romney: Seven Rules that Can Revive Our Economy

    Mitt Romney has this going for him: he is a proven turnaround artist. The former governor of Massachusetts cut his professional teeth at Bain Capital, a company specializing in making sick companies...

  • Palin Running Out of Time to Decide

    By NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON, The Washington Post

    Sarah Palin appeared at a screening of a documentary about her years as Alaska governor and further stoking speculation that she might make a White House bid.

  • Bachmann Storms Waterloo in First Campaign Speech

    Once dismissed as a fringe conservative activist, Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann formally announced her campaign for president in Iowa at the same time she’s surging in the polls and challenging...

  • Monday Morning Catch-up: News You May Have Missed

    Top Story/Election 2012 A Des Moines Register poll of Republicans likely to participate in the Iowa caucuses shows former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney leading the pack of contenders for the GOP...