"To pick a VP thinking it will be a game-changer is highly unlikely."-- Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R), in a CBS News interview, downplaying expectations for Mitt Romney's running mate search....
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) may soon have the same problem that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has in trying to tame the Tea Party.
New York Times: "In Arizona, Missouri, Nebraska and Texas, Republican Senate candidates are vying fo...
Politico: "Many of the current strategy discussions are centered on not falling into the traps McCain did: looking wobbly as a leader and weak on the economy in the final weeks of the campaign. The private discussions include ruling out any vice president...
Jeffrey Toobin has an excellent look at how Chief Justice John Roberts orchestrated the Citizens United decision to effectively remove campaign finance limits.
"It was once liberals who were associated with using the courts to overturn the work of the de...
President Obama "counted on the support of younger voters four years ago. Now, a new Republican-leaning 'super' political committee wants to bring them to the GOP's side," the AP reports.
"Crossroads Generation, a new super PAC formed with the help of a...
A new New York Times/CBS News poll asked respondents a three-part question: whether same-sex couples should be allowed to legally marry, or if they should be allowed to form civil unions but not marry, or if there should be no legal recognition of a gay c...
President Obama "is casting Mitt Romney as a greedy, job-killing corporate titan with little concern for the working class in a new, multi-pronged effort that seeks to undermine the central rationale for his Republican rival's candidacy: his business cred...
Bloomberg notes that veteran politicians say 31-year-old Joseph Kennedy III (D), running for Congress in Massachusetts, "is the real deal. He draws comparisons to the young Jack Kennedy, and especially to Ted Kennedy in his first race for the Senate in 19...
David Parker, the embattled chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party, says he's staying on the job after party activists rejected his resignation, the AP reports.
"Gov. Beverly Perdue (D), Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton (D) and others had wanted Parker to...
Greece's political party leaders "failed to bridge differences in a last-ditch effort to form a coalition government Sunday, and new elections appeared inevitable even as talks to end the country's political impasse continued, renewing fears of an impendi...
"Call me cynical, but I didn't think his views on marriage could get any gayer."
-- Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), speaking at the Faith and Freedom Coalition meeting in Iowa....
A new USA Today/Gallup poll finds 51% of Americans say they approve of President Obama's stance that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry legally, but 60% say that his shift in position will have no bearing on how they vote in the November election...
