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Dec. 15, 2011
The federal government is again facing the threat of a shutdown because of a partisan divide in Congress. The version of the story this time is that Senate Democrats don't want to pass the House Republican version of the payroll tax cut because it contains policy riders they disagree with.
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Dec. 14, 2011
Mitt Romney is turning what has been one of his biggest political liabilities -- lingering doubts about his consistency on key issues -- into a line of attack on his chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination, Newt Gingrich.
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Dec. 13, 2011
The rivalry between Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney veered from political differences to personal attacks Monday, marking a sharp turn in the Republican presidential nominating fight just three weeks before the Iowa caucuses.
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Dec. 12, 2011
As President Obama capped off a week of making his case for re-election with an appearance on Sunday's "60 Minutes," a fresh batch of poll numbers show 54 percent of Americans do not believe he deserves a second term.
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Dec. 9, 2011
The polls have crowned Newt Gingrich as Republican front-runner, and now his GOP rivals have recognized the coronation by sharpening their attacks on the former House speaker.
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Dec. 8, 2011
The Newt Gingrich surge has spread beyond Iowa and South Carolina, and now extends to Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to the Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll released Thursday.
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Dec. 7, 2011
Texas Gov. Rick Perry released a new television ad Wednesday aimed at courting socially conservative voters, a key voting bloc in next month's Iowa caucuses.
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Dec. 7, 2011
With the election 11 months away, President Obama outlined a populist argument for a second term in Osawatomie, Kan., the same town where in 1910, Theodore Roosevelt delivered his "New Nationalism" speech calling for a strong central government that "must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests."
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Dec. 6, 2011
Another day, and two more polls affirming Newt Gingrich's position as the new front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Dec. 5, 2011
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich claimed the top spot in a pair of polls released in Iowa over the weekend, both of which showed him with comfortable leads ahead of the state's Jan. 3 nominating contest.
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Dec. 3, 2011
Herman Cain announced Saturday he was suspending his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, citing the "painful price" sexual harassment and extramarital affair allegations have had on his family.
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Dec. 2, 2011
In an interview with Judy Woodruff Friday, former President Bill Clinton discussed his new book, "Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy," his new collaboration with President Obama to promote energy efficiency and create jobs, his 2012 predictions and his relationship with GOP candidate Newt Gingrich.
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Dec. 2, 2011
Newt Gingrich is looking to bring some certainty to a Republican presidential race that has been anything but settled. "I'm going to be the nominee," the former House speaker confidently told ABC News on Thursday.
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Dec. 1, 2011
The reverberations from Mitt Romney's recent interview on Fox News are still being felt -- and the manner in which they settle could go a long way toward determining the shape of the GOP race in the coming weeks.
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Nov. 30, 2011
Europe's current economic drama is intricately tied to American politics. And if things go bad in Europe -- really bad -- American voters and candidates will suddenly be getting acquainted with talking points centered on the fate of the euro.
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Nov. 30, 2011
A day after an Atlanta woman named Ginger White said she had a 13-year romantic affair with Herman Cain, the one-time front-runner in the 2012 Republican primary said on a conference call Tuesday that he would reassess his campaign.
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Nov. 29, 2011
The Iowa caucuses may be five weeks away, but the way that Democrats and Mitt Romney's campaign clashed on Monday, it seemed as if the general election were around the corner.
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Nov. 28, 2011
Longtime Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., announced Monday he will not seek re-election in 2012, ending a career that stretched more than three decades fighting for liberal causes.
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Nov. 28, 2011
By picking up a coveted newspaper endorsement over the weekend to go along with his front-runner status in many recent national polls, Newt Gingrich heads into the final month of 2011 with plenty of momentum.
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Nov. 23, 2011
Eight Republican candidates gathered Tuesday night in Washington, D.C., for their 11th debate, which centered on foreign policy and national security. Ray Suarez recaps the debate with NPR's Ari Shapiro.
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Nov. 18, 2011
When Newt Gingrich was preparing to launch a run for the White House earlier this year, part of the delay was reportedly his need to unwind the financial entanglements from his multi-million dollar business operation. Those dealings could now be what slows down his presidential bid.
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Nov. 17, 2011
Energy Secretary Steven Chu appears set to push back forcefully on GOP criticism that the Obama administration's $535 million loan guarantee to the now-defunct solar panel manufacturer Solyndra was financially unwise and politically motivated.
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Nov. 16, 2011
After another day of private meetings and negotiations on Capitol Hill, the 12-member Congressional supercommittee was apparently no closer Tuesday to its mandated $1.2 trillion deficit reduction deal, and all signs point to a process that will remain gridlocked until the Nov. 23 deadline.
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Nov. 15, 2011
Herman Cain struggled Monday during a question-and-answer session with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about whether he supported President Obama's handling of the uprising in Libya.
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Nov. 11, 2011
Texas Gov. Rick Perry spent Thursday working feverishly to turn the corner on his much maligned brain freeze in Wednesday night's debate. He did no fewer than seven nationally televised interviews, additional radio interviews and ended the day at the Ed Sullivan theater doing David Letterman's Top Ten list.
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Nov. 10, 2011
Texas Gov. Rick Perry moved to rebound from his embarrassing gaffe at the Republican presidential debate on Wednesday. Judy Woodruff and NewsHour Political Editor David Chalian recap the highlights of the debate.
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Nov. 10, 2011
Rick Perry did Herman Cain a favor in the Michigan GOP debate. By failing to remember the name of the third federal agency he intended to shut down if elected president, he claimed unflattering next-day headlines that might have otherwise at least been shared by Cain.
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Nov. 10, 2011
You know you didn't have a good night as a presidential candidate if you need to get up early to do a round of morning show interviews in which you have to assert you're staying in the race.
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Nov. 9, 2011
Two high-profile ballot measures in Ohio and Mississippi headlined this year's off-year elections, and both were resoundingly defeated Tuesday.
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Nov. 8, 2011
GOP hopeful Herman Cain went before cameras late Tuesday in Scottsdale, Ariz. to deny allegations made by a Chicago-area woman that he made unwanted sexual advances toward her more than a decade ago. Judy Woodruff and Political Editor David Chalian discuss the scandal's impact on Cain's bid for the White House.
