May 31 New Polls Show Campaigns' Dead Heat Hasn't Lifted By Christina Bellantoni President Obama in Des Moines, Iowa May 24. Photo by: JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/GettyImages Deadlocked: past participle, past tense of dead·lock (verb) Cause (a situation or opposing parties) to come to a point where no progress can be made because of… Continue reading
May 30 Watch How Do You Spend $1 Billion in a White House Race Anyway? Mitt Romney's win Tuesday in Texas effectively sets up a two-man contest for the White House. As President Obama and his Republican challenger look to corral votes and money, Judy Woodruff, The Washington Post's Tom Hamburger and Politico's Kenneth Vogel… Continue watching
May 30 Political Checklist: After Texas-Sized Victory, What's Next For Romney? By Katelyn Polantz The NewsHour's Judy Woodruff and Christina Bellantoni break down how Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are targeting voters through the Internet. Continue reading
May 30 Watch Political Checklist: Romney's the Nominee, So Now What? The NewsHour politics duo breaks down where Romney's campaign goes from here. Continue watching
May 30 On to November: Romney Earns Spot to Face President By Christina Bellantoni Mitt Romney campaigns in Las Vegas Tuesday. Photo by: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images With little fanfare, Willard Mitt Romney crossed an important threshold Tuesday. The 65-year-old former governor of Massachusetts clinched enough primary delegates to earn the Republican Party's nomination to… Continue reading
May 29 Watch Campaigns Court Colorado Hispanics in Unpredictable Contest In Colorado, where Hispanics make up 20 percent of the population, presidential campaigning is increasingly being done in Spanish. And while immigration may not be the most important issue for Latino voters, it certainly is a defining one, according to… Continue watching
May 29 Watch How Mitt Romney Came to Be the GOP Nominee Mitt Romney was 58 delegates away from clinching the Republican nomination at the start of Tuesday, as Texas Republicans headed to vote in a primary likely to wrap up the GOP presidential race. Margaret Warner and The Boston Globe's Michael… Continue watching
May 29 Pollster: Democrats Should Bait GOP on Latino Issues // With polls showing two-thirds of Latino voters supporting President Barack Obama for re-election, the Republican Party faces an uphill battle to capture the Hispanic electorate in November. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Telemundo poll released last week shows that less… Continue reading
May 29 Watch Pollster: Democrats Should Bait GOP on Latino Issues Pollster: Democrats Should Bait GOP on Latino Issues… Continue watching
May 29 'Against Mexico' Documentary Explores Texas Secession Battle At first blush, a group reenactment of Texas' 1836 battle to secede from Mexico has little to do with today's political environment. But the notion of what it means to be an American is an issue that continues to stir… Continue reading