Apr 24 Watch 'No One Is Higher Than Me,' Sheriff Arpaio Tells Inmate 'No One Is Higher Than Me,' Sheriff Arpaio Tells Inmate… Continue watching
Apr 24 Voters Focus on Economy, but Candidates Are Silent on Solutions By Dante Chinni GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks in in Wilmington, Del., on April 11. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The 2012 election is going to be about the economy. We've heard that for the last year as analysts have diagnosed this… Continue reading
Apr 24 Will Pennsylvania Republicans Vote for Romney? By Teresa Gorman Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images. Mitt Romney may be the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, but many Pennsylvanians continued to voice reservations about their votes leading up to their state's primary Tuesday. Romney cannot afford a narrow victory in Pennsylvania, public… Continue reading
Apr 24 Romney Set to Take Care of Unfinished Primary Business By Terence Burlij Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, left, and Mitt Romney campaign in Aston, Pa., on Monday. Photo by Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images. While the GOP primary battle is all but over, Mitt Romney remains 447 delegates short of the total needed to… Continue reading
Apr 23 Watch Social Security Slated to Run Dry in 2033, Trustees Warn Social Security will exhaust its trust fund in 2033 -- three years earlier than previous projections, the program's trustees announced Monday. Ray Suarez, Nancy Altman of Social Security Works and the Heritage Foundation's David John discuss its long-term health amid… Continue watching
Apr 23 Watch Will Social Conservatives Come Around to Romney? Will Pennsylvania Conservatives Come Around to Romney?… Continue watching
Apr 23 Watch John Edwards Trial Expected to Set Precedents for Campaign-Finance Law John Edwards Trial Expected to Set Precedents for Campaign-Finance Law… Continue watching
Apr 23 Aging Population, Costs Worsen Medicare's Long-term Prognosis Photo by John Moore/Getty Images On the PBS NewsHour Monday night, Ray Suarez will examine the grim reports released Monday by the trustees of Social Security and Medicare. Joining him to discuss the outlook for the Social Security program… Continue reading
Apr 23 Economic Picture in Swing States Could Boost Obama By Terence Burlij President Obama speaks at a campaign event last week at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images. Poll after poll has shown that no single issue outranks the economy in the minds of voters this… Continue reading
Apr 20 Political Planking: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Shad By Christina Bellantoni // In a quick political debrief, congressional correspondent Kwame Holman spoke with me about his trip to rural Virginia to cover the annual "shad planking" event. Kwame noted in his blog post this week that it's a longtime… Continue reading