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July 17, 2012
Iowa has been good to both President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. This year, it will come down to which campaign can woo Iowa's ticket-splitting rural voters and swing Catholic voters, while establishing an edge in the politically diversifying cities.
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July 17, 2012
The Obama campaign is welcoming Mitt Romney to Pennsylvania on Tuesday with a new television ad that keeps up the drumbeat over the presumptive GOP nominee's taxes.
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July 16, 2012
From California, correspondent Spencer Michels reports on how President Obama's public endorsement of same-sex marriage triggered a flood of support from the gay community -- which is now providing campaign support both in votes and in fundraising.
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July 16, 2012
In interviews and attack ads, the presidential candidates have taken increasingly hostile swipes at each other as their nominating conventions approach and Mitt Romney prepares to select a running mate. Gwen Ifill discusses what's at stake for both campaigns with Politico's Jonathan Martin and the Atlantic's Molly Ball.
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July 16, 2012
As the country's attitudes toward same-sex marriage evolve, Democrats and Republicans take note -- courting the pocketbooks and votes of the LGBT community.
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July 16, 2012
It's estimated that only about 4 percent of the American population identifies as LGBT, and in national elections they usually vote Democratic. So can the Democrats not take the LGBT vote for granted? And why does the Obama campaign find it important to reach out so meaningfully to the gay community this year?
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July 16, 2012
On the trail this year, Mitt Romney has made it a habit to go phrase-by-phrase through several verses of "America the Beautiful." The tune was also the central focus of a tough new television ad that President Obama's re-election campaign says will air in key swing states.
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July 13, 2012
After a Washington Post story investigated Former Gov. Mitt Romney's connection to sending jobs overseas as the head of Bain Capital, President Obama has seized on outsourcing as a line of attack against his opponent. And Romney launched a counterattack in response.
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July 13, 2012
Democrats and Republicans alike acknowledge one of the main keys to success at the polls this November lies in luring women voters. Both sides were out targeting that critical demographic in force this week as new polling data shed light on ways both parties could use the gender gap to their advantage.
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July 13, 2012
Mitt Romney and his Republican allies have signaled a new strategy in an attempt to undermine something that was a strength for President Obama in 2008: Tell voters that the president is just like every other politician.
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July 13, 2012
President Obama heads to Virginia Beach Friday. Over half of the Virginians interviewed for the NewsHour's Listen to Me project cited the economy or jobs as the most important issue this election season.
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July 13, 2012
You have probably already heard that they booed Mitt Romney and cheered Joe Biden at the NAACP convention in Houston, Texas this week. Here is why it goes much deeper than that.
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July 12, 2012
Do "likes" on Facebook translate to votes? Howard Kurtz and Lauren Ashburn of Daily-Download.com examine that issue with Ray Suarez and also explore why traditional news outlets are partnering with social media sites this election year.
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July 12, 2012
So, What Does It Feel Like to Live In a Battleground State? In a bit of a political experiment, that's exactly the question we set out to answer. The NewsHour happened to see 30 minutes of late afternoon television programming in Richmond, Virginia and collected a tally of the political spots that ran.
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July 12, 2012
Mitt Romney is fighting fire with fire. The presumptive Republican presidential candidate released a new television ad Thursday taking aim at President Obama's charges that he was responsible for outsourcing jobs during his time at the private equity firm Bain Capital.
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July 11, 2012
Mitt Romney addressed the NAACP at their 103rd National Convention in Houston Wednesday morning. While acknowledging the historical significance of President Obama's election as the nation's first African-American president, Romney attempted to distinguish himself in the speech as a viable alternative for black voters
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July 11, 2012
Now that we're in the middle of what may be the hottest summer ever in Washington, some of us who live in the nation's capital have persuaded ourselves - if only for a moment - that we're in sync with the rest of the country.
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July 10, 2012
Even if the polls don't show it, Mitt Romney is making gains with an electorate that has thus far eluded the presumptive GOP nominee in his push towards the general election: Christian conservatives.
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July 10, 2012
Less than four months until Election Day, President Obama and Mitt Romney have almost no room for error, as the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll has the Democratic incumbent and his Republican challenger tied at 47 percent among registered voters.
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July 9, 2012
Three days after a third consecutive disappointing jobs report, President Obama intends to shift his attention Monday to the issue of tax fairness, calling on Congress to pass a one-year extension of the Bush tax cuts for families making less than $250,000 a year.
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July 6, 2012
Mitt Romney, the $100 million dollar man. The presumptive GOP presidential nominee and the Republican National Committee are expected to announce Friday a combined June haul of $100 million, nearly $5 million of that coming in the 24 hours following the Supreme Court's ruling on health care.
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July 5, 2012
As part of an ongoing series on social media and politics, Ray Suarez and journalists Lauren Ashburn and Howard Kurtz of Daily-Download.com discuss how campaigns send targeted emails, and what happens to politicians' deleted tweets.
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July 5, 2012
In the days since the Supreme Court upheld President Obama's health care law, a debate has grown louder, particularly in the presidential campaigns, over whether the mandate in the health care overhaul is a tax. National Journal correspondent Major Garrett describes the latest.
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July 5, 2012
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney provided the political fireworks Wednesday, telling CBS News the mandate in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul was a tax, a reversal of his campaign's framing of the law just two days earlier, but a view that is more consistent with leaders in the Republican Party.
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July 3, 2012
On the periphery of a recent Pew poll suggesting voters this election cycle are less enthused than they were four years ago, we turned to you all for some insight - do you still care about politics? Here are some of your responses, and a handful of videos from our "Listen to Me" series.
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July 3, 2012
In its ruling in favor of President Obama's health care law, the Supreme Court handed Republicans a political weapon by calling the individual mandate a tax. But likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney appears set to disarm his party's attacks by siding with the president in terms of how the mandate is interpreted.
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July 2, 2012
Reports that Chief Justice John Roberts switched his vote to uphold President Obama's health care law aside, what remains clear is that last week's Supreme Court decision will reverberate on the campaign trail, shaping the outcomes of elections on Nov. 6 and beyond.
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June 29, 2012
Ray Suarez talks to Democratic Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and Romney campaign adviser Tevi Troy about how the election campaigns will use the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Obama administration's health care law.
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June 29, 2012
"It should be pretty clear by now that I didn't do this because it was good politics," President Obama said Thursday, using the Supreme Court's blessing of his signature legislation to re-frame the health care debate in terms of how Americans can be helped by the law.
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June 29, 2012
Understanding that I was too young to witness the Kennedy funeral or the Nixon resignation firsthand, watching the Supreme Court uphold a sweeping health care law hours before the House of Representatives voted to find an attorney general in contempt of Congress - for the first time ever - was riveting.