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May 9, 2012
In this week's Political Checklist, Political Editor Christina Bellantoni chatted with senior correspondents Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff about election fallout following Indiana's GOP Senate primary.
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May 9, 2012
Days after Vice President Biden touched off a political firestorm by saying he now believes same-sex marriages should be protected under law, President Barack Obama declared Wednesday afternoon that he now supports gay marriage.
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May 9, 2012
Mitt Romney's candidacy will help the GOP pick up seats in Congress this fall, Rep. Pete Sessions, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee told reporters Wednesday.
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May 9, 2012
s longtime senators, the media's chattering class and political consultants ponder the meaning of Sen. Richard Lugar's overwhelming loss in Indiana's Republican primary, the prevailing question will be: What does it mean for November?
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May 8, 2012
Call it the curse of the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Sen. Richard Lugar, who has served as chairman or ranking Republican on Foreign Relations since 1985, was following in a hoary tradition when toppled in Tuesday's Indiana GOP primary.
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May 8, 2012
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum finally endorsed presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, but he made clear he wants to have a say in the direction of the campaign.
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May 7, 2012
President Obama and Mitt Romney received a fresh sign Monday of their standing in a dozen key battleground states where the fall election is likely to be decided.
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May 4, 2012
With a mixed jobs report out Friday, Mitt Romney is keeping up his attacks on President Obama's economic record. The issue is where Romney stands strongest in a general election matchup -- one reason he keeps returning to it after diversions on other issues.
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May 3, 2012
President Obama and Mitt Romney are locked in a dead heat in two states that will likely play a deciding role in November's election: Florida and Ohio.
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May 2, 2012
As much as I know women are not all alike, that they can differ dramatically from one another in their thinking about politics , I keep coming back to this "non bloc" of voters for clues to how they see their choices in this year's election.
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May 2, 2012
In the coming days, the campaigns of President Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney will ramp up in the fight to sway voters. And judging by the looks of a recent Pew Research Center poll analyzed through the Patchwork Nation geographic and demographic breakdown of counties, Romney has some work ahead of him.
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May 2, 2012
Mitt Romney got a stark reminder Tuesday of just how difficult it is to run against an incumbent president who has command of the bully pulpit.
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May 1, 2012
This May Day marks President Obama's first television attack ad aimed squarely at Mitt Romney.
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April 30, 2012
In this week's Political Checklist, Political Editor Christina Bellantoni chatted with senior correspondents Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff about President Obama's latest campaign video, which reminds voters he inherited a bad economy from President George W.
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April 30, 2012
Former President Bill Clinton summed up his arguments for the re-election of President Obama to high-dollar donors in Northern Virginia on Sunday night and issued a sharp rebuke of eventual GOP nominee Mitt Romney as too extreme for the country.
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April 27, 2012
Just when you thought it was safe to go back outside, it turns out the campaign lull we thought had just begun hasn't occurred at all.
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April 27, 2012
House Speaker John Boehner endorsed Mitt Romney just last week, and by Thursday he had turned into one of the presumptive GOP nominee's fiercest allies on Capitol Hill, launching a sharp rebuke of President Obama's trip to three college campuses, where he urged Congress to prevent a doubling of student interest loan rates.
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April 26, 2012
President Obama plans to kick off his general election campaign next weekend with a pair of rallies in two key battleground states -- Ohio and Virginia. Both events will be held at universities -- Ohio State in Columbus and Virginia Commonwealth in Richmond.
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April 25, 2012
Judy Woodruff writes: "With 28 weeks until Election Day, I am excited for the privilege of following another hard-fought battle over the most powerful job in the world, but I confess to sense of foreboding that the next few months may be overwhelmed by negative campaign attacks."
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April 25, 2012
Have you ever had a question for Gwen Ifill, moderator of Washington Week and senior correspondent for the PBS NewsHour? Ask Thursday at 1 p.m. ET in a live chat.
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April 25, 2012
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich is expected to suspend his presidential campaign next Tuesday and throw his support behind Mitt Romney, according to officials in his campaign.
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April 25, 2012
With his sweep of five states Tuesday, Mitt Romney seized the GOP nomination and made clear that his focus would now be directed squarely on President Obama.
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April 24, 2012
For the past year, we've been hearing from analysts that this election is going to be about the economy. The fate of the presidential race has rarely been seen as being so directly tied to a set of economic indicators. And yet, as the general election begins, the amount of economic talk coming from the two contenders is light.
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April 24, 2012
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.
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April 24, 2012
While the GOP primary battle is all but over, Mitt Romney remains 447 delegates short of the total needed to clinch the nomination. But he is expected to put a serious dent in that number Tuesday, when voters in five states -- worth 231 delegates -- head to the polls to cast ballots.
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April 23, 2012
While a pair of recent surveys have shown Mitt Romney with an advantage when it comes to having better ideas to fix the economy, the economic data in key battleground states appear to favor President Obama.
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April 20, 2012
In a quick political debrief, congressional correspondent Kwame Holman spoke with Political Editor Christina Bellantoni about his trip to rural Virginia to cover the annual "shad planking" event. Kwame noted in a blog post this week that the fish feast is a longtime political tradition, but this year featured more Republicans.
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April 20, 2012
It took the 2012 presidential campaign to throw Democrat Hilary Rosen and conservative Ted Nugent into the same sentence. Both Rosen and Nugent committed the mortal sin of the surrogate. They stepped on -- no, squashed -- the principal's message.
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April 20, 2012
It's a big day for Mitt Romney, who will be embraced by GOP establishment figures during the Republican National Committee's meeting of state chairmen and officials in Scottsdale, Ariz.
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April 19, 2012
Every elected Virginia governor since the days of the final Roosevelt administration has made sure to get to the modest rural town of Wakefield, 35 miles south of Richmond on the third Wednesday in April, to walk among fellow Virginians and try the planked shad.