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Oct. 17, 2011
When it comes to financing presidential campaigns, the money raised by individual candidates may count less in the 2012 election than past contests. Gwen Ifill discusses the potential might of the new super PACs with Tara Malloy of the Campaign Legal Center and the Heritage Foundation's Hans von Spakovsky.
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Oct. 17, 2011
President Obama heads out on the road Monday to kick off his three-day "American Jobs Act" bus tour through North Carolina and Virginia.
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Oct. 14, 2011
Breaking news: Herman Cain has endorsed Mitt Romney. If that's news to you, it's because it happened four years ago.
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Oct. 11, 2011
Chris Christie got right to work at his newest job Tuesday. Immediately upon ascending to star surrogate for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Christie fielded a reporter's question about the Perry-campaign-approved introducer at last week's Values Voters Summit, Pastor Robert Jeffress, and his calling Mormonism a "cult."
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Oct. 11, 2011
One week after ruling out a potential presidential bid, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie planned Tuesday to endorse former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination. The announcement was expected to come at a 3 p.m. event in Lebanon, N.H., hours before GOP hopefuls were scheduled to debate at Dartmouth College.
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Oct. 7, 2011
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney sat down with Judy Woodruff Friday to discuss the war in Afghanistan, his GOP rivals and how he would get more Americans back to work. In this preview clip, Romney chides GOP rival and Texas Gov. Rick Perry for not releasing his economic plan.
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Oct. 7, 2011
After outlining his foreign policy vision Friday at The Citadel, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney sat down with Judy Woodruff and discussed the war in Afghanistan, his GOP rivals and how he would get more Americans back to work. This is their complete interview. A shorter version aired on the NewsHour broadcast.
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Oct. 7, 2011
Politics is not an ego-free business. And why should it be? I got a taste of that this week as New Jersey's Chris Christie and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took themselves out of presidential consideration.
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Oct. 7, 2011
On Friday, Mitt Romney plans to turn his critiques of President Obama into a blistering campaign rallying cry when he takes the stage at The Citadel in Charleston, S.C., for what his advisers describe as a major foreign policy speech.
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Oct. 6, 2011
Perhaps the most astonishing part of Sarah Palin's decision not to seek the 2012 Republican presidential nomination is how easily and completely it was overshadowed by the death of Steve Jobs.
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Oct. 4, 2011
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced Tuesday that he will not join the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Judy Woodruff discusses what his decision means for the campaigns of the rest of the GOP contenders with Political Editor David Chalian and Jeff Zeleny of The New York Times.
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Oct. 3, 2011
This week Senior correspondents Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill and Political Editor David Chalian consider whether the accelerated Republican primary calendar benefits the front-runner candidates at the expense of candidates who need more time to make their case to Republican voters.
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Sept. 30, 2011
Florida is now first on the 2012 calendar, but it's not expected to stay there for very long.
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Sept. 29, 2011
After unveiling his "21st Century Contract with America," former House Speaker Newt Gingrich spoke with Judy Woodruff about his policy proposals, including efforts to create jobs, ramp up research into brain science and overhauls of Medicare and Medicaid. This is the third in a series of conversations with GOP contenders.
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Sept. 28, 2011
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is not yet running for president, but many Republicans are yearning for him to throw his hat into the ring. Judy Woodruff and Political Editor David Chalian discuss the likelihood that Christie will enter the race and the effect that would have.
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Sept. 23, 2011
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks weigh in on the week's top political news, including the latest debate among GOP 2012 hopefuls and the House showdown over disaster aid funding.
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Sept. 23, 2011
Leading contenders, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, drew sharp lines of distinction between each other at the GOP debate in Orlando on Thursday night. Judy Woodruff reports.
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Sept. 23, 2011
If you are a political junkie like me, there can never be too many candidates' debates. FOX? CNN? MSNBC? Have at it. The more they talk, the more we learn.
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Sept. 23, 2011
After his performance in Thursday night's debate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and his team will have to work overtime to assuage concerns among supporters, donors, voters, party poo-bahs and the press that he might not be ready for primetime.
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Sept. 22, 2011
Seven of the nine Republican presidential contenders who will take to the debate stage in Orlando Thursday night took part in an afternoon kick-off event for a meeting known as Presidency 5, giving the candidates -- and the party faithful -- a chance to warm up for the night's main event.
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Sept. 22, 2011
The two men in what has become a two-man race for the Republican presidential nomination each conducted national interviews Wednesday to help set the stage for Thursday night's debate in Orlando, Fla. If Rick Perry and Mitt Romney get their way, the debate will be "Obama Lite" vs. Electability.
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Sept. 21, 2011
President Obama may have thought he was leaving domestic squabbles behind when he headed for the U.N. General Assembly this week. But as the Palestinian Authority seeks statehood recognition at the United Nations, his Republican opponents seized the opportunity to portray his administration as not strong enough on Israel.
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Sept. 20, 2011
The political reaction to President Obama's deficit reduction plan has pretty much gone according to script. Republicans are charging the president with "class warfare," and Democrats are cheering the president for drawing the battle lines.
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Sept. 19, 2011
President Obama will call for $1.5 trillion in new taxes as part of plan to find more than $3 trillion in savings.
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Sept. 16, 2011
President Obama closes out another very tough week Friday, one in which he faced a continued stream of negative economic data, a Congress that doesn't seem eager to pass his jobs bill as is, an investigation of a botched green-tech stimulus program and an electoral rebuke in two House special elections.
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Sept. 15, 2011
One week after President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, plans to present his policy prescriptions for job growth and the economy.
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Sept. 14, 2011
Democrats went 0-2 Tuesday night in the House special elections in New York City and Nevada. The results, especially the GOP upset in New York, are sending real fears throughout the Democratic Party about what can be done to avert similar disaster at the polls next November.
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Sept. 13, 2011
At Monday night's CNN/Tea Party-sponsored event in Tampa, Fla., eight Republican presidential hopefuls were on stage, but the party's new front-runner, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, was the one put to the test by many of his rivals. Kwame Holman recaps the debate.
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Sept. 13, 2011
It seems the old saying "Don't mess with Texas" doesn't apply to Republican presidential debates, as Texas Gov. Rick Perry spent much of Monday night's CNN/Tea Party-sponsored event in Tampa, Fla., under withering attack from many of his rivals on the stage.
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Sept. 12, 2011
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is trying to "fix" a political problem he created for himself in the last Republican presidential debate. The front-runner for the nomination previews his adjusted approach to talking about Social Security in an op-ed in Monday's USA Today.