Apr 25 An Election to Look Forward To? By Judy Woodruff As someone who has long loved covering politics and the people who practice it, I should be on the edge of my seat as the presidential campaign kicks into higher gear and the focus unambiguously settles on Obama vs. Romney. Continue reading
Apr 25 Join a Live Chat With Gwen Ifill Thursday at 1 p.m. ET By News Desk Have you ever had a question for Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and senior correspondent for the PBS NewsHour? Now's your chance to ask. Ifill will be taking your questions on the economy, politics or whatever… Continue reading
Apr 25 Gingrich Expected to Suspend Campaign, Back Romney By Terence Burlij Newt Gingrich's only primary victories came in South Carolina and in his old home state of Georgia. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich is expected to suspend his presidential campaign next Tuesday and throw his support… Continue reading
Apr 25 Romney Sweeps Primaries in Five States, Turns Focus to Obama By Terence Burlij Mitt Romney celebrates with supporters Tuesday night in Manchester, N.H. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. 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… Continue reading
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 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
Apr 20 The Curse of the Political Surrogate: When Silence Should Be Golden By Gwen Ifill It took the 2012 presidential campaign to throw Democrat Hilary Rosen and conservative Ted Nugent into the same sentence. Rosen made more of a splash last week than she ever did in 17 years at the powerful Recording Industry Association… Continue reading