There was a gospel choir, a marching band, a campaign bus, and signs that said "Rock me like a Herman Cain." At the College of Charleston yesterday, on the eve of the South Carolina GOP primary, Stephen Colbert and Herman Cain joined forces, hosting a rally to highlight the ability...

(Des Moines) -- It's a measure of the frustration with Washington's ongoing partisan stalemate that even in a GOP presidential race, participants in the Iowa caucuses -- ostensibly a supremely partisan exercise -- routinely asked Republican candidates how they would instill more cooperation between the parties in the nation's capital....

Senator Rick Santorum's last-minute surge in Iowa just days before the first 2012 caucuses has some people scratching theirs heads, wondering how a candidate who was polling in the single digits only weeks ago is now widely predicted to finish in the top three in tonight's GOP contest.  

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With a bipartisan afterglow still in the air on the morning after the State of the Union -- the result of members of Congress agreeing to sit with "dates" from the other side of the aisle during the president's speech -- a collection of senior lawmakers gathered at a Washington...

If the truth shall set you free, then losing an election might mark the first step towards freedom. At a recent discussion by four newly defeated members of Congress, truth was on vivid display as they reflected upon their political careers with great candor. "There's a new definition of bipartisanship...

As President Obama heads up to Capitol Hill today to meet with Senate Republicans, a few questions come to mind, the first being: Why don't the president and the Republicans in Congress get together like this more often?

The last time President Obama met with Senate Republicans was shortly...

If journalism is a front row seat to history, photographer David Hume Kennerly has been sitting in the VIP section. At seemingly every major political event that is photographed for history, one can catch a glimpse of Kennerly hard at work, either right in the heart of the action or...

At a panel discussion last week in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol, the elements of a potential deal on health care reform began to come into sight. The moderator honed in on the pressure points on either side. He asked Karen Ignagni, President of America's Health Insurance Plans, whether...

Anyone watching the Sunday talk shows this week might be forgiven for thinking bipartisanship is in the air. Despite the fact that President Barack Obama's federal stimulus plan received only three Republican votes in the U.S. Senate, some Republican governors seem to be ready to reach across the political aisle...