Sam Stein

WASHINGTON -- The conservative super PAC American Crossroads debuted a new web ad on Tuesday that attacks President Barack Obama for a litany of wasteful, government-funded projects. The script doesn't exactly break new ground, putting a spotlight on traditional Republican boogeymen, including the bankruptcy of government-backed solar panel maker Solyndra...

NEW YORK -- In the span of roughly 20 minutes on Thursday, Newt Gingrich compared Mitt Romney to Dwight Eisenhower and George Washington; professed confusion with birthers; sifted through a litany of Republican vice presidential picks, before offering up the names of his favorite zoo and snake.

The former...

NEW YORK -- The first sustained attacks against presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney over his tenure at the helm of Bain Capital took place in mid-January, during the heated days leading up to the South Carolina primary.

It was in that time period that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich...

Mitt Romney, in a sit-down interview with Time's Mark Halperin, said that by the end of his first term as president he would get the unemployment rate down to or below 6 percent from its current rate of just over 8 percent.

"I can't possibly predict precisely what...

Mitt Romney's ousted foreign policy spokesman Richard Grenell has penned an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal making the case that same-sex marriage will not and should not be the determining issue for voters this fall.

Grenell is openly gay. And when he abruptly left the Romney...

WASHINGTON -- In the age of super PACs, campaign entities that can raise and spend unlimited sums of money, gone are the days when a broad fundraising base was needed to launch a serious campaign.

Instead, candidates can rely on a small group of incredibly wealthy friends, who need only...

WASHINGTON -- The top Democrat in charge of protecting his party's majority in the Senate thinks it can be done. But he's deeply concerned his organization won't have the money to do it.

Guy Cecil, the executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, figures the odds of preventing Mitch...

WASHINGTON -- It was evident, from the moment he lamented attacks on Bain Capital during an interview on "Meet The Press," that Cory Booker would find himself in the epicenter of a campaign firestorm.

The Newark mayor called criticisms of Mitt Romney's former private equity firm "nauseating" and "crap,"...

As he continued his long-shot run for the Republican nomination for president during the month of April, Newt Gingrich incurred more than $1.3 million in debt, according to a review of his most recent campaign filing report.

Part of the money was paid back during that same month. But the...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's reelection campaign spent more than $14.6 million in April, ending up with more than $115 million cash on hand, according to a filing it made with the Federal Election Commission on Friday afternoon.

The numbers show a campaign taking in far more...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- At a campaign event in New Hampshire on Friday, Mitt Romney once again sharply condemned the stimulus package passed during the president's first month in office, calling it "the largest one-time careless expenditure of government money in American history."

The former Massachusetts governor has

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- When it comes time to score Mitt Romney's first general election ad, the independent arbitrators will rank it as a "negative" spot.

The ad, released on Friday morning and set to air in key swing states, outlines the specific policies that Romney would pursue in the...

WASHINGTON -- Top aides to President Barack Obama's presidential campaign have long prepared for a general election battle far more divisive and nasty than the one that took place in 2008.

The rapid growth of super PACs has enabled deep-pocketed donors to spend unlimited sums of money on negative campaign...

President Barack Obama's allied super PAC is getting a major staffing boost as it struggles to compete with its conservative counterparts for resources and influence.

Bill Burton, the founder of Priorities USA Action, announced on Wednesday that Mary Beth Cahill, who served as campaign manager for the 2004 presidential bid...

WASHINGTON -- Apparently healed from the trauma caused by last summer's debt-ceiling showdown, House Republicans and the White House have begun an eight-month long standoff over the next debt-ceiling fight.

President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) met for lunch Wednesday, during which the predictable battle lines...

WASHINGTON -- As complicated as the politics of gay marriage have been for President Barack Obama to navigate, they have proven problematic for Mitt Romney as well.

Immediately after the president announced his support for marriage equality, his re-election campaign went on the offensive, charging Romney, the presumptive...

Mitt Romney has spent the past few weeks portraying President Barack Obama as an "old-school liberal" so out of touch with modern realities that he's a dinosaur even within his own party. To that point, he's tried in several recent speeches to pit the president against Bill Clinton, who famously...

WASHINGTON -- One of the Senate's departing moderate Republicans expressed openness on Tuesday to the idea of filibuster reform, lamenting the ideological rigidity that has paralyzed the chamber.

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), who announced her retirement several months ago, acknowledged that it was necessary for her and her colleagues to...

A controversial new book about President Barack Obama appears to lift a key quote from the president's former physician from a nearly three-year-old article, in which that physician raises issues with his former patient's proposed health care reform law.

Edward Klein's "The Amateur" is filled with anecdotes that paint Obama...

Last week's blockbuster report in the Washington Post that Mitt Romney bullied a closeted gay classmate in prep school creates a bit of uncomfortable timing for House Republicans as they consider a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.

The House will vote this week on VAWA. But...