Sam Stein

President Barack Obama on Friday told a room full of donors that he believed the Republican Party would eventually become more moderate, but only after it suffered defeat in the 2012 election.

"I believe that if we're successful in this election, when we're successful in this election, that the fever...

WASHINGTON -- As he assesses the electoral landscape, in which Democratic candidates will be pummeled with hundreds of millions of dollars in attack ads from super PACs, Guy Cecil, the man in charge of maintaining a Democratic majority in the Senate, takes solace in a 1970s-era elections law.

Since...

President Barack Obama heads to Golden Valley, Minn., on Friday as part of a series of trips urging Congress to act on his "To Do List" of measures designed to jump-start the economy.

On his visit to the facilities of Honeywell, a major manufacturer, the president will announce a...

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney made a surprise campaign stop on Thursday at the headquarters of Solyndra, the California-based solar technology company that failed despite more than a half-billion loan guarantee from the Obama administration.

The trip was clouded in secrecy in part, the Romney campaign declared, because of concerns...

David Axelrod, communications director for President Barack Obama's reelection campaign, held a press conference today on the steps of the Massachusetts Statehouse to highlight some of the more controversial aspects of Mitt Romney's record as governor.

But before he could get started, the event was sabotaged by a group...

Mitt Romney held a major fundraiser on Wednesday night at Chateau Carolands in Hillsborough, Calif., described by the event's pool report as "one of the largest private homes in the nation." It was at the event that the Republican presidential nominee formally received the endorsement of former Secretary...

WASHINGTON -- Fred Karger, an openly gay Republican presidential candidate, has won the first round of the discrimination complaint he brought against a leading conservative organization. And in the wake of that victory, he is floating the idea of escalating his fight with the American Conservative Union Foundation to the...

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...