A new poll released Thursday found President Obama with a big lead over Sarah Palin in the 2012 presidential contest, and with smaller leads over two ...

His party got hammered in the midterm election, he's taking heat from fellow Democrats for compromising with Republicans on taxes, and his job approva...

Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), a potential 2012 presidential candidate, appeared to unofficially launch one of the first salvos in the forthcoming GOP prim...

Death and taxes, it is said, are life's only two certainties. But in the wake of President Obama's tax compromise with congressional Republicans, only...

We're well into one of the most entertaining phases of the presidential selection process. Potential candidates are surveying rivals to make a decision about running.

Will President Obama run for re-election in 2012? Should he? If he doesn't, who should be the Democratic Party's 2012 Presidential nominee? I posed t...

Calling the White House tax deal with Republicans the "last straw," Ralph Nader predicted that President Obama will face a primary challenger in 2012....

Is it possible a candidate could emerge within or outside the Democratic Party who could ignite not just the true believers, but the whole country? Obama himself was once such a candidate.

Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Mass.) expressed Tuesday what now seems to be widespread concern over the president's leadership and bargaining skills in the ...

Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday downplayed the significance that Obama's recent deal on the extension of Bush tax cuts would have on his party's ...

PPP 11/29/10 - 12/01/10 500 Registered voters (4.4% margin of error) Mode: Automated phone (PPP PDF) Massachusetts 2012 President 43% Romney, 52% Ob...

We can definitely disabuse ourselves of the notion that a Bloomberg presidency will achieve what the pundit class will inevitably claim his presidency will achieve: the successful alteration of the "tone" in "Washington."

A Palin presidential bid that GOP leaders once chuckled at is no longer a laughing matter. She is the most polarizing Republican since Lincoln.

Former President George H.W. Bush appeared to give an early presidential endorsement to Mitt Romney Monday, when he told CNN's Larry King in an interv...

WASHINGTON -- Two major developments in Democratic efforts to build an outside party apparatus took place this past Monday, as high-ranking officials ...

Dear Mr. President -- Your words are eloquent but your actions are lacking. Your party got trounced in the midterm elections for many reasons, but th...

In her newest book, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin sharply criticizes the record of President Barack Obama while defending her own, in the process...

Vice President Joe Biden appeared to respect the clout of Sarah Palin on Thursday, calling his former vice presidential opponent "appealing" and refus...

Joe says it ain't so. On Wednesday's "Morning Joe," anchor Joe Scarborough insisted that he was not looking to run for Vice President in 2012, saying...

WASHINGTON -- There's no campaign yet, and there may never be, but New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and MSNBC's morning talk-show host Joe Scarborough...

Rather than seek to belittle Sarah Palin, those who recognize the acute dangers of Palin should find ways to clearly articulate themselves so that the electorate will be informed -- before it is too late.

The current debate among Republicans about banning earmarks has become such a big issue that candidates looking forward to potential presidential runs...

Bobby Jindal says he will not run for president in 2012. "I'm not being coy at all. I'm not running for president in 2012. Period. No ifs, ands or bu...

The Democrats' mushy sometimes-with-the-bankers, sometimes-with-the-middle-class thing isn't working, and the real swing voters are populist working class folks.

Alvin Greene, the quirky former South Carolina Senate candidate, added additional hype to his potential bid for president earlier this week when he up...