The president’s central argument for re-election is built around fairness ... economic circumstances in a second term. Nov. 27, 2012 By REUTERS Gov. Jan Brewer , an ardent critic of President ...

Among the many distinctions of the 2012 election season was that it was the most expensive in history. President Obama and Mitt Romney each raised around a billion dollars and outside groups spent ...

All U.S. presidential elections "are unique in some fashion," says John G. Geer, a political science professor at Vanderbilt University. Sure, but what about 2012? What exactly will make the 2012 ...

In other Twitter news, with 20 million messages about the election sent so far today, Nov. 6, 2012, just became the most tweeted about political event in the six-year history of the service ...

Presidential elections are teaching moments for political ... of the vote in North Carolina while he got 48.4 percent in 2012. Compare that to how the Democratic presidential nominee performed ...

In the first portion John Benenson compared the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. Panelists in the second segment discussed some of the most important issues in the 2012 elections. Topics ...

The 2012 presidential election shattered spending records, further polarized a divided country and launched a thousand hashtags. The race appeared to be a nail-biter going into Tuesday night but ...

This season, we looked for ways to continue the legacy of TIME’s political coverage during the 2012 elections — to jump start the traditional approaches to covering campaigns that are moving ...

Straw polls, real polls, debates, caucuses, primaries—that's the public side of presidential campaigns 14 months before Election Day. But behind the scenes, strategists for President Obama and ...

Most of the issues dominating the 2012 election make sense. There’s the economy, of course. The budget deficit. Medicare. Obamacare. But click through the “videos” section of Mitt Romney’s ...

In Arizona, poll closing time is 9 p.m. EST. Arizona election returns are expected at 10 p.m. EST. In Arkansas, poll closing time is 8:30 p.m. EST. Election returns are expected at 8:30 p.m. EST.

The cost of federal elections is going up. The tab for the 2012 election is breaking records, with $4.2 billion raised through Sunday on the races for the White House and Congress. Never before ...