You hear it every four years: This is the most important election in a generation. So if I say it to you about 2012, you'll probably tune me out as just another hyperbolic pundit. Which is why I ...

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 ...

From shifting demographics to the issues that swayed voters to judging the pundits and pollsters, here are our key charts from the 2012 elections. 1) Overall, the electorate was less white than in ...

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 ...

This election will be unprecedented, no matter who wins. Nov. 6, 2012 -- intro:The polls were close, the predictions were rampant and the attack ads were constant, but no matter which candidates ...

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 ...

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 ...

We're one year away from the 2012 elections, but votes cast in the coming days will say a great deal about the political direction of the nation as Americans prepare to pick a president. Even as ...

For the first time%2C blacks were more likely to vote than whites in 2012 The actual number of white voters declined%2C the first time for any racial group Overall%2C voter turnout was lower than ...

Gallup says several factors led to overstatement of Romney support Group plans to test new polling in 2013 elections USA TODAY had polling partnership with Gallup in 2012 WASHINGTON – Pollsters ...