2012 Conventions

Romney makes a call to a voter and visits with volunteers during a stop at his Tampa, Fla., campaign headquarters.
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Into the last laps

Politics |  Inside the GOP's final push for the White House: As Republicans try to fire up the grassroots, many of those activists find more motivation in opposing a…

Polls show conflicting evidence for a Romney post-convention bounce

Polls show conflicting evidence for a Romney post-convention bounce

Politics |  WASHINGTON - A week after Mitt Romney officially became the Republican nominee for president, opinion polls are split on the effect of the GOP convention.

Poor Barack Obama

Poor Barack Obama

Politics |  Pitcher "Three Finger" Mordecai Brown retired from baseball in 1916, when President Woodrow Wilson successfully ran for reelection. Wilson ran on a "He kept…

Obama (left) and Clinton Wednesday night

Welfare work debate

Poverty |  As politicians from both parties debate changes to welfare reform, a new government report sides with Republicans

Jim Roosevelt

'Romneycare works'

Politics |  Democratic delegates praise Mitt Romney for the Massachusetts legislation that went unmentioned at last week's Republican National Convention

Nikki Haley in the GOP

Real-time rebuttals

Politics |  As Democrats gather this week in Charlotte, Republicans are stationed nearby, on alert, and ready to respond

Dealers in hope

Dealers in hope

Poverty |  CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Columnist Leonard Pitts wrote a story for the front page of last Sunday's Charlotte Observer indicting both parties for failing to speak up for…

Bill Clinton

Circa Clinton

Politics |  The former president's crowd-pleasing speech Wednesday night had convention delegates longing to have him in the White House again

Ted Strickland makes the motion

Democrats reinstate God and Jerusalem to party platform

Politics |  UPDATE: Campaign officials say President Barack Obama personally intervened to change language in his party's platform on Jerusalem and God. The officials…

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began her Asia tour in the Cook Islands

Missing in action

Politics |  Many well-known Democrats are absent from this week's national convention in Charlotte

Harry Knox

Proclaiming 'individual' religious liberty

Religion |  Liberal groups at the Democratic National Convention attempt to redefine religious liberty in their defense of the contraceptive mandate

Ellen Barkin

Tweets, seasoned with salt

Technology |  I've seen actress Ellen Barkin in a few movies, including The Big Easy with Dennis Quaid and Desert Bloom with Jon Voight. She's a liberal, like most in Hollywood…

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