For Santorum, Pennsylvania is a double-edged sword

Rick Santorum is in a difficult place politically in his home state of Pennsylvania, where he hopes to revive his flagging presidential bid. A win for the state's former two-term senator in the April 24 primary wouldn't shock the world, while a loss to rival Mitt Romney could stick a fork in his White House hopes.

Conservatives ally for a reset of election expectations

Some influential conservative thinkers have concluded that Mitt Romney's struggle to ignite voter enthusiasm reflects a more serious problem for Republicans in setting unrealistic expectations for their presidential nominee.

Santorum plans on winning home state of Pennsylvania

Despite another disappointing primary night this week, Rick Santorum wants to remind Mitt Romney and GOP leaders that the presidential nomination is not sewn up and that this month's Pennsylvania primary is his campaign's make-or-break contest.

Gas numbers game is a loser for Obama

President Obama's poll numbers are up and the country's unemployment figures are down — but $4 gas poses a potent threat to the incumbent's re-election bid, polls show.

CURL: Divide and conquer — Obama knows exactly what he's saying

President Obama's remarks on the pending Supreme Court decision on his health care mandate weren't aimed at the justices, but at uninformed Americans, especially liberals.

Romney tells press to uncover Obama's secrets

Mitt Romney urged the country's news editors on Wednesday to delve more deeply into what he said were President Obama's secret second-term plans, telling them they have a duty to "do the seeking" to expose what the White House has in store.

GOP mocks Obama's 'Darwinism' attack

Kicking his campaign into high gear, President Obama on Tuesday said Republicans' vision of smaller government and lower taxes for the wealthy amounts to "thinly veiled social Darwinism," and cast his own fiscal blueprint, with its higher spending and taxes, as the way to sustain the social safety net.

FACT CHECK: Obama's incomplete history lesson

Few would quarrel with President Obama's point that the Republican Party has drifted to the right in recent years, disavowing ideas it once embraced — even created. But making that case in a major campaign speech, Obama ignored realities in his own Democratic ranks.

Romney sweeps GOP primaries in D.C., Maryland and Wisconsin

Mitt Romney swept Tuesday's primaries in Maryland, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia, putting more distance between himself and the rest of the GOP's presidential contenders in a race party leaders have said they'd like to see wrapped up soon.