Two pro-life groups endorse Romney

GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney got back-to-back endorsements from prominent pro-life groups Thursday, signaling that anti-abortion forces will overlook his previous pro-choice positions in their shared desire to defeat President Obama in the general election.

NRA seeking 'reassurance' from Romney

When Mitt Romney speaks to the National Rifle Association on Friday it will bring into focus a major difference between him and President Obama: One is counting on Second Amendment voters to show up at the polls, while the other has sidestepped gun-related issues in the run-up to the election.

Biden says paying higher taxes 'patriotic'

As part of the Obama administration's push to raise more taxes from the wealthy, Vice President Joseph R. Biden told an audience in New Hampshire Thursday that paying higher taxes is "patriotic."

Decades-old law opened doors for big-money donors

Despite sentiment that court rulings in 2010 gave rise to revolutionized super PAC campaign financing, three-quarters of the $86 million in ads this election cycle could have been purchased under a little-noticed, decades-old law.

Who foots bill when Obama travels?

When President Obama traveled to Florida this week, he sandwiched a partisan speech at Florida Atlantic University between two multimillion-dollar fundraisers for his 2012 campaign, allowing him to label at least part of the trip to a critical battleground state as official business.

Gibe at Ann Romney opens a new front in 'war on women'

The importance of female voters to the 2012 vote came into stark view Thursday as President Obama's campaign advisers furiously tried to contain the fallout from a prominent Democratic consultant's comment that Ann Romney, wife of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and the mother of five sons, "never worked a day in her life."

Santorum's Colorado delegates are at sixes and sevens

The Colorado Republican State Convention kicks off Friday, but don't be surprised if Rick Santorum's delegates aren't quite ready to party.

Obama team faces furor over Ann Romney gibe

Social conservatives looking for a reason to love Romney

Social conservatives who backed Rick Santorum's presidential campaign said his supporters will get behind Mitt Romney, but warned that the presumptive Republican nominee still has a lot more to do if he wants those activists to man phone banks and knock on doors in the drive to win in November.