In aggressively advancing a populist message, the Obama campaign is betting it can hold onto enough working-class white voters while maintaining its relatively upscale coalition from 2008. But National Journal's Josh Krau...

Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s off-message criticism of the Obama campaign’s attacks on Mitt Romney’s background at Bain Capital gave the campaign an untimely, unwanted headache this week. But more significantly, it exposed a te...

Welcome back to Hotline Sort. The NRCC outraises the DCCC in April, Crossroads GPS is engaged in ruby-red Nebraska, and Mitt Romney goes up with his first general election ad, telling voters what he'd do as presi...

Welcome back to Hotline Sort. Mitt Romney's campaign and the RNC raised an impressive $40 million in April, a new Republican super PAC has been planning to introduce Jeremiah Wright into the presidential c...

For those who think Sen. Richard Lugar’s defeat was primarily attributable to running a weak campaign or for living outside of Indiana for decades, I’ve got one number in dissent: 38 percent. That’s the shoc...

Arkansas Democratic Rep. Mike Ross, who announced he wouldn't be running for re-election to the House last year, is abandoning his plans to run for governor of the state. The six-term congressman initially said h...

This presidential election is coming down to two immutable facts that have become increasingly clear as November draws closer: President Obama will be running for a second term under a stagnant economy, and his two most significan...

Welcome back to Hotline Sort. The tax wars continue in the Massachusetts Senate race, both parties are spending to win Giffords' seat, and Biden attacks Romney on foreign policy - while making a notable double-entendre. Meanwhile,...

Even if he doesn't get tapped as Mitt Romney's running mate, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is well-positioned to...