Obama kicks off campaign in Ohio

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Polls: Obama has slight edge in 3...

President Barack Obama holds a narrow advantage over Republican challenger…

Santorum endorses Cruz in Texas Senate race

Former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum threw his weight behind Te…

Joe Biden pushing Buffett rule

Biden's favorability dips

While his boss has seen his favorability ratings fluctuate during their fi…

Polls: Obama ahead of Romney in Wisconsin

Two new polls released Thursday indicate President Barack Obama is holding…

Unemployment chart

Romney, Obama trade shots over unemployment

Mitt Romney promises to bring unemployment down to six percent if he becom…

Romney defends class size stance to teachers

Mitt Romney, who is spending this week promoting a plan for America's publ…

Biden lunching for campaign cash

Call it coast to coast fundraising.

While President Barack Obama raises cam…

Romney rally in Florida

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Romney backs up 6% unemployment claim

Mitt Romney, who on Wednesday said he would bring the nation's unemploymen…

Polls: Democrats slightly ahead in three...

New polls released Thursday show Democrats ahead of Republicans in three b…

Walker up by single digits in two new...

With 12 days to go until the recall election of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walke…

No apologies from woman who bashed piñata of...

She took a baseball bat to a piñata bearing the likeness of South Carolina…

Romney hits Obama on 'productivity' slam

Mitt Romney took his Democratic rival to task Thursday, saying a remark fr…

Mitt Romney expands on 'day one' promises

Cutting the federal deficit and standing up to China on trade are two of t…

Democratic group infuses another $1 million...

With less than two weeks to go until the recall election of Wisconsin Gov.…

Poll: Massachusetts candidates tied in...

The Massachusetts race for a U.S. Senate seat remains deadlocked between S…

Some Democrats see immigration inaction as...

The congressional impasse on immigration may be a political calculation by…

Clinton, top U.S. military leaders request...

The United States must secure its rights for rare minerals and oil under t…

Romney met with McConnell

Mitt Romney met with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell during a quick…

Senator pushes clearer limits on...

As Congress debates the size and scope of defense budgets in a looming age…

Allen: U.S. troop drawdown from Afghanistan...

The man in charge of the war in Afghanistan said Wednesday that about a qu…

April birthdays - Colin Powell

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April 5: Colin Powell (1937)
Others: Roger Corman (1926)

Powell favors same-sex marriage

Gen. Colin Powell said Wednesday on CNN's "The Situation Room" that he sup…

Hotel Caribe 1

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Secret Service scandal: systemic problem or...

Time after time Wednesday, Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan insisted …

Rubio: Political fighting threatens American...

In a speech blasting partisanship on Wednesday, Republican Sen. Marco Rubi…

Romney calls for more school choice

Calling the nation's falling educational standards "the civil rights issue…

Romney in SC

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Romney promises to bring unemployment down...

After repeatedly pinning the president for the unemployment level, which n…

Obama flies west to find gold

As part of the race to collect campaign cash, President Barack Obama is ex…

New poll: Obama maintains large lead among...

On the day Mitt Romney reached out to Latino voters at a gathering in the …

Barack Obama

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Arizona secretary of state closes Obama...

Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett wrote in a statement Wednesday his …

Obama campaign pits president vs. Romney on...

President Barack Obama's recent decision to support same-sex marriage was …

Gov. Deval Patrick

Mass. gov.: Romney's job creation record...

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, a Democrat, suggests his state is doing …

Mitch McConnell

McConnell: Obama administration 'most...

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, says Presiden…

Mitt Romney at luncheon

Romney: Obama has decided to attack success

Presumptive GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney attacks President Obama…

Obama file

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Obama defends global leadership

President Barack Obama delivered a strong defense of his international lea…

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Presidential primary and caucus results

The Iowa caucuses on January 3 officially kick off the 2012 presidential e…

Romney blows through cold to fund-raise

A nagging head cold hasn't kept Mitt Romney from working feverishly to fil…

URGENT - Secret-Service-Resignations

(CNN) -- Two of the Secret Service agents who initially said they would re…

Obama in Oval Office

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Despite frustrated GOP, 'birthers' still...

Dark theories about President Barack Obama's citizenship show no signs of …

Former Obama official: Romney wrong to tout...

Piling on to the debate over Mitt Romney's private equity career, the pres…

Obama in Charlottesville

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Obama campaign expands Bain attack

The Obama re-election campaign is putting in almost $150,000 for an additi…

Obama campaign highlights Medicare &...

President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is out with two new TV ads W…

Haley to campaign with Walker in Wisconsin

With less than two weeks left before the Wisconsin recall election, Republ…

Arkansas, Kentucky primaries pose challenge...

President Barack Obama faced unlikely challenges in two Southern state pri…

RGA hits Barrett in seventh Wisconsin ad

The Republican Governors Association, which has been aggressively backing …

Romney in NYC

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CNN Poll of Polls: Obama, Romney tied

It's basically all knotted up between President Barack Obama and presumpti…

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Nancy Reagan still recovering from fall

Nancy Reagan is recovering from a number of broken ribs sustained in a fal…

Romney and Obama

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Romney wins in Arkansas, Kentucky

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, already the presumptive Republican …

Poll: Romney takes lead in Florida

A poll released Wednesday morning indicates that Mitt Romney holds a six p…

U.S. senators: Al Qaeda calls for...

An al Qaeda video calling for "electronic jihad" illustrates the urgent ne…

Obama in Seattle

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Obama's foreign policy outpolls economics

Voters are nearly evenly split between President Barack Obama and GOP cand…

Kelly Ayotte

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Ayotte wants to take on Biden

Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, frequently mentioned as a possible run…

Cory Booker

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Obama campaign says Booker spoke with DNC

As it turns out, Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker did talk with an off…

Palin endorses Utah's Hatch in Senate race

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has weighed into another race for the U.S. …

Romney and Obama

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Projections: Romney wins in Arkansas,...

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, already the presumptive Republican …

Out of the shadows in death: The CIA honors...

When you're a spy, you have to accept the fact that everything you do will…

Obama-Romney

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Poll: Obama, Romney tied as race heats up

Less than six months ahead of November's general election, Americans are s…

Biden: Bain is legitimate, but a poor...

Though by and large a legitimate business venture, Mitt Romney's private e…

'Other-ness': What Obama and Romney have in...

The uproar last week over a proposed campaign ad highlighting President Ba…

Crossroads spends $10 million to hit Obama...

Crossroads GPS, the conservative super PAC co-founded by Karl Rove, announ…

Sununu: Bain critics 'attacking American way...

Opponents calling into question Mitt Romney's tenure as the chief executiv…

Obama-Romney

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Truce between Obama and Romney on faith?

A political truce may be brewing between the Obama and Romney campaigns on…

In first TV ad, opponent challenges Hatch to...

The main Republican candidate running against Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah upp…

Congress

Congressional speaking abilities decline

If the findings of a new study on congressional speech levels represented …

Cory Booker

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Right's rhetoric is worse than left's,...

Cory Booker, the Democratic mayor of Newark, N.J., who said Sunday politic…

Obama in Joplin

Obama calls Joplin High graduates an...

Calling the students an inspiration "to me (and) the world," President Bar…

US Capitol

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Senate passes Iran sanctions bill

The U.S. Senate unanimously voted to tighten sanctions on Iran on Monday, …

Hamid Karzai

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Karzai bans Congressman from Afghanistan

If Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-California, an influential member of the House…

Obama in Seattle

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Obama calls Romney's Bain record fair game

President Barack Obama took Mitt Romney to task on Monday, arguing the lik…

Chris Christie

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Christie to fund-raise for Romney

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will appear at a Tuesday fund-raiser in New…

Bill Clinton

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Obama, Clinton to hold second joint...

It's 44 and 42, part two.

Gingrich: Bain is fair game, but Democrats...

Having levied his own criticism on Mitt Romney's background leading the pr…

States urge feds to help import lethal...

A nationwide shortage of a commonly used imported drug used in capital pun…

Romney campaign buys second week of ads

Mitt Romney's campaign purchased a second week of ads on Monday, according…

Obama campaign: We didn't ask for Booker...

President Barack Obama's campaign spokesman said Monday that neither the p…

Dick Cheney

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Cheney to fundraise for Romney

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, will host a fundrai…

Vote, election file

GOP problem: 'Their voters are white, aging,...

When presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney appears befor…

Same-sex marriage

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NAACP backs same-sex marriage

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Saturday…

Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound

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Bin Laden raid nets one intel employee big...

The identities of the Navy SEALs who raided Osama bin Laden's compound rem…

Dems enter second week of Bain attacks amid...

President Barack Obama's re-election team began their second week of attac…

Obama in Seattle

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Voters split between Obama, Romney on top 3...

A survey released Monday showed Americans split over which presidential co…

Perry makes voice heard in Texas Senate race

Texas Gov. Rick Perry cut a TV new ad backing Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in h…

Obama and Karzai

Afghan exit plan at forefront of NATO summit

World leaders are gathered in Chicago for the 25th NATO summit and at the …

Pro-Obama super PAC fund-raising lags behind...

The super PAC supporting President Barack Obama's re-election reported rai…

Voting check mark

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Why third parties still fail despite voter...

They had the money. They had the organization. They had the ballot access.…

Ann Romney, Mitt Romney

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Romneys donate own money to campaign

Mitt and Ann Romney each donated $75,000 this week to the so-called Romney…

Political jabs are 'nauseating,' mayor says

Political jabs are 'nauseating,' mayor says

By: CNN Producer Gabriella Schw…

Marco Rubio

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Rubio unleashes harsh attack on Obama

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio condemned President Barack Obama on Saturday in u…

Mitt Romney

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Romney castigates California

Mitt Romney knows the chances of California going for him in November are …

Mitt Romney headshot

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Mitt Romney. Presidential Candidate.

Donations to pro-Romney super PAC have...

While Mitt Romney's major challengers suspended their campaigns and the pr…

John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi

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Boehner, Pelosi say they feel good heading...

Current House Speaker John Boehner and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi e…

Newt Gingrich

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Gingrich is millions in the hole

Newt Gingrich ended his campaign earlier this month with nearly $4.8 milli…

Newt Gingrich talking to reporters

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Gingrich stumps for Romney, calls for unity

In his first campaign swing for Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich this weekend ca…

Axelrod: Fund-raising pitch cited Wright...

David Axelrod on Sunday defended a fund-raising push on behalf of Presiden…

Barack Obama

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Obama ends April with $115M in bank

President Barack Obama's campaign ended the month of April with over $115 …

Hunger strike against Hatch?

The longest McKay Christensen has ever gone without food is 36 hours.

But n…

McMahon takes first at Conn. GOP convention

Former wrestling executive Linda McMahon won the Connecticut Republican co…

Minnesota same-sex marriage fight...

Minneapolis is a conflicted city. It's home to one of the largest gay prid…

Obama calls for financial regulation, GOP...

After a rough week in the investment industry, President Barack Obama used…

Republican, GOP, elephant

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NRCC narrowly edges Dem rivals in April...

The National Republican Campaign Committee, which is tasked with electing …

Bush to return to White House for ceremony

Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, will return to the Wh…

Romney and NH bridge

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Romney mocks 'bridge to nowhere'

Mitt Romney stood in front of a so-called "bridge to nowhere" Friday and m…

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