Midterm elections: special report

It was the moment when President Obama was confronted with liberal disappointment in his presidency – and appeared to respond with a new slogan: “Yes we can, but…”, writes Felicity Spector.

With the US midterm elections looming, Washington Correspondent Sarah Smith goes in search of an elusive candidate and finds cobwebs at the Tea Party.

The backlash against President Obama in the US midterm elections has even spread to those who depend on the aid they could lose if the Republicans win power, as Sarah Smith reports from Kentucky.

They’re the most important voters in the Democratic party base. Now President Obama is reaching out to women in an all-out effort to win over crucial support, writes Felicity Spector.

A surge in the number of female candidates in the running or the US mid term elections is changing the face of US politics, writes Washington correspondent Sarah Smith.

A well-timed leak of the juiciest bits to the Washington Post and the New York Times guaranteed Bob Woodward’s book a slot on the bestseller lists. Job Rabkin looks at the revelations in detail.

That’s the question many Americans still can’t answer. Before he was even elected Obama was called “the biggest celebrity in the world” Yet most Americans feel they still don’t really know him.

New Republican senate candidate Christine O’Donnell dismisses comments she made more than a decade ago about having a “picnic on a satanic altar” while dabbling in witchcraft.

The far-right Tea Party movement in America has scored some significant wins over more mainstream Republican rivals to get the chance to contest November’s mid-term elections.

Obama won a landmark battle to extend health insurance to millions of Americans in March 2010. Channel 4 News visited US hospitals and talked to documentary maker Michael Moore about Obama’s change.