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Obama on gay marriage – a money-spinning electoral gamble
It’s already brought money flowing into his campaign coffers, but what will be the political fallout of President Obama’s decision to back gay marriage?
He credits himself with saving the Salt Lake City Olympics from scandal and collapse. Now Mitt Romney hopes his Olympic record can boost his electoral fortunes – or will the starting gun misfire?
They’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a relentless advertising blitz in key battleground states. So who’s behind the mega-donations fuelling the presidential campaigns?
Could Condoleezza Rice be returning to frontline politics? Speculation is mounting that she could be Mitt Romney’s vice-presidential running mate – and that he could announce his choice within weeks.
He is raising millions of dollars in a Hamptons fundraising drive this weekend. But even top Republican John Boehner has admitted the American people just do not like Mitt Romney. Ouch.
Barack Obama is hitting two key swing states in the first bus tour of his re-election campaign. In the battle for the blue-collar vote, he’s bashing his rival Mitt Romney’s big business ties.
In an unprecedented move the US House of Representatives votes to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for refusing to turn over documents relating to a botched gun-running sting.
The US Supreme Court is poised to decide if President Obama’s flagship healthcare law is unconstitutional – a landmark ruling which will have a huge impact on the country’s political future.
He is a brilliant political strategist, and a Chicago bruiser who moved from Congress to the White House as Obama’s chief of staff – then back to Chicago as mayor. But who is Rahm Emanuel?
It is one of the most critical weeks yet for the Obama administration – two decisions at the supreme court have major implications for the future of federal power.
The Republican governor of the US state of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, fights off an attempt to vote him out of office, in what is seen as a key test ahead of November’s presidential election.
In these times of austerity, a big public celebration like the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee might be just the thing to cheer up the nation. But can we afford it?
Mitt Romney wins the Republican presidential nomination and now has five months to convince US voters to trust him over Democratic President Barack Obama.
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney apologises, after reports that he bullied a classmate at his high school, who was presumed to be gay. Not good enough, say his critics.
It’s already brought money flowing into his campaign coffers, but what will be the political fallout of President Obama’s decision to back gay marriage?
President Barack Obama’s support for same-sex marriage is as shrewd as it is bold, calculated to reinvigorate core supporters and young Democrats while courting Hollywood donors, analysts say.