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US elections – can money buy victory?
Winning the fund raising arms race doesn’t always mean winning the race, but without money you can’t even get started at any level of American politics.
There is not just a gender gap in American politics: there is a gender chasm. Women – or at least single women – are overwhelmingly pro-Democrat. But why? And could that change?
Shauna Prewitt was raped aged 21 and fell pregnant. She tells Channel 4 News why Todd Akin’s comments left her “spiralling back down” despite her love for the child she chose to keep.
Todd Akin resists pressure to resign as Republican senate nominee for Missouri, as the row over comments he made about rape threatens to overshadow the election campaign.
Just when they thought it was safe to talk about the economy, the Republicans are plunged into a row over a Senate candidate’s comments that women do not get pregnant from “legitimate rape”.
It is cracked – but not broken yet. That old political glass ceiling is still blocking women from reaching the very top of American political power. What is going wrong?
US presidential candidate Mitt Romney picks Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin congressman, as his running mate for November’s election.
Dishonest, discredited, and a bundle of outright fabrications. That’s how the latest ads from both the Obama and Romney camps have been received. Can politics be reaching such depths – already?
It’s an American fried chicken chain with roots in evangelical politics. But now Chick Fil-A is at the centre of a national political storm over its CEO’s comments against gay marriage.
President Obama has called for more gun controls after the Colorado cinema massacre left twelve people dead -but activists say they want concrete action to prevent more violence.
He insulted his British hosts before he even arrived – and was mocked by London mayor Boris Johnson in front of thousands. But this isn’t the first time Mitt Romney has bashed the Brits.
Mitt Romney isn’t just meeting political leaders on his visit to London – he’s doing some serious fundraising too. But his trip didn’t get off to the best of starts.
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.
Winning the fund raising arms race doesn’t always mean winning the race, but without money you can’t even get started at any level of American politics.