US elections

Voters in New Hampshire are casting their ballots in the first primary in America’s presidential race. Channel 4 News asks whether Mitt Romney will get the convincing victory he needs.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is the overwhelming favourite to capture the New Hampshire primary, despite suffering criticism over a gaffe he made about enjoying firing people.

Mitt Romney didn’t win convincingly in Iowa and just one of his rivals has bowed out. But he’s got cash, he’s got organisation: the Republican nomination is still his to lose, writes Felicity Spector.

Mitt Romney has won Iowa with the narrowest of margins. But as Felicity Spector reports, there is no rest for a would-be president, as candidates head for the next step on the campaign trail.

In America’s election year, Iowa – the first state to choose who should become the Republican party’s nominee – is where the presidential campaign begins in earnest, writes Felicity Spector.

Rupert Murdoch joined the twittersphere at the weekend. But how do the media magnate’s businesses stand to gain from his tweets about politicians, the weather and domestic life?

At the “invisible primary” in rural Iowa, candidates for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination battle to get the most out of this conservative state, writes US journalist Tawanda Kanhema.

More riots in the summer, Cameron in trouble and Obama re-elected – just three predictions for 2012 from a political astrologer writing for Channel 4 News. Read on for more.

The 2012 US presidential campaign begins in earnest today when Republicans in the predominantly rural state of Iowa vote to decide who they want to represent them in November’s election.

The former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has suffered another blow to his Presidential hopes: he’s failed to get on the ballot for the Republican primary in his own state, writes Felicity Spector.

Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain has a “Rick Perry moment” while being questioned about Libya in a television interview.