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Sen. Barack Obama is already helping lower the cost of gasoline, according to a new video from his campaign. Gas Station for Obama, a YouTube clip

In Newsweek’s seven-part series chronicling the juicy, behind-the-scenes moments of the presidential campaign, there was an interesting nugget about Gov. Sarah

Via Nico Pitney, a video made by a group called Iranian Artists in Exile, distributed via Facebook, about the opposition. Set against pictures of enormous

Byron York engages in a perennial conservative media stunt — breaking down poll numbers between blacks and whites to make the point that Democrats wouldn’t be

Today is third-quarter Federal Election Commission filing day, which means it’s the last day for candidates and political committees to report their hauls (and

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has brought 52 fellow Republicans together on a letter demanding the resignation of Kevin Jennings, the White House’s safe schools

Florida-based Ron Sachs Communications is out with a poll of the state’s U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races, showing Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) is the early

The fight over California’s Proposition 23, which seeks to roll back the state’s landmark legislation to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, is taking to the

A joint U.S.-Iraqi raid near Tikrit decapitated al-Qaeda’s Iraqi affiliate on Sunday. Two of the country’s most wanted terrorists, Abu Ayyub al Masri and Abu

The White House had any number of reasons to demand that General Services Administration Administrator Lurita Doan resign, which she did yesterday evening. Top

President Obama: As we make these decisions, bear in mind the following fact: nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal “supermax” prisons, which

Add insult to the self-inflicted injury of Sens. McCain, Lieberman and Graham, who yesterday urged President Obama not to repatriate Yemeni detainees at

From the conservative Committee for Justice, a key player in judicial nomination fights, comes this reaction to the nominations of one Hispanic and one

Ed Kilgore’s analysis of the reignited strategists-vs-Sarah Palin slow-news-week imbroglio is on the mark: This base of support for Palin -- maybe not that

If European politicians put restraints on Goldman, they’ll be punishing themselves, too.

Traders on the Iowa Electronic Markets seem convinced Republicans will retain control of the U.S. House in 2012 and gain control of the U.S. Senate

A relatively obscure document released by the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday bodes particularly ill for the chances of any form of meaningful campaign

The New York Times ran a front-page story on Sunday that tackles a thorny scientific and political issue: whether individual extreme weather events are evidence

Less than a week now remains until the beginning of Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings -- the Senate Judiciary Committee announced today that