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Sen. Barack Obama’s infomercial attracted 33.5 million viewers, according to Nielsen, making the pricey programming an effective message tactic. The

An editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal attacks President Obama’s cap-and-trade plan to curb carbon emissions as a regressive policy: Hit hardest would

A municipal ballot initiative has been introduced that would require Denver employers to provide their employees with paid sick days. Denver workers would receive up to nine days of sick leave each year

As the 2012 race in Colorado’s always hotly contested 4th congressional district officially kicked off this week, Republicans in Larimer County, the most populous county in the district, are suffering through another humiliating chapter in the unfolding history of incompetence and corruption that plagued the county party under the recent direction of Larry Carillo. Police issued a felony theft arrest warrant for the former party chairman Tuesday, accusing him of stealing more than $17,000 to pay bills and gambling debts

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has named House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R- MI) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred

Today the Obama campaign released a new ad slamming Sen. John McCain’s economic policies. While McCain talks about putting "country first," the ad

The heads of Detroit’s automakers might be willing to accept $1 salaries as a condition of a federal bailout, but they won’t commit to capping their total

Sarah Palin’s latest FEC numbers are in, and -- as with all things Palin-related -- it’s big news. As Politico opined in a story last night: In short, for the

At noon today, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), from his home on Main Street in East Haddam, officially announced his retirement from Congress at the end of the year.

In New York state, the legislature is poised to pass same-sex marriage and would become the third state to do so legislatively, following Vermont and New

In Vienna, United Nations members today signed off on the United Nations political declaration recommending global drug policy for the decade to come. Despite a

The Minnesota Supreme Court issued an order late Monday morning (pdf) denying an emergency motion from the Norm Coleman campaign to stop the State Canvassing

A new committee called Alaskans Standing Together is providing some major help to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in her longshot write-in bid for re-election.

The Texas Congressman has a new 60-second ad spot that highlights not only Ron Paul ‘s own background in the military, but features veterans discussing the ways that Paul has honored them. The ad is embedded below: The Paul campaign has said the full ad time buy is in excess of $1 million.

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee finished hearing directly from Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan yesterday, after 17 hours of question-and-answer

A state panel in California yesterday approved a proposal to require 33 percent of the state’s electricity from renewable sources by 2020. Environmentalists

An eastern Iowa man will run for House District 68, which includes Marion and the surrounding areas, he announced today. Daniel Lundby, 35, son of the late state Sen. Mary Lundby , will run as a Democrat, though he has previously identified as a Republican

Sen. Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee largely because of unprecedented turnout by young voters in key primary states. (More data below.) Last week,

Two Iowa labor experts — one a former labor attorney with more than 25 years experience and the other a communications professor who has extensively studied labor and the media — agree that it is difficult to view actions taken by the chairman of the U.S.

Is there an echo in here? In The New York Times today, op-ed columnist David Brooks blasts the Democrats’ House-passed stimulus package with the charge that