Barack Obama

Both the President Obama and Mitt Romney campaigns are using sweepstakes to coax small donations. Do they work?

Super PAC's ad buy is one of the largest of the election so far

In the 2012 presidential election race, both parties focus on images of factories and hard hats.

There's a new bad word in the race for president: 'Outsourcing.' But the latest political back-and-forth, while dramatic, ignores the realities of the American economy.

The former governor talks about the importance of the middle class in this year's presidential election, and what he thinks Mitt Romney needs to do to improve his standings.

Liberal pundit James Carville explains why class matters in this year's presidential election in his new book, ''It's the Middle Class, Stupid!''

President Obama and Mitt Romney have different takes on the economy. Commentator Justin Wolfers says they're both right.

As President Obama's "Betting on America" tour gets underway, we ask a linguist: What does it mean to "bet" on the country?

It's been exactly a week since the Supreme Court announced that President Obama's healthcare overhaul is constitutional. Have Americans shifted their view of the law?

The presidential campaign has returned to the issue of private equity and the outsourcing of jobs. President Obama has latched onto a Washington Post report that says private equity firm Bain Capital, which Mitt Romney used to run, helped pioneer the outsourcing of jobs.