Reflecting their political philosophies, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney take sharply divergent paths when it comes to taxing individuals and corporations. Their basic ...

When David Simas left Washington in 2011 and set out for Chicago and the Obama re-election campaign, things “looked bleak” for the incumbent president. For one thing, unemployment remained high in the ...

President Barack Obama hammered home his message of tax fairness at a community college in Iowa Tuesday just after Mitt Romney called him an "extreme liberal" at dueling swing state campaign event in ...

Hours after President Obama doubled down on his campaign's insistence that Mitt Romney respond to questions about whether or not he lied in SEC filings related to his tenure at Bain Capital, Romney ...

During the Republican primary, it seemed like Mitt Romney was the luckiest guy in the world-- he was born rich and handsome, and his competitors were buffoons. Now it seems like President Obama is the ...

President Obama's lead over Mitt Romney has shrunk to 4 percentage points from 11 points a month ago, now that Romney has emerged as the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, according to a ...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Wednesday congratulated Mitt Romney on securing the Republican presidential nomination, a gesture coupled with a new line of attack on the GOP challenger that ...

Mitt Romney is too much like Barack Obama. I don't see how he wins the 2012 GOP nod because he's got too much in common with the guy he wants to replace. Both men began a run for the White House ...