'What happened and where are we now?' GOP members hope to answer those questions – and maybe sneak in a round of golf After its general election battering, the Republican party has retreated t...
Several Republican legislatures fail to submit 'Obamacare' plans before deadline – defaulting power to federal government • Who will be operating your health insurance exchange? As a cruci...
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• House speaker reaffirms opposition to tax increases • Read Richard Adams's fiscal cliff live blog here John Boehner, the Republican speaker of the US House of Representatives, has dismiss...
What next for America's favourite losing presidential candidate? Here's some jobs Mitt Romney might create for himself Mitt Romney: call him Second Prize, the man who always wins the silver meda...
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Two weeks after Barack Obama's re-relection, the margin of his victory is still not known Two weeks ago, Barack Obama was triumphantly re-elected as US president. The strange thing is that the v...
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The Florida senator's risible answer on evolution, and his claim to be BFFs with Jim DeMint, show a man with 2016 on his mind Marco Rubio's transition from Tea Party upstart to Reaganesque presi...
Bill Clinton toured the swing states, Romney went big in Pennsylvania – and a new attack ad in Ohio kicked up a storm Like the huge crane dangling precipitously above Columbus Circle in a New ...
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President's unusual move calls for campaign to hand out 3.5m copies of printed manifesto in bid to sway undecided voters With two weeks to go until election day, the Obama campaign sought to mob...
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Forty-seven is the big number from the secretly taped video that bruised the candidate this week – but who else did he offend? While the 47% of Americans who don't pay federal income tax got m...
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Romney continued his criticism of the White House in an ill-advised press conference that deliberately conflated a statement issued in Cairo with the killing of US embassy staff Mitt Romney esca...
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Bill Clinton's presidency was a golden era of economic growth thanks to the luck of circumstances beyond his control The Obama campaign will be hoping to capture a bit of political magic when Bi...
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Republicans may be quick to jump on Stephanie Cutter's claims – but four years ago, the American economy truly was in crisis Stephanie Cutter, the Obama campaign's deputy director, was the unl...
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The GOP platform is more hardline than ever, and while it's a lot of posturing, at least some of it may prove significant Humans used to have tails, but all that's left is a vestigial coccyx. Am...
As Gawker's Bain files show, Romney's wealth is serious – and his financial instruments complex. What lessons can be drawn? Gawker's dump of 950 pages of documents detailing aspects of Mitt Ro...
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Todd Akin's ludicrous remarks on 'legitimate rape' terrifies the Republican party but offers an escape route over abortion There's no education in the second kick of a mule, as the former Speake...
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Join writers Ana Marie Cox, Harry Enten and Jason Farago in the US politics live week-in-review chat beginning at 11.30 ET In a move regarded with equal amounts fanfare and vitriol, the US supre...
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Follow the 2012 US presidential elections with our selection of the 50 top Twitter accounts for the latest news and views With the 2012 US presidential election heating up, we've selected the to...
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Pick the winners and losers of the Super Tuesday GOP presidential primaries and caucuses and win prizes There's no Tuesday like a Super Tuesday – and Tuesday 6 March is your chance to show off...
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Outdo the pollsters and correctly forecast the winners and losers of the Republican primaries in Michigan and Arizona America's opinion pollsters and political pundits can't predict the winner o...
Former US president Bill Clinton could be the transformative leader to replace Robert Zoellick as head of the World Bank The World Bank desperately needs to revive its fortunes after years of la...
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