2008 Election Results

President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is beginning to express some confidence that the president's historic, yet politically risky, embrace of gay marriage may not hurt him in the November election. In a conference call announcing efforts to get ...  

In this diary earlier today we learned the story of an elderly veteran who went for his daily outing to his local rec center while wearing an Obama T-shirt. He got crosswise with election law because the center was also functioning as an early ...  

Yes, presidential elections are ultimately won in the electoral college, but the college usually follows the popular vote ... said they would definitely vote in November elections. In these states, approval for Obama's handling of the mortgage ...  

Admirable as President Obama’s decision was to support same-sex marriage last week, its implications for his reelection chances are still being debated. Indeed, the latest polling has been less than reassuring. Both a New York Times/CBS News ...  

Chicago (CNN) – Kicking off a five-stop fundraising blitz in his hometown of Chicago on Friday, President Barack Obama contrasted his policies with those of the Republican presidential candidates, declaring to a ballroom of supporters that November's election will mark a "make-or-break moment" for America. "They have a simple philosophy: We are better off when [...]  

Kicking off a five-stop fundraising blitz in his hometown of Chicago, President Obama contrasted his policies with those of the GOP presidential candidates, declaring to a ballroom of supporters that November's election will mark a "make-or-break moment" for America.  

John J. Pitney, Jr. says that presidential elections depend on the big things: bread and butter, war and peace. Reality trumps rhetoric.