It sounds like a well worn narrative: A Tea Party-backed candidate is giving a long-serving establishment candidate a run for his money. But the Texas Republican Senate primary race to fill the seat left open by Kay Bailey Hutchison's retirement is not ...

President Obama was in Iowa on May 24. He visited Newton, a town helped along by a wind turbine factory TPI Composites. In a speech there he called on Congress to extend tax credits for clean energy companies. He said this area was responsible for generating 37,000 jobs.

By David Jackson, USA TODAY President Obama offered an earthy rural metaphor to blast Mitt Romney last night in Iowa, saying the Republican candidate offered voters "a cowpie of distortion" in a recent speech. "I don't know whose record he twisted the ...

It's a holiday weekend, and the politics schedule shows it. It's thin through Monday. The John Edwards jury goes into its sixth day of deliberations Friday. Only the jurors know how close they are — or are not — to a verdict, but there's plenty of ...

(CBS News) President Obama and Mitt Romney are in for a protracted battle over the presidency, but the most important issue may be out of either man's control, CBS News Political Director John Dickerson said Friday. "The lesson of history is that if ...