Robert Spitzer, a SUNY Cortland distinguished service professor and a frequent political commentator on national politics, will predict the outcome of the U.S. presidential race an entire year before ...

Forget polls. Sports, coffee and kids can predict whether Romney beats Obama. Sept. 24, 2012 -- intro: The latest polls may show the presidential race deadlocked between President Obama and Mitt ...

Anyone clicking on the homepage of the Tampa Bay Times today will find the newspaper's coverage of the Republican National convention nearly entirely squeezed out by two opposing ads, one paid for by ...

Want to watch the 2012 election results as they come in but don’t want to sit at home alone, screaming at the television? Or maybe you just want to celebrate an end to political campaign ads (until ...

The election is a time for taking sides — on issues, on candidates, on which of the watching parties has the best drink specials. But this year’s election joined a few sides along the way. (This is ...

That year-long slog from the GOP primary to Election Day last November required a lot of money, according to officials at the Federal Election Commission, who told reporters today that the recent ...

Whoever wins the presidential election in November will confront urgent problems: Should tax cuts scheduled to expire be renewed? Should federal spending be cut to reduce the deficit or would that ...

Like a slow, elderly Miami driver who’s always got his turn signal on, Florida continually gives us electoral gridlock. In the nation’s largest swing state, the presidential race between Barack Obama ...

(The Root) — It’s going to get ugly, really ugly. And that’s saying something. The 2012 presidential campaign has already seen its fair share of negative advertising on both sides. We must all prepare ...

Against the backdrop of a presidential election that will set Barack Obama against Mitt Romney, Election 2012 is officially underway. Adding to the intrigue: scrambled political lines thanks to ...

When you head to the polls this week to cast a vote for the prez or to throw your weight behind Mittens, you might be surprised to find one of the longest ballots ever created. You’d never know it ...