Updated: 6:28 AM President Obama has opened up significant leads over Mitt Romney in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida, according to a new Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times poll of likely voters.
Posted: 5:45 AM The embarrassing NFL referee saga and the disputed call that gave the Seattle Seahawks a victory over the Green Bay Packers on Monday night has reached the campaign for the White House.
Posted: 12:37 PM The presidential candidates are criticizing each other in new television commercials aimed at winning working-class voters who could help swing the election.
Posted: 7:08 AM Obama's campaign is launching a new offensive against Republican Mitt Romney, blasting the GOP nominee for criticizing Americans who don't pay income taxes without having "come clean" about his own.
Posted: 6:52 AM South Carolina is in federal court arguing that its new law requiring people prove their identity at the polls won't make voting so tough that it reduces turnout of African-Americans, Hispanics and other minorities.
Posted: 5:47 AM Some Hamilton County Democratic Party leaders want their chairman to apologize after he printed an off-color joke about women on a meeting agenda.
Posted: 2:30 PM Romney's campaign earlier estimated that Romney would pay about $3.2 million in taxes. Romney paid about $3 million in federal income taxes in 2010 -- or 13.9 percent.
Posted: 10:43 AM Grasping for a way to right his campaign and appeal to independents, the Republican nominee said he has what it takes to end the nasty partisanship in the nation's capital.
Posted: 7:04 AM Deidra Reese is part of a cadre of black women engaged in a revived wave of voting rights advocacy four years after the historic election of the nation's first black president.
Posted: 12:44 PM A Knoxville woman has received her free state identification to vote after being denied a ballot in the Aug. 2 primary.
Posted: 9:54 AM Buoyed by good mojo coming out of last month's national political conventions, Obama's approval rating is back above 50 percent for the first time since May.
Posted: 7:03 AM Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Chris Devaney and elected officials will provide media tours of the Knox County Victory Headquarters.
Posted: 6:05 AM A bad stretch for Mitt Romney just got worse, and Republican insiders now are growing increasingly pessimistic about the GOP presidential nominee's chances of winning the White House.
Posted: 1:30 PM An appeals court on Tuesday reversed a lower court ruling that likely would have led to greater disclosure of who is paying for certain election ads.
Posted: 12:10 PM Romney says that Palestinians are "committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel" and that the prospects for a two-state solution to Mideast peace were dim.
Posted: 7:14 AM Romney offered no apologies for his remarks, and when he was asked if he was concerned he had offended anyone, he conceded the comments weren't "elegantly stated" and they were spoken "off the cuff."
Posted: 6:46 AM President Barack Obama's re-election campaign doesn't want to talk about what the Democrat is doing to prepare for the fall debates with Republican Mitt Romney.
Posted: 6:26 AM Republican Mitt Romney is making a fresh appeal to Latino voters and trying to cut into President Barack Obama's advantage with a key portion of the electorate.
Posted: 6:09 AM Rutherford GOP Chairman Austin Maxwell said they want to make it convenient for voters in Smyrna and La Vergne to pick up yard signs and bumper stickers for the national and local races.
Posted: 7:01 AM Republican activists are incredulous: Why can't Republican Mitt Romney seem to break open a tight race with President Barack Obama given the nation's sluggish economy and conservative enthusiasm to beat the Democrat?
Posted: 6:58 AM Mitt Romney will seek this week to explain more about what he would do as president, a strategy shift intended to change the trajectory of a race that President Barack Obama appears to be winning.
Posted: 6:13 AM Senior administration officials said Obama will announce the new action, targeting Chinese subsidies for exports of automobiles and automobile parts, Monday during a campaign trip to Ohio
Posted: 6:02 AM His remarks were an impassioned election-season plea from a world leader who insists he doesn't want to insert himself into U.S. politics and hasn't endorsed either candidate.
Posted: 2:23 PM The electronic poll books drew fire after reports that voters who did not specify which party primary ballot they wanted were assigned a Republican ballot.
