With Greg Giroux and Emma Fidel President Barack Obama put it succinctly in 2010: the Democrats suffered a “shellacking” in the mid-terms, and he took the blame. Republicans won a net gain of 63 seats in the House, their biggest...
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Sen. Claire McCaskill steps off her campaign bus to speak to the media outside Bayless Elementary School, on Oct. 31, 2012, in St. Louis County, Mo.
Senate Races to Watch Tuesday
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Mitt Romney, Republican presidential candidate, left, and U.S. President Barack Obama arrive to participate in a presidential debate at the University of Denver in Colorado.
Obama-Romney: Tied for 10 Days
For the 10th consecutive night in ABC News/Washington Post tracking polls, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are virtually tied among likely voters — today, it’s 49 percent Obama, 48 percent Romney, a statistical tie in a survey with...
Read more »Obama: Some States `Tight as a Tick’ — Romney: `We’re All Catholic’
President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign has posted a contest-closing Web video explaining “what we’re fighting for” and where he and Republican Mitt Romney differ — touting the small donors who have financed more than one-third of his campaign. “We’ve got...
Read more »Campaign for Swing-State Jewish Vote Seeks Inroads Against Obama
The Republican Jewish Coalition, whose board of directors includes casino executive Sheldon Adelson, has spent more than $6 million to try to peel away Jewish voters from President Barack Obama by raising questions about his commitment to Israel and his...
Read more »Clinton: Obama `Has Done a Good Job with a Bad Hand’
In the end, it took Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, to help fulfill the narrative that President Barack Obama has been writing since the keynote convention speech he delivered at the Democratic National Convention in Boston in...
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Contributors
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Al Hunt
is a columnist for Bloomberg View and host of the weekly show "Political Capital with Al Hunt" on Bloomberg TV. -
Mark Silva
is deputy managing editor for government news in Washington and editor of Political Capital. He has covered the White House and national politics. -
Emma Fidel
is political editor for Bloomberg.com in Washington. She previously covered financial regulation as a Bloomberg intern. -
Don Frederick
edits political and government coverage for Bloomberg News. He previously worked for more than a decade at the Los Angeles Times' Washington bureau. -
Gregory Giroux
analyzes elections, financing of congressional and presidential elections, political advertising and demographics in Bloomberg's Washington Bureau. -
Julie Bykowicz
covers the influence of money and lobbying in Washington, and covered the state legislature and city crime for the Baltimore Sun for 10 years. -
Jonathan Salant
covers campaign finance and lobbying in Washington. He was president of the National Press Club and started in Washington in 1987. -
Richard Rubin
covers federal tax policy. He worked at Congressional Quarterly and The Charlotte Observer before joining Bloomberg News in 2010. -
Stephanie Green
is a writer and photographer for Bloomberg Muse, the arts and leisure section of Bloomberg News. She has also written for The Washington Post, The Huffington Post and The Washington Times. -
Julie Hirschfeld Davis
is a senior political reporter for the Washington Bureau. She covered the 2012 campaign for Bloomberg News and previously covered the White House for the Baltimore Sun. -
Lisa Lerer
covers the White House and covered the 2012 campaign for Bloomberg News. She covered Congress, lobbying and the 2008 campaign for Politico. -
John McCormick
is a national political reporter looking forward to the 2016 presidential campaign, which will be the fifth he's covered. He's also reported for The Des Moines Register and Chicago Tribune. -
Julianna Goldman
covers the White House for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Television. -
Hans Nichols
covers the White House for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Television. -
Margaret Talev
covers the White House for Bloomberg News and covered the White House for McClatchy Newspapers. She has covered California and Florida politics. -
Cary O'Reilly
is Editor at Large at Bloomberg First Word and is Washington Daybook columnist for Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg News.
