That’s how many years it’s been since a third consecutive U.S. president was inaugurated for a second time. President Barack Obama, who was sworn in to a second term Jan. 20 and delivered an inaugural address yesterday at the 57th presidential...
Read more »
Photograph by Larry Downing/Pool via Bloomberg
President Barack Obama takes the oath of office from Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, as first lady Michelle Obama holds the family bible next to daughter Malia Obama in the Blue Room of the White House on Jan. 20, 2013.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 192
Photograph by Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images
The crowd watches a large screen on the National Mall during President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration in Washington on Jan. 20, 2009.
Obama’s Second-Term Inauguration: `Era of Responsibility,’ Take Four
The White House is preparing for another inauguration. This one will span two days, with an official swearing in on the day required under the Constitution, Sunday the 20th, and a ceremonial swearing in outside the Capitol on Monday the...
Read more »
Photograph by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush’s New Job
Jeb Bush is taking on a task that Bill Clinton before him, and George H.W. Bush before that, has performed. No, it’s not the presidency of the United States. John Ellis Bush has been elected chairman of the board of...
Read more »
Photograph by Paul Taggart/Bloomberg
A private jet in New York.
Have Super-PAC, Will Travel
There was that night at the Four Seasons in Seattle. And a couple of check-ins at the W Hotel in San Francisco. There were dozens of flights on United — even a chartered plane. Super-political action committees spent more than...
Read more »
Photograph by Alex Wong/Getty Images
Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner at the Capitol for meeting with Congressional leaders on Nov. 29, 2012.
Geithner’s `Full Ginsburg:’ Sunday
Tim Geithner, secretary of the treasury, is performing a “Full Ginsburg” this weekend. That’s the colloquial term for what the point-man in the Obama administration’s fiscal cliff talks will achieve Sunday morning, when he appears on ABC’s “This Week,” CBS’s...
Read more »Revenge v. Love: Campaign Closing
Reported by Lisa Lerer and Julianna Goldman Campaigning in New Hampshire this morning, Republican Mitt Romney called out President Barack Obama for talking about “revenge.” He was pointing to Obama’s own campaign words in Ohio the day before. “No, no,...
Read more »
Photograph by Julia Schmalz/Bloomberg
Colin Powell, former U.S. secretary of state, during an interview in Washington.
Colin Powell’s TV Ad for Obama: `Keep on the Track We Are On’
Colin Powell, the retired Army general who served as secretary of state for one Republican president and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff for another, explains his endorsement of President Barack Obama in one of a series of election-closing...
Read more »
Photograph by Win McNamee/Getty Images
Ann Romney and First lady Michelle Obama prior to the Presidential Debate at the University of Denver on October 3, 2012.
Washington Daybook: Minding the Gender Gap
President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are at risk of being upstaged by their popular spouses in the race for the White House. Ann Romney will make four campaign stops today, compared with just three for her husband,...
Read more »
Photograph by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Mitt Romney makes a "U" with his hands next to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush during a campaign rally at University of Miami on October 31, 2012 in Coral Gables, Florida.
In The Hunt: Trouble in Campaign’s Final Days
Defense is the last position a politician should be in during the final days of a campaign, Bloomberg’s Al Hunt says in today’s “In the Hunt.” When former President Bill Clinton campaigns for President Barack Obama in Minnesota and Republican...
Read more »
Photograph by John Raoux/AP Photo
Former President Bill Clinton greets supporters after speaking at a campaign rally to for President Barack Obama at the University of Central Florida, on Oct. 29, 2012, in Orlando, Fla.
Bill Clinton Obama’s Florida Stand-In
President Barack Obama may have left Florida before an Orlando campus rally today. But the Sandy-occupied president left former President Bill Clinton as a stand-in. Clinton addressed a crowd of more than 7,000 at the University of Central Florida. And...
Read more »
Contributors
-
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. -
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.
