Meet the television star of the fledgling 2012 general election campaign: the sad sack. Two handsome presidential candidates have been displaced by hard-knock folks with unkempt beards and furrowed ...

We live in the age of the iPhone, yet the 2012 presidential campaign has so far been run on Betamax. In the Republican primary, new media and mobile technologies are next to incidental, subsumed by a ...

In the 2012 campaign for president, the news cycle has been replaced by the gaffe cycle. Back in the day, and even four years ago, certain signature events all but guaranteed a full 24-hours of ...

Vowing that “the monologue is over,” President Obama’s campaign team announced Wednesday that the president is ready to kick off the 2012 campaign, holding his first official rallies next week in two ...

MICHIGAN — It was hard. That’s how Marisa Schultz, political reporter for The Detroit News, sums up the experience of covering her first presidential campaign. Or, to put it another way: “It was the ...