Why are the presidential candidates spending so much time raising so much money? To buy TV ads. In Ad Watch, we review the results of their heroic efforts as they come out. Today: President Obama has ...

On Friday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney answered questions from the press corps relating to the links between President Barack Obama’s campaign and the subject of a controversial ad put out ...

WASHINGTON — More pro-Obama television commercials than pro-Romney spots aired in the first three weeks of October, according to a new analysis by the Wesleyan Media Project — a stark reminder that ...

(CNN) – President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign is spending record amounts of money for online advertising and more than twice as much as his Republican rival, a CNN analysis of campaign finance ...

Obama's target is an ad by the conservative American Issues Project, a nonprofit group that questions Obama's ties to Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground organization that took credit for a ...

Video: Images of a young mother carrying her child, a man in a hard hat lifting his lunch cooler out of his truck, images of Mitt Romney buttoning his suit next to a woman smiling, images of Romney ...

The general election has begun! And so has the onslaught of campaign ads. Which ones succeed? Which fail? In Ad Watch, we review them as they come out. Today: President Obama goes after Mitt Romney's ...

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Holy fucking shit. This is the most brutal attack ad I’ve seen in a long, long time. It minces the hell out of Romney’s offshore fortunes and his record as a jobs exporter (in the private and public ...

I’m really surprised the Obama campaign is letting the Romney campaign frame the Medicare fight like this: Now, all of a sudden, Obama is the mean man who wants to cut Medicare and Romney and Ryan are ...

The New York Times reported yesterday: American Crossroads, the biggest of the Republican “super PACs,” is planning to begin its first major anti-Obama advertising blitz of the year, a moment the ...