Topic - Mitt Romney

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  CURL: Hillary Clinton will be the 2012 veep candidate

  Show of hands: Who here still thinks Vice President Joseph R. Biden will be on the 2012 ticket? Really? All of you? So wrong.

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  Obama adviser Axelrod: Religion not a campaign issue

  President Obama's senior adviser on Sunday pledged that the Democratic campaign won't target Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's Mormon faith.

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  Romney, Brown play down past connections

  Massachusetts Republicans Mitt Romney and Scott P. Brown have a history of supporting each other throughout their political careers.

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  Romney not attracting ex-rivals' donors

  Presumed Republican nominee Mitt Romney and his party raised a sizable $40 million last month from donors who want him to replace President Obama, but most of the people who supported his primary election challengers have not yet come to his aid.

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  Attack Wright? Wrong; Attack Bain? Refrain

  The economy remains the driving issue in the 2012 presidential campaign, but both sides have in recent days taken detours to deal with distractions and ghosts from the past.

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  Obama, Romney use states' rights as they see fit

  The 10th Amendment, the amendment supposedly reserving for the states all powers not explicitly granted to the federal government, gets a lot of rhetorical love on the campaign trail.

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  In Colorado, same-sex marriage remains a hot issue

  Minutes after President Barack Obama announced he supported gay marriage, the Democratic governor of Colorado choked back tears in Denver as he ordered state lawmakers to reconsider a civil-unions measure that Republicans had defeated the day before.

• BOOK REVIEW: 'Chris Christie'

  "Chris Christie: The Inside Story of His Rise to Power" is a refreshing behind-the-curtain tell-all by veteran New Jersey reporters Bob Ingle and Michael Symons that gives the fullest picture yet of this rising Republican star.

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  PRUDEN: A little salt for the polls

  Public-opinion polling, like politics, prostitution and punditry, is an honorable enough profession, if properly understood and taken with enough salt. But usually it isn't.

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  Romney denounces idea of Obama-Wright campaign ads

  Mitt Romney swiftly and firmly distanced himself Thursday from a group exploring plans to target President Barack Obama's relationship with a controversial former pastor. But the revival of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright as a campaign issue momentarily placed race at the center of the presidential contest and showcased the independent groups playing a new role this year with big-money TV ads.

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  Obama seeks to woo military vote from Republicans

  Democrats lost the veterans vote by big margins in the last two presidential elections, but Obama campaign officials said Thursday they intend to reverse that trend by arguing that Mitt Romney would cut veterans' benefits.

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  Romney close to Obama in fundraising

  Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's fundraising is going so well that people are literally trying to tuck checks into his pocket on the campaign trail.

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  GOP Senate hopes once again rest on insurgents

  For Senate Republicans, 2012 is starting a lot like 2010. They have a shot at taking control away from Democrats as long as insurgent conservatives who are defeating the party's more establishment candidates in primaries don't frighten too many independent voters like they did two years ago.

• Inside Politics: Obama order tries to aid democracy in Yemen

  President Obama issued an executive order Wednesday allowing the Treasury Department to freeze the U.S.-based assets of anyone obstructing the administration-backed political transition in Yemen.

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  Nebraska sets stage for Kerrey-Fischer race

  An insurgent Republican lawmaker in Nebraska will square off against former Sen. Bob Kerrey this fall in the state's U.S. Senate race, as Democrats look to hold onto the Senate seat and control of one part of Capitol Hill.

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