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Lynn Sweet is the Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun-Times. She writes a column and a blog for the paper. She has covered politics …Read More

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Stung by Romney blitz, Gingrich fires back

THE VILLAGES, Fla. — Newt Gingrich punched chief rival Mitt Romney on Sunday, stung by a Romney team Florida blitz energized — ironically and of necessity — by Gingrich’s South Carolina primary win. Gingrich, anxious to buy time if the polls are right and Romney …

State of the Union: Speech is something for Obama to ‘build’ on

The Obama team’s newest slogan, “An America built to last,” rolled out this week for President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, is brawny and evocative of a headline on a car ad.

Newt needs a lesson about Saul Alinsky

WASHINGTON — GOP White House hopeful Newt Gingrich constantly — the latest time on Sunday — invokes the name of the late Saul Alinsky — a Chicago native — when he wants to assert that President Barack Obama is a “radical.” Gingrich, a historian, demonstrates …

  • South Carolina revives Gingrich, who slams ‘elites’ after win

    Newt Gingrich stormed to an upset win in the South Carolina primary Saturday night, dealing a sharp setback to Mitt Romney and scrambling the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

    • Can Gingrich leverage breaks into sweeping South Carolina win?

    CHARLESTON, S.C .— A day before the crucial GOP South Carolina presidential primary, Newt Gingrich is on a trajectory to give Mitt Romney a thumping — but comic Stephen Colbert’s rally with Herman Cain here was the biggest draw. With the Republican field now down …

    Gingrich on the attack at GOP debate in South Carolina

    GOP White House hopeful Newt Gingrich climbed on his pedestal at Thursday’s debate, biting off CNN host John King’s head, offended at being asked about a report that he asked his then wife for an “open marriage.”

  • Axelrod launching Institute of Politics at University of Chicago

    WASHINGTON — President Obama’s top strategist, David Axelrod, is launching an Institute of Politics at his alma mater, the University of Chicago, to create bipartisan programs bringing big names in politics to campus and internships for students. “If years from now I run across young …Read More

  • President aims to woo NASCAR voters with Southern convention

    WASHINGTON — The Obama re-election team is using the Charlotte, N.C., nominating convention to target, woo and deliver NASCAR voters in key battleground states. Convention organizers announced Tuesday the convention will kick off Labor Day at the giant Charlotte Motor Speedway, making public a plan …Read More

    • Perry, Santorum could be knocked off Illinois ballot

    WASHINGTON — White House hopeful Rick Perry did not file correctly for the March 20 Illinois primary “beauty contest,” and some of rival Rick Santorum’s delegate slates are short of signatures, leaving them open to challenges that could knock them off the ballot. Illinois law …

    Michelle weary of ‘angry black woman’ talk

    WASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama knows when the stuff about her being an angry black woman got started, and over time she hopes it will go away. “That’s been an image that people have tried to paint of me since, you know, the day …

    Democrats knock Romney’s N.H. win, but it mirrors Obama plan

    LYNN SWEET: The Obama team, no surprise, knocked down GOP White House hopeful Mitt Romney’s Tuesday primary win here because his vote was not big enough. They need to be careful because Romney is running a very smart campaign — studying, as football coaches do, Obama’s playbook.

    Huntsman aims to crack Romney’s edge in Granite State

    With GOP White House hopeful Mitt Romney poised to win Tuesday’s primary — as rivals start to punch harder — second place is up for grabs as the race moves on to South Carolina and Jon Huntsman needs to find a lifeline to hang on.

    Bill Daley out at White House months earlier than expected

    Bill Daley is resigning as President Barack Obama’s chief of staff just one year into the one of the most pivotal jobs in politics, senior administration officials said Monday, and will be replaced by Jacob Lew, the president’s budget director, at the end of this month.

    Newt: Drop the ‘pious baloney’

    MANCHESTER, N.H. — When GOP White House hopeful Mitt Romney said yet again on Sunday he was not a career politician, rival Newt Gingrich slapped down his dubious claim. “Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney?” said Gingrich at NBC’s “Meet the …

    Michelle chafed at Daley, Hynes, Madigan power lock

    WASHINGTON— When Michelle Obama worked in Mayor Daley’s City Hall in the early 1990s, she was “distressed” by how a small group of “white Irish Catholic” families — the Daleys, the Hynes and the Madigans — “locked up” power in Illinois. And as she prepared …

    Obama advisers belittle Romney: ‘He’s still the 25 percent man’

    DES MOINES — President Barack Obama’s top re-election advisers Jim Messina and David Axelrod belittled Mitt Romney’s eight-vote Iowa caucus win in a conference call Wednesday morning. Axelrod, Obama’s chief strategist, taunted Romney’s Iowa vote totals noting it was little better than he did when …

    Mitt Romney manages 8-vote win over Rick Santorum in Iowa

    White House hopeful Mitt Romney squeezed out an eight-vote lead to win the Iowa GOP caucus on Tuesday, with Rick Santorum riding a late-breaking surge to come in second.

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