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 ...

Barack Obama's presidential campaign has found an interesting new way to reach young voters: Campaign ads in the Madden video game. TheHill.com reports that Obama has purchased space in Madden NFL 09.

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 ...

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Democrats spent 2011 and the first part of 2012 wallowing in self-pity that President Obama would be vastly outspent by Mitt Romney thanks to Citizens United unleashing an avalanche of negative ads ...

Rhode Island independent candidate for governor Lincoln Chafee (CHAY’-fee) is running a TV ad featuring President Barack Obama, the day after rival Democrat Frank Caprio said Obama could “shove it” ...

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 ...

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 ...