2012 Presidential Election | featured news

Will those paying no federal income tax "vote for the president no matter what"? Probably not. A lot don't vote, and of those who do, many vote Republican.

On Tuesday afternoon, Mother Jones magazine released the complete version of the video that showed Mitt Romney speaking to donors at a May 17 fundraiser. The magazine had originally released clips from the video on Monday evening.

The president told the "Late Show" audience that Mr. Romney was "writing off a big chunk of the country."

The good news for Mitt Romney: He remains within striking distance of President Obama. The bad news: His latest misstep could upend that.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court cast doubt Tuesday on whether that state can enforce its new photo ID law for the November election, as it told a trial judge to take a skeptical look at whether registered voters will be denied the right to cast a ballot.

It turns out Mitt Romney isn’t the only presidential candidate to have a video leak this week. Fresh on the heels of Romney’s leaked campaign fundraising video, in which the Republican candidate calls 47 percent of Americans "dependent on government" since they don’t pay federal income taxes, a recording from a purported 1998 Loyola University appearance by President Barack Obama has been posted to YouTube.

That didn't take long. President Obama's re-election campaign has put out a video featuring voter criticism of Mitt Romney's closed door critique of Obama voters.

In his first extended interview since a controversy erupted over comments made to donors, Romney told Fox News that his intent was to highlight a "great divide" facing voters in the election.

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was the loser in a political fight over U.S. reaction to attacks last week on American diplomatic compounds in Libya and Egypt, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll on Tuesday.

Marc Leder, the co-chief executive of private equity firm Sun Capital Partners Inc who hosted a fundraiser in May in which Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney criticized supporters of U.S. President Barack Obama, said on Tuesday he had supported people from both political parties.