Barack Obama Re-election | featured news

President Obama faces the voters a year from today, and right now he has reasons to be both concerned and confident. On the downside, there's an unemployment rate of 9% and approval ratings stuck in the 40s; on the other hand, Obama leads all the Republican challengers in most polling. Approval ratings in the 40s are a problem for any president seeking re-election.

President Barack Obama's fortunes are improving slightly, although he would face a tough struggle for re-election next year if Mitt Romney were the Republican nominee, a Reuters/Ipsos poll said on Friday.

National Public Radio’s Michele Norris will step away from her hosting duties as host of All Things Considered after her husband took a job with the Obama campaign.

Vice President Joe Biden left open the possibility on Sunday that he might run for the White House in 2016. Biden told CNN that his focus is on helping President Barack Obama get re-elected in 2012 but when pressed on the possibility of his own future run, he replied, "I'm not closing anything."