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New York Democrats are distancing themselves from Anthony Weiner as their scandal-plagued former colleague tries to resurrect his political career with a run for mayor of the Big Apple. Weiner, [...]

Heather French Henry, a 2000 Miss America titleholder and wife of former Kentucky Lt. Gov. Steve Henry (D), is contemplating launching a challenge to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) [...]

Senior Republicans are pressing Rep. Mike Rogers to launch a bid for the Senate instead of accepting a possible offer from President Obama to head the FBI. The seven-term Michigan [...]

from The Associated Press * Karen Handel, the former Susan G. Komen for the Cure executive at the center of last year's public clash with Planned Parenthood, says she'll be [...]

Former Rep. Bob Dold (R-Ill.) will seek a rematch against Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) after a narrow loss in 2012, he announced Wednesday afternoon in an email to supporters. 'Over [...]

Former first lady Barbara Bush said Thursday she doesn't want her son Jeb to run for president in 2016, because the nation has 'had enough Bushes' in the White House. [...]

from Talk Business Arkansas * Former Third District Congressman Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, who has previously said he would seek the GOP nomination for governor in 2014, made it official [...]

Fran Drescher has played many parts on television and in films, but she wouldn't be opposed to taking on a different kind of role--as a politician. The star of 'The [...]

GOP Rep. Steve King told Iowa Republicans he is close to deciding if he'll mount a Senate campaign in 2014 and says he sees a 'path to victory' if he [...]

Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) will challenge Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) in 2014, a source close to his campaign confirmed to The Hill. He's set to announce his bid on Wednesday [...]

The main stage backdrop at last week's Conservative Political Action Conference couldn't have been more fitting. It featured Ronald Reagan, born in 1911; William Buckley, born in 1925; Jesse Helms, [...]

from Star Tribune * The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is readying for a 2014 rematch between Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and businessman Jim Graves. Graves lost to Bachmann by a [...]

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee said Monday that Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) new budget 'will be a gift' to their 2014 campaigns against GOP [...]

Democratic freshmen in the House have launched a robust push to engage the entire class of 2013 in fundraising for the party's campaign committee, an effort spurred by the rallying [...]

Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.) announced Monday he will not pursue the seat of retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.). ---------- Please note: Illustration(s) are not available due to copyright [...]

Rep. Charles Boustany Jr. (R-La.) said he won't challenge Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) in 2014, leaving Reps. John Fleming and Bill Cassidy among the possible GOP candidates. ---------- Please note: [...]

* 'Argo' and 'Lincoln' won big at the Oscars. Here's a pitch for the next Washington political story that is sure to be a Hollywood hit. The plot goes like [...]

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has identified the 48 districts it will be targeting in the upcoming election cycle, which the party believes are key to winning back the [...]

The Tea Party group Freedom-Works, like many GOP organizations, will be taking some of its 2014 cues from President Obama's successful reelection campaign. 'Internally, we certainly studied with admiration what [...]

President Obama will be campaigning in Miami and Tampa, Fla., on Thursday. In Miami, he will participate in a Univision And Facebook event. ---------- Please note: Illustration(s) are not available [...]

Mitt Romney will also be in Florida on Thursday, and will Hold a rally at the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota. ---------- Please note: Illustration(s) are not available due [...]

Mitt Romney will campaign in Fort Worth, Texas, on Tuesday. ---------- Please note: Illustration(s) are not available due to copyright [...]

Mitt Romney's presidential campaign faced renewed skepticism from conservatives this weekend after tapping former Utah Gov. Michael Leavitt (R) --who has supported parts of President Obama's healthcare law--to lead its [...]

Mitt Romney will be in Iowa on Tuesday to deliver a major speech on the deficit at Drake University. ---------- Please note: Illustration(s) are not available due to copyright [...]

from The Hill's Ballot Box blog * Newt Gingrich plans to campaign with former rival Mitt Romney in the coming weeks. 'Look, I talk regularly with the Romney folks. I'm [...]

from The Columbus Dispatch * President Bartlet is coming to campaign with Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio). Actor Martin Sheen, who played the fictional President Josiah Bartlet on the hit TV [...]

Mitt Romney will be campaigning in Michigan on Tuesday while Vice President Biden attends a fundraiser in Charleston, [...]

Mitt Romney will be campaigning in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. ---------- Please note: Illustration(s) are not available due to copyright [...]

Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum will be campaigning in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, while Ron Paul will be in California. ---------- Please note: Illustration(s) are not available due to copyright [...]

Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are all scheduled to speak Saturday in Waukesha, [...]

* Republican Greg Anders of Bellingham, Wash., announced Thursday he is getting out of the race for the 1st congressional district seat, the paper reported. In a statement, he said [...]

* North Carolina Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton announced Thursday that he will seek the Democratic nomination for governor, as the party scrambled to fill the vacuum left by incumbent Bev [...]

Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum will speak at a Univison forum at Miami Dade College on [...]

The State of the Union speech in a presidential election year is all politics. In fact, with the president now running campaign ads in eight states and Republicans attacking him [...]

* Former Ohio House Minority Leader Joyce Beatty (D) will run for the U.S. House in Ohio's newly drawn 3rd congressional district. Beatty, a vice president of Ohio State University, [...]

* Democrat Matt Varilek announced that he is running against Rep. Kristi Noem (R) in the 2012 race for South Dakota's U.S. House seat, the paper reported. Varilek, an aide [...]

* National Democrats have launched a paid 'grassroots campaign' charging that Rep. Scott Des Jarlais (R-Tenn.) has sided with fellow Republicans 'to protect the wealthiest 1 percent at the expense [...]

* Herman Cain's former Republican presidential rivals immediately offered praise for him after the embattled pizza mogul suspended his 2012 campaign Saturday. Cain, who succumbed to allegations of a 13-year [...]

The supercommittee's deadlock gives leaders in both parties plenty of ammunition for the 2012 campaign. For months, Democratic and Republican leaders said they wanted a deal, but in the end [...]

LAS VEGAS--For most Republican politicians, there is no smear more loathed, more insulting or more politically perilous than to be called a RINO--a Republican in Name Only. Not for Linda [...]

President Obama announced new refinancing tools for the nation's beleaguered homeowners on Monday as the White House sought to turn what has been a political negative for the president into [...]

Newt Gingrich will outline his '21st Century Contract With America' on Thursday in Iowa. ---------- Please note: Illustration(s) are not available due to copyright [...]

Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz promised in a Friday conference call that the Obama campaign would focus on Hispanics, a rapidly growing population, in its reelection campaign. The [...]

* Rep. Colleen Hanabusa (D -Hawaii) sees benefits in both the House and Senate, which is why afterjust one year in Congress, she's considering running for retiring Democratic Sen. Daniel [...]

Bill Kristol said Monday that Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) is reconsidering his decision not to run for president in 2012. Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard and a major [...]

A popular Washington political commentator is initiating a public campaign to unseat President Obama in response to the city's lack of a voting representative in Congress. 'The Obama administration is [...]

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) is being encouraged to enter the presidential race by the members of the Texas delegation he's consulted about a White House bid. Perry has spoken [...]

Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) will officially launch his presidential bid on June 6 at an event in western Pennsylvania, a Santorum adviser confirmed to The Hill's Ballot Box. Logistics [...]

Tim Pawlenty will take his presidential campaign to Florida Tuesday, hosting a Facebook town-hall meeting followed by a meet-and-greet in Coral Gables. ---------- Please note: Illustration(s) are not available due [...]

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) will have to run his presidential campaign much differently from the way he ran the House to have any chance of winning the 2012 nomination. [...]