With the first presidential debate less than three weeks away, Mitt Romney is spending lots of time getting ready behind closed doors. In his first comments on that debate prep, he told me that Sen.

Political experts say that presidential races have just three defining moments in which candidates can seize the attention of millions of voters and stir new interest in their campaigns. The first two ...

It’s that time of year where political nerds get as excited about TV as jocks do about the super bowl. It’s the time where everyone’s expectations get inflated to embarrassing levels upon reflection.

(AP) After dozens of hours of practice, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney arrived in Colorado on Monday for his first debate with President Barack Obama, telling thousands of voters he ...

My colleague Carol Felsenthal spoke with Edward Lipson Charles Lipson, a polisci prof at the U. of C., to get advice on how Mitt Romney can save his campaign—on the shoals but not yet shipwrecked—at ...

Seven Republican candidates are in Las Vegas tonight for the eighth primary debate this year, and this one promises to be a mixed bag. On the one hand, we’re going to have fun watching the moderators ...

The Romney campaign has spent the last few weeks hyping the event, but while doing so, they've made the curious decision to preview almost every single second of the candidate's debate performance in ...

Mitt Romney won’t be at the first 2012 presidential debate Thursday night, even though he is the closest thing to the field’s frontrunner. “It’s still early, the field is too unsettled and he’s not ...

Any spectators of American political sport who were eager for the gentle, get-to-know-the-candidates phase of the Republican presidential primary to give way to real bloodletting got their wish on ...