(The Root) — The tweet by Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers said it best: “Whoever did Obama’s debate prep should get a raise.” While the first presidential debate was a clear win for former ...

DENVER – With polls showing likely voters across the country nearly evenly split over the presidential contenders, Republican Mitt Romney and President Obama hunkered down in Western swing states on ...

Snap polls from multiple outlets gave President Obama the victory over Mitt Romney in the foreign policy debate. In a CNN-ORC poll, 48 percent of voters said Obama won; 40 percent said Romney did. A ...

(The Root) — It’s crunch time for President Barack Obama’s campaign — and his presidency. One more bad debate on Tuesday night and he’ll have done serious damage to his 2012 re-election prospects and ...

The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the second presidential debate; where Libya stands one year after the death of Muammar Qaddafi; and the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban ...

Looking ahead to Tuesday night’s second debate between President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney, Democratic Mayor Kasim Reed of Atlanta said on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday that Obama ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican John McCain has a final chance on Wednesday to directly confront Democratic rival Barack Obama in a debate, with McCain's hopes of reviving his flagging White House ...

Mitt Romney's debate performance pushed him into a national lead over President Obama among likely voters, Pew Research Center reports in its latest poll numbers. Romney is leading Obama 49 percent to ...

The stakes for Tuesday's debate are just as high as they were two weeks ago for the first presidential face-off, and this time, the pressures are reversed. Tonight, NBC's First Read team writes, ...