A running narrative -- sometime prominent, other times latent -- in the 2012 election is Romney's Mormonism, and whether it might scare away many a good evangelical Republican from the voting booth. The story goes like this: Conservative evangelical Christians, a pillar of the GOP electorate, will be so turned off by Romney and his strange religious beliefs that they will avoid voting altogether, even though they prefer Romney to Obama. In turn, Obama's path to victory gets all the easier.

President Barack Obama warned Republican foes Wednesday he would not let Congress hold the US economy "hostage" with a debt-ceiling row like the one that nearly paralyzed Washington last year.

History will remember May 16, 2012 as a day the Internet felt cold and empty without one of its most prominent political journalists. That's because Politico's Mike Allen Politico took his first day off in nearly three years.

On Twitter, I follow 308 feeds, and from what I see, it's exactly the sorts of people I follow who dominate the Twittersphere. Day after day, theirs are the most clever tweets I run across; when they draw attention to exchanges with outsiders they always seem to get the better of them. From my vantage, it even seems like folks frustrated with both partisan teams are especially suited to the medium.  John Hinderaker is on Twitter too. He follows 458 people. The vast majority are conservatives whose work he likes. ...

Omaha, Nebraska (Reuters) - Rancher and state Senator Deb Fischer overcame two longtime state office holders to win the Nebraska Republican primary for the Senate on Tuesday, the second Republican primary upset in a week after an insurgent ousted longtime Indiana Republican Senator Richard Lugar. Powered by some high-profile endorsements in the final two weeks of the Nebraska campaign, Fischer roared from third place to victory over veteran Attorney General Jon Bruning and state Treasurer Don Stenberg. ...