Rep. John Barrow (D-Ga.) is a member of a dying breed -- he's one of just nine Democrats to represent a congressional district that President Barack Obama lost in 2012.In fact, Mitt Romney carried Barrow’s Georgia district with more than 55 percent of the vote last year, and John McCain did the same four years earlier.But as Republicans seek to ...

During his campaign for re-election, President Obama and his team accused Mitt Romney of "betting against America" for investing in offshore accounts that shielded the Republican challenger from paying U.S. taxes. If Mr. Romney "bet against America," so did the family of Penny Pritzker, Mr. Obama's nominee for Commerce secretary, ...

AP Photo/Elise Amendola It’s rare for environmental organizations to lead outside spending in an election. Even the largest don't have that much cash to burn. But in last month's Senate primary in Massachusetts, no other interest group spent more. 350.org Action Fund, the young political arm of the climate campaign group 350.org, picked this as its first race and dropped just ...

Writing a column on the recent IRS abuses is a hazardous undertaking. The scandal is expanding so quickly that it’s hard to get a paragraph on paper without having to revise it with new, shocking details. As I write this, an unctuous-looking former IRS commissioner by the name of Douglas Shulman is telling the Senate Finance Committee that he knows ...

(AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) President Barack Obama waves to the crowd at his election night party celebrating his victory over challenger Mitt Romney. Do you remember Mitt Romney’s election-year promise to create 12 million jobs during his first term? It came in for a fair amount of criticism, not because it was too ambitious—and thus unattainable—but because it was banal. ...