Why are the presidential candidates spending so much time raising so much money? To buy TV ads. In Ad Watch, we review the results of their heroic efforts as they come out. Today: President Obama has ...

On Friday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney answered questions from the press corps relating to the links between President Barack Obama’s campaign and the subject of a controversial ad put out ...

Obama's target is an ad by the conservative American Issues Project, a nonprofit group that questions Obama's ties to Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground organization that took credit for a ...

The general election has begun! And so has the onslaught of campaign ads. Which ones succeed? Which fail? In Ad Watch, we review them as they come out. Today: President Obama goes after Mitt Romney's ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Barack Obama is entering the fight for U.S. House control by appearing in a 30-second ad urging California voters to approve a November ballot proposal that could add as many as five ...

Holy fucking shit. This is the most brutal attack ad I’ve seen in a long, long time. It minces the hell out of Romney’s offshore fortunes and his record as a jobs exporter (in the private and public ...

I’m really surprised the Obama campaign is letting the Romney campaign frame the Medicare fight like this: Now, all of a sudden, Obama is the mean man who wants to cut Medicare and Romney and Ryan are ...

WASHINGTON — More pro-Obama television commercials than pro-Romney spots aired in the first three weeks of October, according to a new analysis by the Wesleyan Media Project — a stark reminder that ...