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Small businesses are seeing higher TV ad rates, fewer time slots in key swing states.

With election day now less than three months away, the campaigns of both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have amped up. One of their newest feats? Mobile apps.

Demand for the 15- and 30-second spots that automatically play before online videos are sold out in some markets or being auctioned off at record prices in others.

Central Florida city is a top locale for both GOP and Democratic fundraisers, in a swing state that will play a key role for either Mitt Romney or Barack Obama winning the election.

Both the President Obama and Mitt Romney campaigns are using sweepstakes to coax small donations. Do they work?

Teach for America is tapping its nationwide network of alumni to recruit candidates for public office -- so much so that in one Tennessee race, two TFA alums are squaring off against one another.

As Romney prepares to tap running mate, historians say vice presidents have a mostly unseen role in shaping policy.

There's a new bad word in the race for president: 'Outsourcing.' But the latest political back-and-forth, while dramatic, ignores the realities of the American economy.

The Boston Globe is reporting this morning that government documents show GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney remained CEO and chairman of the private equity firm Bain Capital for three years after he has said he left Bain.

As President Obama's "Betting on America" tour gets underway, we ask a linguist: What does it mean to "bet" on the country?