WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It might be difficult to upstage Republican presidential candidates on the most important day of their primary election, but President Barack Obama tried to do just that on Tuesday. Holding a news conference for the first time in months, Obama took advantage of the White House podium and national television coverage to outline his arguments for re-election just as his ...

BEAVERCREEK, Ohio—President Barack Obama's supporters waited all of two months after his inauguration to start laying the groundwork here for what has become a re-election machine that is bigger and tougher than his would-be Republican rivals' nightmarish imaginings. Oh, I'm afraid the Obama campaign will be quite operational when his Republican challenger arrives. Powerful, the [...]

President Barack Obama's re-election campaign plans to release a 17-minute documentary next week about his first term in office. Campaign manager Jim Messina said the documentary was directed by Davis Guggenheim, whose credits include the Academy Award-winning "An Inconvenient Truth," about former Vice President Al Gore's global-warming campaign.

Barack Obama has stressed the need for elections in Libya during a meeting with the interim Libyan PM.

An upcoming documentary released by President Barack Obama's re-election campaign seeks to portray the president as a determined figure who took on a series of difficult challenges during his first term.

Chicago Bears head coach Lovie Smith is endorsing President Barack Obama as part of an outreach effort by the re-election campaign to encourage continued support from the African-American community.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The sharp winter decline in the unemployment rate has put a spring in President Barack Obama's step ahead of his re-election bid. But some economists think quirks in the jobless data mean progress could stall out soon. Several Wall Street economists believe the government is mismeasuring seasonal shifts in the labor market, and suggest the jobless rate's sharp winter drop ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It might be difficult to upstage Republican presidential candidates on the most important day of their primary election, but President Barack Obama tried to do just that on Tuesday. Holding a news conference for the first time in months, Obama took advantage of the White House podium and national television coverage to outline his arguments for re-election just as his ...

It's as slick as any commercial Hollywood production. And it's about as much a "documentary" as a campaign speech by Joe Biden. President Barack Obama's re-election machine on Thursday released a two-minute trailer for what they have billed as a 17-minute documentary that makes the case that he deserves a second term. From the giant [...]

Boosted by improved public confidence in his economic stewardship, President Obama for the first time holds a clear edge over Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in a hypothetical general-election matchup, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll . Read full article >>