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By Michael Hiltzik
To hear business leaders and political candidates talk, proper industrial policy comprises only three elements: a fair tax system, a level...
By Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times
Former President Clinton used a Tuesday night appearance in Irvine to rip Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and GOP...
By Lisa Mascaro, Washington Bureau
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Towering in his cowboy boots, Republican George Allen, the son of a revered football coach, marveled at the...
By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times
SEATTLE — Just when it looked like the race for governor in Washington state couldn't get any more contentious — polls show...
By Paul West, Washington Bureau
BOCA RATON, Fla. — After a consequential series of debates in their deadlocked contest, President Obama and Mitt Romney will now go at...
By David Lauter and Christi Parsons, Los Angeles Times
BOCA RATON, Fla. — President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney made their closing appeals to voters in a final debate that...
By Mary McNamara, Television Critic
Minutes into the third presidential debate, a theme emerged: Lessons have been learned.
By Paul Richter and Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — In a presidential debate that was supposed to focus on foreign policy, the most contentious dispute over who was...
By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Rep. Pete Stark, dean of California's congressional delegation, arrived in the House when Richard Nixon occupied the...
By Anh Do, Los Angeles Times
Michael Wahl is aware that he has a choice — President Obama or Mitt Romney. "It's either this guy or that guy," the Cal Poly Pomona...
By Paul West and Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times
BOCA RATON, Fla. — Foreign policy may be the topic, but undecided voters will be the targets when Mitt Romney and President Obama hold...
By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein recently attended a Capitol Hill hearing, pursuing an unlikely cause for the chairwoman of the...
By Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times
ROCHESTER, N.H. — It wasn't until the mailers began targeting her as a union stooge that Julie Brown realized how much her party had...
By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — In the 16 months that he has been running for president, the thrust of Mitt Romney's policy toward Afghanistan...
By Matea Gold, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — No matter what happens on election day, it's already clear the 2012 campaign has ushered in a new political order.
By Melanie Mason, Matea Gold and Joseph Tanfani
Washington Bureau
By Michael Finnegan and Mitchell Landsberg
MAYFIELD VILLAGE, Ohio — While most of the nation watches from a distance, President Obama and Mitt Romney are running a climactic...
By Hector Becerra, Los Angeles Times
PUEBLO, Colo. — Like many Latinos in Colorado, Earl Payne can trace his lineage to Spaniards who came to the New World more than 400...