Four Causes that Will Lead to a Democratic Election Nightmare  —  Locked in place.  —  The four causes of what's likely to be a landslide defeat for Democrats in the midterm election are now locked in place.  All that's left for Democrats in the final three weeks of the campaign is to trash Republicans …

Dem candidate: DCCC canceled ads because I won't support Pelosi  —  A Democratic candidate for Congress accused the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) of pulling its support for his campaign because he said he wouldn't support Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as House Speaker.

Midterms Are a Test for Obama's Ground Game  —  There's a reason that President Obama decided to broadcast on the Internet his meeting with college students on Tuesday night, taking sympathetic questions by way of Facebook and Skype and Twitter.  (About the only hip thing the president …

President Obama Looks Forward — and Back  —  President Obama said that he expected Republicans to offer him more cooperation after November's elections, no matter the outcome.  —  In an hour-long interview with the Times's White House correspondent, Peter Baker, Mr. Obama predicted …

Education of a President  —  On a busy afternoon in the West Wing late last month, President Barack Obama seemed relaxed and unhurried as he sat down in a newly reupholstered brown leather chair in the Oval Office.  He had just returned from the East Room, where he signed the Small Business Jobs Act …