Public employee union opens attack on GOP Senate candidates

In 1980, President Ronald Reagan famously asked Americans if they thought they were better off than they were four years ago. Gallup asked that same question this year and editor-in-chief Frank Newport discusses the results.

Ads by anonymous political groups bash Obama on big night

Two decades after he moved to North Carolina's Research Triangle from Russia, Dmitiri Moundous started a new business called Alera Labs, and his son Gene, is among his first employees. One intends to vote. The other…

Rahm Emanuel’s resignation from the Obama campaign to raise big-money funds shows the primacy of newly empowered super PACs

Terry Coleman, a restauranteur from Lenoir, N.C., talks about who she's voting for this fall, and why.

Lincolnton Furniture is hailed as a success story for bringing jobs back to the U.S.

Stimulus helped, says CBO

Do the Republican and Democratic conventions have an impact on Election Day?

Fact-checking is a growing industry, but does it pay off?