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Ben Smith, editor in chief of Buzzfeed, reports on Zerlina Maxwell, a law student who is breaking in to the political conversation on Twitter in this election.

Ben Smith, editor in chief of Buzzfeed, reports on a political Twitter voice you should be following during the election.

A new Washington Post/ABC News poll showed Barack Obama and Mitt Romney tied, each with 47 percent of support among registered voters.

George P. Bush said in an interview on Tuesday that “it’s never too late” for Mitt Romney to take a leadership role in the immigration debate, acknowledging that President Obama already has.

The debate over the proper balance between taxing and spending has been raging, and no two states have settled it more differently than Maryland and Kansas.

Political news from today's Times and around the Web, plus a look at what's happening in Washington.

On a new Web site, the Republican National Committee announced early Tuesday morning that the president wasted billions of dollars that should have been spent in America.

Gov. Rick Perry told federal officials on Monday that Texas would not expand Medicaid or create an insurance exchange.

President Obama and top Republicans made politically charged proposals on Monday on tax cuts and health care, but each side risked opening fissures in their own ranks.

Representative Shelley Berkley, a Democrat facing Senator Dean Heller in an intensely competitive election, faces allegations that she used her office to help her husband.

Senior aides say that the push is not an attack on Mitt Romney’s wealth, but part of a broader plan to disqualify his economic credentials in the eyes of voters.

Mitt Romney’s participation in a law-and-business degree program at Harvard put him into one of the most exclusive clubs in academe.

Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee outraised President Obama’s money machine for the second month in a row. Democratic-aligned “super PACs” are also trailing their G.O.P. counterparts.

Ahead of a two-day bus tour to thank Iowa voters, Rick Santorum suggested he has a limited relationship with Mitt Romney but an enduring one with the first caucus state.

The reception, with music, vegan dishes and general sentimental gushing, offered its own display of the liberal Democrat establishment celebrating the first-ever same-sex wedding of a congressman.

The Justice Department announced the indictment of five people in connection with the killing of a Border Patrol agent linked to the disputed gun-trafficking investigation called Operation Fast and Furious.

The Obama campaign's new, all-out effort to portray Mr. Romney, as personally wealthy and out of touch with average Americans.

Utah has voted Republican by at least 19 percentage points in every presidential election since 1964, and the FiveThirtyEight forecast gives Mr. Romney a 100 percent chance of winning the state.

President Obama drew a contrast with what he called “top-down economics” by calling for a one-year extension of tax cuts for people making less than $250,000.

The total is the biggest quarterly haul yet for Ms. Warren, who has so far raised more money than any Congressional candidate in the nation.