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House Democrats raise money off a Romney supporter's comment that "lower income" people don't get the impact of President Obama's policies.

President Obama would like to carry North Carolina again, but he's having trouble with a couple of House Democrats in the Tar Heel State. U.S. Reps. Larry Kissell and Mike McIntyre -- both of whom represent rural districts with more Republican voters after redistricting -- have declined to endorse Obama for re-election.

President Obama's latest television ad is designed to appeal to an important demographic: Women. Entitled "first law," the commercial emphasizes the first bill Obama signed as president, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.

Despite the uptick in money going to the super PAC, Obama campaign officials said Wednesday the other side will still have the advantage in outside money. They are prepared for the president to be the first incumbent who will be outspent by a challenger — bracing for Romney and his allies to pump more than $1 billion into TV ads alone.

President Barack Obama cast his re-election battle with Mitt Romney as a clash between starkly contrasting philosophies and charged that his Republican rival would hollow out the middle class in a high-stakes speech on Thursday that could set the tone for months of intense campaigning.

As the Romney campaign jumps on Obama's 'the private sector is fine' comment, former Clinton strategists are urging Obama to focus on the future, not on what he's done in the past four years.

Just as former president Bill Clinton gives President Obama's campaign some heartburn, along comes former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell.

Bill Clinton said Thursday that he's "very sorry" for comments he made days earlier that appeared to undermine President Obama's position on extending certain tax rates, chalking it up to a misunderstanding over when lawmakers needed to act ahead of a looming "fiscal cliff."

The total is a big increase over the $43.6 million raised in April, and includes money donated in the wake of President Obama’s decision to publicly support same-sex marriage.

IN HIS BRAND-NEW biography “Barack Obama: The Story,” The Post’s David Maraniss deftly hops along the personal islands of the president’s formative years, from his days with laid-back Hawaiian classmates to his long insular hours in New York, and his soul-searching from Occidental to Illinois, and his looking backward to Kenya and Kansas. It is a sweeping multigenerational journey.