Laura Bush's presidential wish for Jeb
(CNN) - Christmas may be over, but a Jeb Bush presidential bid was apparently on the wish list for George and Laura Bush.
The former first lady told a Florida audience Wednesday that she and her husband, the former president, hoped her brother-in-law would decide to run for president this year, according to the Sarasota Herald Tribune.
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Justice Dept.: Obama recess appointments valid
Washington (CNN) - The Justice Department Thursday made public its legal opinion that President Barack Obama's controversial recess appointments last week are constitutional.
In an internal opinion, the Justice Department said the president has the authority to make recess appointments during pro-forma Senate sessions in which no business is to be conducted.
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Michelle Obama joins the Twitterverse
(CNN) - First lady Michelle Obama has officially joined the millions of people around the world who tweet.
Her handle, @MichelleObama, will be managed day-to-day by the Obama 2012 campaign, and like her husband's account, most of her tweets will be generated by the campaign staff. The tweets she personally sends will be signed with a "-mo" at the end.
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Perry donor defects to Romney, citing Bain attacks
Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) - One of Rick Perry's leading financial supporters in South Carolina is defecting to Mitt Romney – and he told CNN Thursday that Perry's sharp criticisms of Romney as a "vulture capitalist" were the main factor in his decision.
Both Perry and Newt Gingrich recently began hammering Romney as a predatory capitalist who looted companies and fired workers when he was running the private equity firm Bain Capital in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Romney seeks to head off rivals
Greer, South Carolina (CNN) – Mitt Romney sought to head off his critics Thursday, and addressed a burgeoning assault on his private sector career and stance on abortion rights as the primary battle shifted South.
The GOP candidate gave reporters a more nuanced account of his career at Bain Capital as some of his rivals continued to drub him for jobs lost at companies Romney helped reorganize.
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Santorum to get bigger boost
Washington (CNN) - As Rick Santorum fights for conservative support in South Carolina, the independent super PAC supporting the former senator from Pennsylvania is weighing in with more than a half million dollars of new ad buys in the state.
The Red, White and Blue Fund is buying $600,000 in new ad time Thursday in the state, a source familiar with the buy confirmed to CNN. The new ads are expected to go up on Saturday and remain up through next week's primary, the source said.
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Gingrich is 'desperate,' new ad charges
Greer, South Carolina (CNN) - An outside group supporting Mitt Romney unleashed a new attack on former House Speaker Newt Gingrich as the GOP nomination battle grew increasingly heated.
The Restore our Future PAC said it will air a television ad called "Desperate" in the early voting states of South Carolina and Florida, as part of an already announced multi-million dollar ad buy.
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South Carolina's dirty political reputation outlives reality
Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) - Choose your adjective: Hardball. Bare-knuckle. Down-and-dirty.
South Carolina has a rich and storied history of tough political tactics.
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New Hampshire aftermath: Cleaning up after the campaigns
(CNN) - The votes have been counted, the candidates have moved on to South Carolina, but remnants of a hard-fought battle blanket Manchester, New Hampshire.
The campaigns left behind hundreds, perhaps thousands of political signs on street corners and traffic medians from one end of the city to the other. Now someone has to go around and collect them.
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Obama announces big fundraising haul
(CNN) – President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign announced Thursday that it raised more than $42 million over the past three months, with the Democratic National Committee bringing in more than $24 million in the fourth quarter of last year.
In a video to supporters, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina announced that 1.3 million people contributed to the Obama re-election campaign, and that 98% of all donations were $250 or less, with the average donation around $55.
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