The suggestion that President Obama is considering seeking re-election with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as his running mate instead of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in 2012 is "absolutely not true," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday.

"It's not anything that's being discussed here," Mr. Gibbs told reporters during an off-camera briefing.

Mr. Gibbs' rejection of the idea comes one day after Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward said on CNN that a proposal for Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Biden to switch jobs is "on the table." Both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Biden vied with Mr. Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008...

The 2012 presidential race begins in earnest on Nov. 3 -- the day after the upcoming midterm elections -- and President Obama looks to be in trouble at the starting gate.

A Fox News poll released Friday shows that 54 percent of voters say they would vote for someone else rather than re-electing Obama if the presidential election were held today. That’s up from 47 percent in a January poll and 31 percent in April 2009.

Thirty-nine percent would vote to re-elect the president now, down from 43 percent in January. That's a dramatic drop from the 52 percent who felt that way in April, at his term's 100-day mark...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new poll from the respected Quinnipiac University polling institute finds Americans don't want to re-elect pro-abortion president Barack Obama in 2012. Instead, they prefer an unnamed Republican - referring to any of several pro-life candidates who may launch presidential bids against him.

The poll finds Obama's political honeymoon has clearly ended, likely thanks in part to his aggressive promotion of abortion and abortion funding.

Obama's job approval rating has dropped to a negative 44-48 percent, his worst net score ever in the college's presidential tracking polls...

If Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney decide to run for president in 2012, they'll have some powerful friends in the early states that are key to winning the GOP nomination.

Mike Huckabee? Not so much.

All of it is part of the presidential election fallout from Tuesday’s primaries in Iowa and South Carolina, two states so pivotal in the GOP nomination process that even their off-year state elections are carefully examined for their relevance to the next presidential race.

Both Palin and Romney backed the first-place finishers in the high-profile governors races in the two states—former GOP Gov. Terry Branstad in Iowa and state Rep. Nikki Haley in South Carolina—endorsements that are likely to pay dividends in the event either Republican runs for president in 2012...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Next up, Sarah Palin.

The spotlight at the three-day Southern Republican Leadership Conference turns Friday to the 2008 vice presidential nominee.

The former Alaska governor is among the potential GOP contenders to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012 addressing the gathering of a few thousand Republican activists in Louisiana.

At least four possible candidates passed up the event, choosing instead to do their political leg work elsewhere...

WASHINGTON — Americans anxious about unemployment and the economy increasingly blame President Obama for hard times, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, amid signs of turbulence in November's midterm elections.

Last week's jubilant signing of the health care overhaul, Obama's signature domestic initiative, seems to have given the president little boost. Instead, his standing on four personal qualities has sagged, and 50% of those surveyed say he doesn't deserve re-election.

"People are still hurting; a lot of people are still struggling, and I think a lot of what we're seeing in the polls reflects people's views on the economy," says Rep. Chris Van Hollen, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee...

The head of the public policy agency of the Southern Baptist Convention predicts there will be a "tsunami-size" voter backlash against those who voted for Obamacare.

Dr. Richard Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) of the Southern Baptist Convention, called Sunday's passage of the healthcare bill a tragic day for American medicine and for the nation's citizens.

"What this bill will mean, if it stays law, [is] that virtually every American will live a shorter life, and their life will be more filled with pain and suffering before they die," he comments. "That's been the experience in France, [in] Britain, [in] Canada, [and in] Germany -- it's been the experience wherever this kind of national takeover of medicine has become a reality"...

Washington – Remember Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky?

Anyone over a certain age who follows politics does. She was the first-term Democratic congresswoman from Pennsylvania who cast the decisive 218th House vote for President Clinton’s budget reconciliation bill in 1993 – and then went on to lose reelection in 1994.

Today, as the Democrats work to lock down just enough votes to pass an unpopular healthcare reform bill, “MMM” isn’t far from thought. No one wants to be the MMM of 2010. But there are several who could suffer that fate.

One obvious place to look is the 49 Democrats elected in 2008 from districts that voted for Republican John McCain for president...

Republican leader Mitt Romney said Monday the GOP nominee in the 2012 presidential election will have to bring together divided factions of the party.

"Whoever becomes the nominee of our party needs to be, as Ronald Reagan was, a big-top Republican welcoming conservatives of all types in our party," he said during an interview with The Washington Times' "America's Morning News" radio show.

Mr. Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, is consider a top contender in the 2012 elections if he decides to run....

Former Massachusetts Governor and 2008 presidential candidate Mitt Romney has already decided on a timeline for announcing a possible 2012 run for the White House.

In an interview with MyFox Boston Thursday, Romney insisted he had not yet made up his mind about a second run for the White House. However, the man who finished runner-up to John McCain in 2008 has already envisioned the timeframe for a possible rollout.

Asked by MyFox Boston’s anchor Kim Carrigan if he would run for president, Romney replied: “I haven’t made that decision yet. That’s something we’ll decide when we have to, which is going to be probably at the end of the year, or even a little after that.”

Romney was on the show promoting his new book “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness.”....