US elections

It’s the unofficial kick-off of Obama’s re-election campaign: a slick, 17 minute documentary about his presidency, narrated by Tom Hanks. The aim? To make it an online sensation.

It was the politics of their style as much as the style of their politics, as President Obama and David Cameron lavished mutual praise at last night’s celebrity-packed White House dinner.

“We did it again”, a giddy Rick Santorum told supporters after suprising the pundits with two more primary wins. Bad news for Mitt Romney and for a Republican party facing a long, bitter fight ahead.

Republican Rick Santorum wins US primaries in Alabama and Mississippi piling pressure on main rival Mitt Romney in the race to take on Barack Obama.

Britain’s special relationship with America has been celebrated – then declared dead. As President Obama welcomes David Cameron with a 19 gun salute, is the transatlantic friendship back on course?

Now listen up, y’all. Mitt Romney thought tonight’s primaries in the Deep South would be an ‘away game’. But with his rivals splitting the conservative vote – could it deliver him an unexpected win?

They will be crucial in November’s election: and they’re not impressed by the Republicans. Now President Obama is reaching out to women voters – with a co-ordinated campaign.

Mitt Romney won five out of the ten state contests on Super Tuesday – but not the knockout he needed. The bitter fight for the presidential nomination could now drag on for months.

Republican hopeful Mitt Romney surges ahead to win a quick succession of states in the Super Tuesday contest but fails to land outright victory, throwing the race into confusion.

It is the closest thing America has to a national primary: 10 states, 437 delegates up for grabs. But with the Republicans still so divided, it is unlikely to give anyone a knockout win.

Right-wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh does not often say sorry, writes Felicity Spector. But he has apologised to the law student he branded a slut and a prostitute, over her views on birth control.

With Super Tuesday on the horizon, brand consultant James von Leyden assesses the merits – or otherwise – of the Republican candidates’ advertising campaigns.

President Obama has backed the law student called a “slut” and a “prostitute” by right-wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh, after she testified about birth control on Capitol Hill.

Mitt Romney – the comeback kid? That’s what he’s calling himself, after snatching crucial victories in Michigan and Arizona’s Republican primaries, over his chief rival Rick Santorum.