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With President Obama holding a narrow lead in the polls and looking to close the sale, and challenger Mitt Romney searching for a game-changing big play, the stakes in this year's presidential debates are probably even higher than usual. The initial debate, which will focus on domestic policy,…
If you're a fan of Saturday Night Live, you may have gotten a chuckle from the spoof advertisement poking fun at what political pundits call "low information" undecided voters. "Before you're going to get our vote, you're going to have to answer some questions," the ad explains. "What are the names…
As a lifelong political junkie, I'm looking forward to next week's presidential debates like a sports fan looks forward to a playoff game. Now that I'm in my 50s, watching the televised debates won't be quite the party occasion that it might have been 30-odd years ago, when friends and I would…
By Peggy Girshman of Kaiser Health News
By Jordan Rau of Kaiser Health News
A new USA Today/Gallup survey of voters in 12 key swing states finds that they have more confidence in President Obama than his challenger, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, when it comes to protecting Medicare.
President Obama and Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan went before 5,000 AARP members in New Orleans on Friday to make their respective cases and take questions, with each promising to do a better job of protecting Medicare, Social Security and other programs for older Americans.
Medicare and retirement security have been hot issues in this year's congressional campaigns, made even more critical with control of the Senate up for grabs. But you wouldn't know it from watching some of the debates in key battleground states.
Election day is more than six weeks away, but we already have a winner. The 2012 AARP Voters' Guide has been named one of the six best voter education tools by NerdWallet, a leader in data transparency and financial literacy.
This year, Shelley Adler, the widow of the late Rep. John H. Adler (D-N.J.), is running for the seat that her late husband occupied from 2009 to 2011. That, in itself, isn't too unusual. According to the U.S. House of Representatives website, 49 other congressional widows have been elected to the…