Politics

October 26, 2012 - President Obama won three Southern states en route to the White House in 2008. What's happened in the South's swing states? Is it any different than what's happened in the rest of the country? And can he still win?

October 26, 2012 - With True the Vote and other tea party-affiliated groups planning a massive poll-watching effort for this election, voting rights advocates are mobilizing in unprecedented numbers to fight back against intimidation.

October 25, 2012 - A new study finds that North Carolina has some of the strangest-shaped congressional districts in the nation -- part of a trend that experts say has led to the disappearance of political moderates.

October 25, 2012 - The American Tradition Institute has aggressively sought the emails of climatologists as part of its effort to discredit the science of global warming. But when it comes to following the rules about its own legally required disclosures, it's less than compliant.

October 24, 2012 - As corporate money pours into the presidential race, workers have to fight for their own rights -- and they're doing just that at Walmart and a Louisiana salt mine.

October 23, 2012 - Just-released documents reveal two members of the Republican faction that ended Wake County schools' desegregation policy were involved in an extramarital affair. When it ended, one blamed the other for a burglary -- and now both are running for higher office despite claims the affair was widely known among political insiders. We look at the big conservative donors supporting their campaigns.

October 19, 2012 - Corporate cash flowed to both the 2012 Republican National Convention held in Tampa, Fla. and the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.