Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign is prompting a surge of interest — or at least curiosity — about the Mormon faith, according to national church executives.

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid says he agrees with a fellow Mormon who wrote recently that Mitt Romney has "sullied" the LDS faith and that the GOP presidential candidate is "not the face of Mormonism."

WOLFEBORO, N.H. — Republican Mitt Romney, the first Mormon presidential nominee of a major political party, sat in the Wolfeboro Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday as, one by one, members of his congregation credited him for bringing the faith more into the public eye.

DEARBORN, Mich. - Mitt Romney officially entered the 2008 presidential race Tuesday, a former one-term Republican governor of Massachusetts suggesting that his record of leadership uniquely positions him to tackle the country's challenges.

David and Gail Evans filled their house with a dozen red, white and blue balloons, and twice as many friends and neighbors to watch the Republican presidential candidates debate on television Tuesday night.

U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake has a secret. A fair number of the Arizona Republican’s colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives actually like him — or at least they tell him that.

When former newsman Robbie Sherwood started a new career on Rep. Harry Mitchell’s staff last week, he was able to carry most of his business tools to the office suite in a single cardboard box.

As this is written, conventional wisdom says Mitt Romney will emerge as New Hampshire's choice. Attention shifts to see who will come in next and how close to Romney they will arrive. And due to that shift, few if any have noticed that Mitt has done it again, put his foot in mouth twice now in 24 hours.

Mitt Romney would like the middle class to vote for him but, looking at his record, this would be a disaster for the middle class and all of America.

Mesa lawmaker Chuck Gray will help lead Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s campaign efforts in Arizona.

TAMPA, Fla. — His Republican National Convention pushed back by a day, Mitt Romney conceded Sunday that fresh controversy over rape and abortion is harming his party and he accused Democrats of trying to exploit it for political gain.

When Matt Salmon ran for governor five years ago, he recalls talking to Republican voters who liked his politics but refused to vote for him because he was Mormon.

Mitt Romney rolled out his Arizona fundraising team this week, a move that indicates the former Massachusetts governor intends to take the fight for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination straight to Sen. John McCain —and in McCain’s home state.

Citing his "pro-business'' background, Gov. Jan Brewer on Sunday endorsed Mitt Romney for president.

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BOSTON — With swing voters in his sights, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is tacking toward the center on health care and defense spending now that he's put his final partisan hurdle behind him and the sprint to Nov. 6 is underway.

WASHINGTON - John McCain sought to mend his tattered relationship with conservatives and unify a splintered GOP as he all but clinched the party's presidential nomination Thursday. Mitt Romney, his former chief rival, dropped out, and a parade of prominent Republicans swung behind the Arizona senator.

SALT LAKE CITY - Utah's leaders and believers mourned the death of Gordon B. Hinckley, the humble head of the Mormon church who added millions of new members and labored long to burnish the faith's image as a world religion.

A new survey shows Rick Santorum is within the range of a statistical dead heat of Mitt Romney with just a week to go to Arizona's presidential primary.

With the presidential election fast approaching, the economy remains one of the key issues that could be a decisive factor for many voters. President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney offer vastly different visions for turning around the economy and putting Americans back to work.

BOCA RATON, Fla. — President Barack Obama sharply challenged Mitt Romney on foreign policy in their final campaign debate Monday night, accusing him of "wrong and reckless leadership that is all over the map." The Republican coolly responded, "Attacking me is not an agenda" for dealing with a dangerous world.

WASHINGTON — Middle East violence is shaking up a presidential race that otherwise looks stubbornly stable, and tight. President Barack Obama holds a tiny edge, Republican Mitt Romney is seeking a breakthrough message, and three debates are ahead in the campaign's final seven weeks.

TAMPA, Fla. — Mitt Romney launched his fall campaign for the White House Thursday night with a rousing, remarkably personal speech to the Republican National convention and a prime-time TV audience, proclaiming that America needs "jobs, lots of jobs" and promising to create 12 million of them in perilous economic times.

Arizona's 11 Republican electors formally cast their votes Monday for Mitt Romney -- but not before three of them, including the state party chairman, said questions remain about whether Barack Obama is a natural born citizen.