" ... But the other less noticed lesson of the year has to do with the white people the McCain campaign has been pandering to.
Bridges for Obama: American supporters of Sen. Barack Obama have been staging rallies abroad at world-famous bridges to show support for the Democratic presidential candidate and his pledge to span old political divisions.
While both Bush and McCain continue to claim that the troop "surge" was somehow responsible for the roughly 80% drop in violence in Iraq, the real truth is that the U.S.
We should not even be talking about Sarah Palin because it's sexist.
History might be made today if Gov. Jennifer Granholm opens a hearing to determine whether Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick -- leader of the state's largest city, fellow Democrat and criminal defendant -- should be removed from office.
Democrats accused former colleague Sen. Joe Lieberman of misleading the Republican National Convention when he addressed them in a speech Tuesday night.
Barack Obama met the 50 percent threshold for the first time Tuesday in the Gallup daily tracking poll, a symbolic hurdle that until now had eluded the Democratic nominee.
Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that Palin was once so independent, she was once a member of their party, which, since the 1970s, has been pushing for a legal vote for Alaskans to decide whether or not residents of the 49th state can secede from the United States.
Cerebral and cool, Obama is also steely, and his strength comes from the absence of a father. The making of a self-reliant man.
John McCain is a long-time acquaintance of mine that goes way back to our time together at the U.S. Naval Academy and as Prisoners of War in Vietnam. He is a man I respect and admire in some ways.
The recent endorsement by seemingly steadfast Republicans like former Iowa congressman Jim Leach and U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (R-Iowa), who are "crosssing the divide of old politics" to support Sen.
McCain likes to illustrate his moral fibre by referring to his five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam.
Asked by a voter about accusations of flip-flopping, Democrat Barack Obama dismissed the notion Tuesday that he has been shifting stances on Iraq, guns and the death penalty to break with his party's liberal wing and court a wider swath of voters.
Latinos could prove pivotal come November, but they're frequently mischaracterized.
Ralph Nader's presidential candidacy has received little media attention, but his latest critique of Barack Obama has come under fire for it's seemingly racial overtones.
longtime political pro got a bit too honest. Asked about the political impact of another terrorist attack on U.S. soil, Black replied: "Certainly it would be a big advantage to him."
Writers ask: Is Barack Obama's mission hopeless or history-making? Discussions of race or racism still stir uncomfortable reactions, they say Neither whites nor blacks are over racism, they say, and candidates still face it
A Japanese mobile phone commercial is under fire for parodying Obama's large crowds and message of change. The ad shows supporters cheering loudly at a rally and holding signs calling for "Change" while a monkey in a suit addresses them at a podium.
Sen. Lindsey Graham says he expects the race card to be played plenty Obama camp says it will not repeat John Kerry's mistake with "Swift Boat" attacks Texas GOP fired a vendor making cracks about changing the White House's name
Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) is on record as suggesting that this Obama victory "is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance."
Sen. John McCain's age, 71, has been highlighted in the presidential race It remains to be seen whether McCain's age will be an obstacle for voters this fall Poll shows voters age 65 and up support McCain over Obama by 8 points
Sidney Poitier now a great-grandfather Actor wrote "Life Beyond Measure, Letters to My Great-Granddaughter" Poitier had to dig deeply into his past for new book
Barack Obama is not black. He is the first mixed-race politician ever to get this far in the onerous and arduously testing American electoral process.