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By JOHN MILLER ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER This 1936 file photo shows Idaho U.S. Sen. William Borah. Being dead since 1940 hasn't kept Sen. Borah from being inserted squarely into 2008 presidential politics after Democratic candidate Barack Obama took issue with President Bush's borrowing of a quote...
Will Hillary Clinton fight for the nomination past June 1st? Agents for Sen. Hillary Clinton, trying desperately to keep alive her presidential campaign, are privately telling Democrats that she is so "tight" with a dollar that she would not continue her contest against Sen. Barack Obama if she...
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Agents for Sen. Hillary Clinton, trying desperately to keep alive her presidential campaign, are privately telling Democrats that she is so "tight" with a dollar that she would not continue her contest against Sen. Barack Obama if she did not have a chance to win. That was a...
The withdrawal of GOP nominee Hans von Spakovsky was hailed by Senate Democrats and was expected to end an impasse that sidelined the FEC. Hans von Spakovsky, a former Justice Department lawyer whose nomination became entangled in allegations that political considerations influenced decisions by...
Kenneth P. Vogel 31 minutes ago PORTLAND, Ore. - Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is increasingly aiming its punches not at her frontrunning opponent Barack Obama, but at the media. On the campaign trail, in a new ad and in her meetings with donors and superdelegates, she blasts the D.C....
Free tickets to see Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in Billings on Monday were the hottest ticket in town Friday morning. All 2,000 tickets were gone in two hours. Those who didn't get tickets can see Obama in Crow Agency on Monday afte ...
Senate duty blocks Obama Kentucky trip Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, facing a likely defeat in next Tuesday's primary election, won't travel to Kentucky before the voting, but said he hopes to have much more time to win over Kentucky voters before the November general election....
The Back Porch By Nerissa Young Much to-do has been made of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s inflammatory remarks about America and God’s vengeance from the pulpit of Sen. Barack Obama’s Chicago church. The people with whom a presidential candidate associates are also fair game in the mediacracy in...
Democrats disagree on timing of pullout Both candidates seeking the Democratic nomination in Kentucky's 2nd Congressional District hail from the same county, possess extensive experience in government and share similar positions on many key issues. But they sharply diverge on one issue that is...
Washington, D.C. — Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s family background as the son and grandson of admirals has given him a worldview shaped by the military, "and he has a hard time thinking beyond that," Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Ia., said Friday.
