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Candidates' debate sparked after Bush speech in Israel Barack Obama laid into John McCain yesterday for advancing a tough-guy foreign policy that he called "naive and irresponsible," serving notice that he's ready to launch a full-throttle challenge to the Republican presidential contender on...
ABC News’ Sunlen Miller reports: Former Sen. George McGovern appeared at Barack Obama’s Sioux Falls, S.D., rally, and explained why he switched his early endorsement for Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., to the senator from Illinois. "I do so partly because...
What makes this presidential election different from all other presidential elections? And different from what we expected when the year began? First, neither party's presumptive nominee was chosen by massive support from primary voters, as John Kerry was in 2004, George W. Bush in 2000 or Bill...
WASHINGTON, May 17 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is reaching out to liberal and non-partisan bloggers in an effort to bring new voters to his presidential campaign. McCain invited them to join his regular conference call Thursday, the Washington Times reported. The call took place...
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...
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...
Medvedev, next U.S. president unlikely to have power, will to push change WASHINGTON - Russia’s new president has promised the kind of democratic change that Washington advocated during predecessor Vladimir Putin’s tenure. Few Russian analysts in Washington believe that Dmitry Medvedev, the new...
Republicans are and should be panicked over the fact that conservative Democrat Travis Childers just defeated Republican Greg Davis by a margin of 54%-46% in the race for a vacant Mississippi congressional seat. That seat is in a conservative district that had given President Bush a 25-point...
What does it take for Clinton to place a win for the Democrat Party in November above her own personal ambition? After the crushing defeat she suffered in North Carolina and her inability to establish a significant lead in Indiana, she needs to accept reality. Even with her master politician...
This general election more than most will test the courage of voters to avoid lesser-evil strategic voting that has propped up our two-party plutocracy. People with intelligence and conscience must resist peer pressure and the temptation to vote against John McCain by voting for Barack Obama. As...
