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Forget all the rhetoric about four more years of Bush, Old Politics vs. New Politics and all that jazz. Absent any plausible reason for a la...

After giving up Joe Lieberman as a running mate in favor of Mrs. Joe Sixpack, John McCain brought out Joe the Plumber for tonight's deba...

As his campaign dances at the edge of the subject, John McCain shies away but it is the Obama campaign that is confronting the racial issue...

The two most recent occupants of the Oval Office were in prime time tonight, while aspirants to succeed them prepared to go to the White Hou...

As Wall Street numbers tank, the Democratic candidate rises past a milestone number in the campaign, leading John McCain by 52 to 43 percen...

If Barack Obama was not already inclined toward him as a running mate, John McCain and Vladimir Putin in the past week should have helped ma...

By the standards of traditional politics, in tonight's talkfest with Rick Warren, John McCain "won," but the verdict of victo...

After Barack Obama or John McCain leaves the White House, where will future generations go to tour the boyhood home that shaped a president?...

John McCain says he is sending the Curly and Moe of his campaign, Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman, to the Georgia war zone. To do what? Th...

The campaign exchanges recall the clichéd barroom banter: "You're ugly." "You're drunk." "But I'll be s...

John McCain has inherited George W. Bush's mantle as the candidate you would most like to have a beer with, but Barack Obama is catching...

As much as Americans want something new in Washington, Barack Obama's promise of change is colliding with doubts, not all of them raised...

Three out of four Americans are depressed about the way things are going, according to a new CNN poll , the worst national malaise since 198...

As the new Gallup Poll shows him leading John McCain nationally by 49 to 40 per cent, there is the question . "Where's the Bounce?...

The memory of angry millions in European streets five years ago to protest the imminent US attack on Iraq will be the background for Barack ...

The vacillation over a speech site for Barack Obama evokes memories of previous fusses raised by American presidents in post-World War II G...

Barack Obama and John McCain are squaring off on foreign policy this week, but there is an oddly retrospective quality to the debate over Ir...

The sight of Barack Obama actually being named presumptive Democratic candidate for President, no matter how expected. is astonishing to ey...

John McCain is cheating on voters with George Bush, but he's not good at it, getting caught in a quickie at the Phoenix airport before ...

In warning Republicans to "lay off my wife" in their ads, Barack Obama yesterday was challenging John McCain to call off the dogs...