And Senator Clinton knows it. It doesn't mean the issue will necessarily give her the lifeline she needs today, but if anything will, she's hit the right issue.

For the past forty years, the most predicitive economic indicator has been oil prices and how they affect consumers. This hasn't held...

Within an hour of arriving in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania for a politics and media panel at Gettysburg College a week ago, I was reminded that I was in the Alabama of Pennsylvania. So I decided to take the pulse of the voters.

58-year old Dee Rohrbaugh was busy...

There is more than a race for president going on at this moment. There is a generational conflict happening, and the breaking point seems to be split by women who are 40 years old.

Out of eight years of President Bush have emerged two formidable candidates in Senators Clinton and...

Here we are. Super Tuesday. In a race that some thought would be decided after New Hampshire, or after South Carolina, or after Florida. This race has been up for grabs from Day One.

Get used to it. The General Election will be too. Americans are determining our post-9/11, post-Bush...

Appealing to a split GOP, candidates played softball in the Florida Republican debate, trying to steal one base at a time.

Fairly soft pitches by the moderators were met with grounders, a few runs by Romney and Huckabee, but no homeruns by anyone. Romney looked confident and more comfortable....

The Nevada race has more clearly defined the fight-styles of Senators Clinton and Obama. The failed lawsuit filed by the teachers union to keep caucuses out of the reach of the Obama-endorsing Culinary union illustrated that Obama is capable of playing on the same tactical field as Clinton. Getting their...

Tonight's NBC candidates debate was like being in two places at once. First, a third of the debate was spent with three seasoned journalists chasing days old stories about Clinton and Obama campaign supporters comments about racial politics. As often seems to be the case, the two white male journalists...

So much has happened in the past week it boggles the mind. Just a week ago, Iowa caucused and gave Senator Obama a surprising and definite victory to bring to New Hampshire. Senators Edwards and Clinton were retooling messages and machinery, and the press corps was flying to New Hampshire....

Senator Barack Obama addressed a filled park in Nashua Monday evening while the sun went down slowly behind him. With each town hall meeting in New Hampshire, Obama seems to speak in a more confident, winning voice. His answers are more spontaneous. He is trying to hold on to a...

AMHERST, NH: Romney said he thinks the U.S. needs to give the current troop surge a chance, and "look for any news you can get that it is helping."

"In my opinion, we have to increase our military," said Romney. He said he thinks the U.S. should add "100,000 more...

On a hot, humid weekend, the big feet at the top of the Democratic field left the state to campaign elsewhere. Governor Bill Richardson and John Edwards canvassed the state with town hall meetings, and found large audiences waiting to hear their messages of change.

On Friday evening, Governor Richardson...

Shirtsleeves rolled up, an upbeat Senator Obama spoke to a crowd of about 400 locals and vacationers in the Lakes region of New Hampshire.

With smiling staffers out in full force and a noticeable secret service presence, Obama was confident, but modest about his fundraising success this past quarter.

"It's...

There's not as much red without Fred

FRED is in the building. The Wayfarer that is. Former Senator Fred Thompson makes his first Granite State visit on Thursday. Thompson will appear at a fundraiser for the NH Senate Republican Victory PAC. Senate Minority Leader Ted Gatsas got Thompson there by...