Till the Convention: Ugly, Uglier, Ugliest
Unchallenged and undefined by the Democrats' side, John McCain should only drive his numbers up, while infighting brings the Democrats down.
Unchallenged and undefined by the Democrats' side, John McCain should only drive his numbers up, while infighting brings the Democrats down.
Bloomberg | Posted 01.24.2008 | Politics
The race for the Democratic presidential nomination is tightening as voters say they want both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on a national ticket, ...
USA Today | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics
The good news, Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton told USA TODAY's Susan Page this afternoon, is that only 62% of Republicans say ...
Washington Post | Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics
Rep. Ron Paul continues to trail his opponents in national polls. He's yet to finish in the top three of any state contests. (He placed fourth in the ...
New York Times | Michael Cooper | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics
The bad news for Rudolph W. Giuliani Tuesday night in Michigan was that Representative Ron Paul of Texas appears to have beaten him handily again, jus...
The Hill | Manu Raju | Posted 01.14.2008 | Politics
John McCain's rising presidential campaign is provoking fresh questions for Republicans and Democrats alike about the role Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn....
AP | Posted 01.14.2008 | Politics
A Nevada judge said Monday that Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich must be included in Tuesday's candidates' debate in Nevada. Senior ...
The Hill | Klaus Marre | Posted 01.14.2008 | Politics
As the issue of race dominates the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) on Monday received the en...
Reuters | Andrew Stern | Posted 01.14.2008 | Politics
Republicans Mitt Romney and John McCain turned up the heat on their bitter rivalry on Monday, trading charges over the economy and abortion on the ev...
New York Times | Katharine Q. Seelye | Posted 01.13.2008 | Politics
Robert L. Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television, who is campaigning today in South Carolina with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, just...
Reuters | Adam Tanner | Posted 01.13.2008 | Politics
Amid growing worries about a worsening of the U.S. economy, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama proposed a $75 billion economic stimulus pl...
MSNBC | Domenico Montanaro | Posted 01.13.2008 | Politics
This morning on Meet the Press, Hillary Clinton defended her 2002 vote for the Iraq war resolution, saying that she "thought it was a vote to put insp...
CNN | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama accused Bill Clinton of twisting some of his early remarks on the Iraq war in a speech the former president gave the night before the New...
HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
Manchester, NH -- The conventional wisdom today about the results of the New Hampshire Democratic primary does not take into account the complexity of...
AP | JIM KUHNHENN and GLEN JOHNSON | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has decided to pull his advertising from South Carolina and Florida, in a sign of trouble for a campaign...
The Hill | Klaus Marre | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) presidential campaign is raising contributions at the rate of $1 million a day so far this year, campaign manager David P...
Salon | Glenn Greenwald | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
Here's the cover for this week's issue of The Weekly Standard, excitingly available on newsstands now. Here, once again, we encounter the renowned ju...
AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama talked of introducing some Chicago smackdown to his politics of hope Wednesday, seeking a rebound after Hillary Rodham Clinton grasped v...
Election Central | Greg Sargent | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
The Tears are now officially an issue in Campaign 2008. Obama's national campaign co-chair, Jesse Jackson, Jr., just went on MSNBC and appeared to qu...
Political Radar | Kate Snow and Jennifer Parker | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
The woman whose empathetic question -- "how do you do it?" -- sparked uncharacteristic emotion Monday from Sen. Hillary Clinton ended up voting for Se...
Atlantic | Marc Ambinder | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
Michigan will be Mitt Romney's last stand; his advisers are cautiously optimistic. They know McCain has a built-in advantage because independents won'...
InsideCable | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton made the rounds of the cable news networks this morning. Both appeared on FNC's Fox and Friends and CNN's Am...
AP | MIKE MOKRZYCKI | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
John McCain's experience, reputation for "straight talk" and appeal among moderates helped him beat Mitt Romney in New Hampshire's Republican primary,...
Daniel Nichanian | Posted 01.09.2008 | Home
The polls did not get this election wrong. Any careful reading of them would have had to concede that yesterday's voting looked unpredictable. The media had this information, yet chose to show the race as a done deal.
Political Wire | Stuart Rothenberg | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
While some will suggest that Sen. Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire victory can be traced to her emotional comments shortly before the primary, and othe...
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
When Katie Couric told Haaretz that "The glory days of TV news...
**UPDATE 7/25** ThinkProgress now reports that the bar...
There is one more John McCain gaffe that...
As we have observed throughout the last several years,...
In a flagrant political act, the State Department has...
Major news organizations are drawing...
** Update below: Nas delivers Fox petition to Stephen...
BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
HOUSTON — A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off...
A chimp in Japan escaped the sweltering confines of his cage, and a zookeeper with a tranquilizer gun...
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at...
Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics