Our Last Chance to Get the Country Back on Course
Reluctant Democrats, feminists and independents must now confront one simple reality: John McCain will be more of the same, while Barack Obama will take us into a different direction.
Reluctant Democrats, feminists and independents must now confront one simple reality: John McCain will be more of the same, while Barack Obama will take us into a different direction.
Reuters | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
Democrat Barack Obama has a 7-point lead on Republican John McCain in the U.S. presidential race, and holds a small edge on the crucial question of wh...
Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
Rasmussen Reports' latest poll shows Barack Obama taking 44% of the vote while John McCain gets 42%. When "leaners" are included the numbers are even...
Bill Folman | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
A historic victory is Obama's grasp so long as he remembers the football team who entered the second half 17 points ahead and doesn't throw out the brilliant strategy that got him this far.
Sherman Yellen | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
Those who believe that Obama (though he is too ready to compromise his principles) offers something good for America must remind the voters that McCain no longer has any principles to compromise.
Time | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
Illinois Senator Barack Obama enters the General Election with a tight lead, 43% to 38%, over Arizona Senator John McCain, according to a new TIME Mag...
Simon Rosenberg | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
McCain is a weak and bumbling candidate, ill-suited for a presidential race, and is still struggling to bring his party together. His polling numbers have slipped from the low 40s to 38, 36 -- and now 33.
Lanny Davis | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
Despite all the recent headlines, Obama cannot afford to be confident -- and he needs to reach out to expand his base. Clinton would still help him most as a vice presidential candidate.
Newsweek | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
We are in the opening days of a presidential campaign that pits youth against age, the virtues of experience against the freshness and riskiness of th...
New York Sun | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
While this year's presidential campaign has been marked by historic firsts, the nominations of senators McCain and Obama will renew one surprising tre...
AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday rejected Republican rival John McCain's proposal for 10 joint town-hall ap...
Wall Street Journal | Jackie Calms | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama begins his presidential race against John McCain with a lead in the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, but not so great an edge as...
Washington Independent | John Dougherty | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
Sen. John McCain's big struggle to energize a suspicious conservative Republican base and attract crucial independent voters is a national fight that ...
Guy T. Saperstein | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
Simply put, this is the worst possible time for any Republican to be running for president, and Obama is the perfect candidate for Democrats, and a nightmare for McCain.
Huffington Post | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
Hilary Rosen: I Am Not a Bargaining Chip, I Am a Democrat: Senator Clinton's speech last night was a justifiably proud recitation of her accomplishme...
Robert Creamer | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
Democrats must now focus on accomplishing ten critical tasks that are key to winning the presidency this fall.
Robert Creamer | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
The odds are good that Obama will win the presidency. And if Democrats execute with precision during the campaign, the odds are good that he will win with a healthy margin. Here's why.
AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama is competing strongly against Republican John McCain for women, Catholics and other groups that have shunned him in th...
Dylan Loewe | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
What is becoming unmistakably evident from the first major brawl of the general election is that McCain should be afraid of the fact that Obama is not like other Democrats.
NY Times | Jim Rutenberg | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
The contest with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton not quite over and the one with Senator John McCain not quite under way, Senator Barack Obama is float...
LA Times | Peter Nicholas | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama hasn't managed after months of political combat to force Hillary Rodham Clinton out of the presidential race, so he's about to try anothe...
The Page | Mark Halperin | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics
Plans to take on McCain at a speech before the annual meeting of the Associated Press after attacks by both rivals for "bitter" comments. Obama spoke...
Huffington Post | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., has apologized for comments he made about Sen. McCain that were reported in the Charleston Gazette: "McCain was a figh...
MyDD | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
SurveyUSA is out with three polls today that shows the first signs of an Obama electoral defeat in November if he should become the Democratic nominee...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics
Late Tuesday evening Sen. Barack Obama took a moment from waiting for election results to call Sen. John McCain and congratulate him on his Republican...
An ABC-TV outlet in Houston, and now the Houston Chronicle,...
The McCain campaign implied on Wednesday that Barack Obama's commitment...
***UPDATED BELOW*** During a CBS interview on Tuesday, John McCain made...
John McCain made a mistake this evening, which as far as...
There is one more John McCain gaffe that...
BERLIN -- On what used to be the East German side of the Brandenburg Gate, Linnea and...
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
When Katie Couric told Haaretz that "The glory days of TV news...
BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
If you're wondering about the recent articles claiming that a study found...
HOUSTON — A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off...
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at...
Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics