Those 75,000 Democrats who will pack a football stadium for Barack Obama's convention speech won't be there just to whoop and holler on television. They'll form the world's largest phone bank to boost voter registration: fired-up supporters using computer targeting the campaign has spent months putting together. ...more

July 31, 2008

Four dollar-a-gallon gasoline has done something few Republicans thought possible a few months ago: given them hope. United behind a renewed push for offshore oil drilling, Republican members of Congress and the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, think they have found their best political issue of the 2008 campaign. ...more

July 27, 2008

With his moves last week involving Iraq, Iran and North Korea, President Bush accelerated a shift toward centrist foreign policies, a change that has cheered Democrats, angered some Republicans and roiled the presidential campaign. ...more

July 20, 2008

TAMPA - Once unthinkable in Florida, the possibility of drilling for oil off the coast got much more thinkable this week after Gov. Charlie Crist, presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain and President Bush called for an end to a federal moratorium. ...more

June 19, 2008

With gasoline topping $4 a gallon, President Bush urged Congress on Wednesday to lift its long-standing ban on offshore oil and gas drilling, saying the United States needs to increase its energy production. Democrats quickly rejected the idea. ...more

June 19, 2008

Almost precisely at the midpoint between the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 3 and the general election on Nov. 4, the general election campaign is on. ...more

June 10, 2008

For a while there, I worried what it would take to get the message through to Hillary Clinton - maybe something like that scene out of "The Godfather," when the movie director wakes up with a horse's head in his bed? ...more

June 8, 2008

Despite his coy avoidance of the topic, Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida is acting like he'd love to be vice president of the United States. ...more

June 3, 2008

Change isn't blowing in the wind for homeowner insurance changes that local leaders wanted made before the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season opens tomorrow. ...more

May 31, 2008

Susan Bennett is a white Tampa lawyer and an early Hillary Clinton backer. She was among the 15,000-plus who attended last week's Barack Obama rally at the St. Pete Times Forum. ...more

May 28, 2008