Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the most successful female presidential candidate in U.S. history, officially ended her campaign Saturday with a forceful promise to help elect Sen. Barack Obama - and the declaration that, even though she had failed to "shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling," a gender barrier had been crossed. ...more

June 8, 2008

Republican Sen. John McCain wasted no time Tuesday night in launching his first general-election broadside against Sen. Barack Obama, casting the Democrat as an out-of-touch liberal who offers a false promise of change. ...more

June 4, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and his wife, Michelle, announced Saturday they would leave their longtime Chicago church, Trinity United Church of Christ, after racially charged comments by a visiting pastor last week dragged the presidential candidate into yet another controversy over religion and race. ...more

June 1, 2008

Reverberations from the Sunday sermon of a Roman Catholic priest who mocked Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton at Sen. Barack Obama's home church here continued to spread Friday, after the priest offered an apology and the archbishop of Chicago gave him a public reprimand for "partisan campaigning." ...more

May 31, 2008

The Barack Obama campaign said Tuesday that the candidate mistakenly referred to the wrong Nazi death camp when relating the story of a great-uncle who helped liberate the camps in World War II. ...more

May 28, 2008

Republican John McCain on Monday sharply criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama for not having been to Iraq since 2006, and said they should visit the war zone together. ...more

May 27, 2008

1. According to the press, Senator Obama overwhelmed Senator Clinton in North Carolina and Senator Clinton barely beat Senator Obama in Indiana. Knowing the location of Indiana to Senator Obama's home state of Illinois, should Senator Obama not have overwhelmed Senator Clinton in Indiana? Confused? 2. Millions of voters voted in the Michigan and Florida Primaries. The DNC, headed by Howard (King George) Dean has stated that these votes do not count! Mad as hell! I hold my vote as sacred, and if my delegates are not seated, I will sit out of the presidential election for the first time since 1964. ...more

May 9, 2008

The 1st Congressional District, the northernmost in the most culturally Southern state, has given the nation William Faulkner and Elvis Presley, and next Tuesday will have a special congressional election that will test the Republican hope that Barack Obama and his former pastor can be the basis of a Republican strategy to nationalize congressional races to the disadvantage of Democrats. ...more

May 9, 2008

It has become blatantly clear this week that the Democratic superdelegates will never find themselves in a chapter of "Profiles in Courage." ...more

May 9, 2008

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton called for a vote Friday in the Democratic-controlled Congress on a summertime suspension of the federal gasoline tax, a plan that Sen. Barack Obama dismissed as a political stunt that would cost thousands of construction jobs. ...more

May 3, 2008