A nostalgic Obama return to Iowa
Iowa is where Barack Obama’s path to the presidency began.
Iowa is where Barack Obama’s path to the presidency began.
Barack Obama’s campaign “infomercial” drew 26.4 million viewers to three major networks, proving modestly more popular than typical prime-time programming, preliminary figures showed Thursday.
In a rural Tennessee county, where you can’t buy alcohol or even find a Wal-Mart, residents stopped each other to ask if anyone knew the pale-skinned young local accused of plotting to kill Barack Obama.
Heading into the final 9 days of the race, McCain and Obama campaign in key battlegrounds that Bush won four years ago as the state-by-state Electoral College map tilts strongly in Obama’s favor.
Sen. Barack Obama has opened up his biggest advantage over John McCain in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama for president, criticizing his own Republican Party for what he called its narrow focus on irrelevant personal attacks.
Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain stretched facts, sometimes past the breaking point, as they addressed the financial crisis and more during their second presidential debate.
The heightened attacks, initiated over the weekend by the Republican campaign, gathered intensity Monday as Democrats resurrected their opponent’s links to a financial scandal two decades ago.
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday accused Democrat Barack Obama of “palling around with terrorists” because of his association with a former 1960s radical.