Political Campaigns

by Mike Dorning Rumors always have played a powerful role in political campaigns. But the Internet now permits thinly sourced reports--whether true or not--to spread at the speed of light across the nation and the globe. The Barack Obama campaign......

by Mark Silva and updated Well, call Al Gore nothing if not cautious. Nearly two weeks after Sen. Barack Obama clinched the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, the party's nominee from 2000 -- winner of the popular vote, if not the......

Al Gore, on his blog, announces that he's going to be endorsing Obama tonight: "Over the next four years, we are going to face many difficult challenges -- including bringing our troops home from Iraq, fixing our economy, and......

by Mark Silva and updated The threat of off-shore oil derricks on the horizon once made for great political campaign theater in Florida, where an aversion to near Gulf-shore drilling runs deep and where 27 Electoral votes are nothing to......

by Aamer Madhani and Katie Fretland The campaign of Sen. Barack Obama today rejected a statement by retired Gen. Wesley Clark who questioned whether John McCain's "riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down" qualified him to be the......

One of the spats of the weekend focused on retired Gen. Wesley Clark's critical remark on Face the Nation about the significance of McCain's Vietnam service: "I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is......

Obama provides a little description of his telephone conversation with Bill Clinton: "We did not belabor the primary season. I think what we both acknowledged is, is that when you???re in a tough primary battle you say things that afterward......

A story summary on Politico, under the headline "Obama tour staged for political pop:" "His aides insist the trip is a fact-finding and relationship-building mission, But Obama???s every step is being managed to maximize political advantage." This has...

by Mike Dorning and Aamer Madhani and updated BERLIN--Under criticism for canceling a planned visit with wounded U.S soldiers under treatment at a base in Germany, the Barack Obama campaign said today that they made the decision after the Pentagon......

by Mark Silva Barack Obama isn't traveling alone in Europe - anchors of the network evening news shows are traveling, too. And Brian Williams, anchor of NBC Nightly News, sat with Obama in Berlin before a long-anticipated public address there.......

by Mike Dorning LONDON -- Barack Obama's audacious nine-day foreign tour offered a cascade of vivid images and a powerful speech that went a long way toward encouraging an international audience and a domestic one to envision this relative political......

by Frank James The Republican National Committee e-mailed a transcript from an MSNBC report this afternoon by correspondent Andrea Mitchell. The RNC wanted people to focus on the part of Mitchell's report where she said that the Pentagon told Sen.......