Sen. John McCain spoke out against the growing nastiness his Republican crowds have been demonstrating toward Sen. Barack Obama, demanding that his presidential rival be treated with respect. At a town hall meeting Friday afternoon, he took four different opportunities to promise that he will treat the Democratic nominee with respect and to ask the [...]
The fate of an emergency economic rescue plan remains uncertain this morning as the House prepares for a climactic midday vote, but both Democratic and Republican leaders say they are optimistic that they can marshal more support for the $700 billion bailout than they did last Monday. On that narrow vote earlier this week, the [...]
Beginning of the debate with a handshake and a question if Governor Sarah Palin could address Senator Biden by his first name “Can I call you Joe” it seemed Palin had already started her home town charm. Gwen Ifil the moderator who was selected by the Presidential debate commission and who was already under attack [...]
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has taken a 22-percentage-point lead in New York over Republican candidate John McCain, a Siena College poll reported Thursday. The big lead comes after McCain cut Obama’s edge in New York to 5 percentage points in a Siena Poll three weeks ago, conducted just days after the Republican National Convention. [...]
Vice presidential nominees Joe Biden and Sarah Palin square off Thursday at Washington University in St. Louis for their first only debate, which could be among the most closely watched events of the 2008 presidential campaign. And observers believe both vice presidential contenders need to watch what they say. “They’ve both got to worry more [...]
Recently trailing or tied, Democrat Barack Obama now leads Republican John McCain in a trio of the most critical, vote-rich states five weeks before the election, according to presidential poll results released Wednesday. The Democrat’s support jumped to 50% or above in Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania in Quinnipiac University surveys taken during the weekend — [...]
John McCain’s decision to cancel a campaign event in Michigan next week was not a matter of scheduling: Mr. McCain is giving up his effort to take the state back into the red column, concluding that economic distress there has simply put the state out of reach, according to Republicans familiar with the decision. Michigan [...]
In an effort to revive the stalled financial rescue package, Senate leaders are trying to jump-start the process by tweaking the bill in hopes of winning the 12 House votes needed to cover Monday’s shortfall. But no matter how it’s altered, the package still faces substantial hurdles when the House takes it up again. Despite [...]
The Bush administration has been trying to convince lawmakers and the American people for more than a week now that the effort to buy toxic mortgages from U.S. financial institutions is not about bailing out Wall Street — it is about the economy. President Bush emerged from the Oval Office for the second day in [...]
John McCain will attend the first presidential debate against Barack Obama and resume all campaign activities, his campaign said Friday. The Republican candidate will participate despite the absence of an agreement in Congress on the federal government’s financial bailout package, a condition he had originally set when he called Wednesday to delay the first presidential [...]
