Before resting from the grueling presidential race, John McCain began discussing with senior aides what role he will play in the Senate now that he has promised to work with the man who defeated him for president. One obvious focus will be the war in Iraq. After two years spent more on the campaign than in the Senate, McCain will return as the ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee. ...more

November 5, 2008

Presidential candidate John McCain isn't happy about having to explain why the Republican Party has had to buy running mate Sarah Palin $150,000 in clothes, hair styling and accessories. ...more

October 24, 2008

Among Republicans here for their national convention, the initial surprise - if not shock - of John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate quickly morphed into near elation. ...more

September 2, 2008

The system for funding Social Security is "a disgrace" because it forces young Americans to pay into a program that is unlikely to benefit them in its current form, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain said this week, wading into politically touchy territory. ...more

July 10, 2008

Leapfrogging past a primary contest that his supporters say is effectively over, Barack Obama opened his general election campaign for Florida on Wednesday with a standard stump speech and a surprise endorsement from Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio. ...more

May 22, 2008

the scourge of earmarked, pork-barrel spending in Congress - across the Alabama River on the Gee's Bend ferry, to one of his old Navy posts at Cecil Field in Jacksonville and to the Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pa., where he marveled at the new technology. ...more

May 4, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama said Saturday that the Republican presidential nominee in waiting, Sen. John McCain, has lobbyists as top aides and "many of them have been running their business on the campaign bus while they've been helping him." ...more

February 24, 2008

Rudy Giuliani brought his anti-tax, anti-terrorism campaign message to the Tampa Bay area Monday as polls showed the Florida primary, which Giuliani must win, turning into a four-way dead heat. ...more

January 15, 2008

Wasteful spender or champion of fiscal restraint: GOP presidential rivals Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani accused one another of the former and claimed the latter Saturday. ...more

November 25, 2007

Dogged by suggestions that he's too old to be president, John McCain often has said he should bring his mother to campaign stops to demonstrate his good genes. On Wednesday, he did. ...more

October 18, 2007