Democrat Barack Obama, seeking distance from his leading rivals, touted his health care expansion package as doing more to cut costs and deal with the root problems facing consumers "than any other proposal in this race." ...more

November 25, 2007

"So," the woman asked, "how do we beat the bitch?" And Sen. John McCain laughed. ...more

November 20, 2007

Giuliani, Clinton Maintain Leads In State Primary Polls Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Rodham Clinton retained their commanding leads in the presidential primaries in Florida in a poll released Friday. ...more

November 17, 2007

Under pressure in a feisty debate, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton accused her closest rivals Thursday night of slinging mud "right out of the Republican playbook" and leveled her sharpest criticism of the campaign at their records. ...more

November 16, 2007

If you've been listening to Mike Huckabee or John Edwards on the presidential trail, you may have heard that the U.S. is becoming a nation of rising inequality and shrinking opportunity. We'd refer those campaigns to a new study of income mobility by the Treasury Department that exposes those claims as so much populist hokum. ...more

November 15, 2007

Going into last season, Pasco's girls basketball team wasn't much on anyone's radar until the Pirates put together a hot run around the winter break and ended up finishing the season as Class 4A-District 8 runners-up. ...more

November 13, 2007

After searching for ways to rattle Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and stem her momentum in the Democratic presidential race, her chief rivals believe they have found an opening: what they cast as her evasiveness on several key issues. ...more

November 1, 2007

Democrats Barack Obama and John Edwards sharply challenged Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's candor, consistency and judgment Tuesday in a televised debate that underscored her front-runner status two months before the first presidential primary votes. ...more

October 31, 2007

TAMPA - Occasionally disruptive and often confrontational, John Russell recently had been banned from a Pasco County Democratic fundraiser, even though he was the party's nominee in last year's race for a congressional seat. ...more

October 30, 2007

Class warfare has never been a big seller with the American voter, and for good reason. In this still young land of opportunity, the next rags-to-riches success story may very well be one of us. ...more

October 27, 2007