Voter excitement, always increased by a presidential election, is pushing registration through the roof so far this year, with more than 3.5 million people rushing to join in the historic balloting, according to an Associated Press survey that offers the first national snapshot. ...more

May 6, 2008

James Madison, our fifth president, memorialized his thoughts on the fundamental right of suffrage in the Federalist Papers. ...more

February 21, 2008

As of Tuesday afternoon, John Edwards' campaign staff members were still heading to North Dakota and Georgia. A television ad campaign was about to hit the airwaves. That evening, Edwards was flying here to deliver what was billed as a major speech on poverty. ...more

January 31, 2008

GAINESVILLE - Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian is scheduled to speak today at the University of Florida in Gainesville. ...more

January 15, 2008

When it comes to the issues, Dennis Kucinich is less amusing. His extremist positions make his candidacy difficult to take seriously. ...more

January 11, 2008

John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, gave Barack Obama a timely endorsement Thursday, snubbing Hillary Rodham Clinton as well as his own vice presidential running mate. ...more

January 11, 2008

Florida is having a dismal decade when it comes to presidential primaries. In 2000, Floridians voted in Republican and Democratic primaries on March 14. But the races had effectively ended four days earlier. ...more

January 6, 2008

It's been a busy year. But, then, you already knew that. After all, you were probably busy submitting video questions to presidential candidates on YouTube. Or infiltrating the audience at a John Kerry appearance. Or, you know, having a real life. ...more

January 1, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sheer will has taken John Edwards far, but only so far. His is the storybook life, still waiting for the storybook ending. ...more

December 29, 2007

It's getting ugly out on the presidential campaign trail. Attack ads are heating up, so are tempers. And, as usual, few of the attacks are truthful and fudging the facts is raised to an art form. No one knows this better than Republican candidate Mike Huckabee. Huckabee, who has been surging in the polls for weeks, is taking a pounding in Iowa at the hands of some of the folks who bankrolled the Swift Boat fiasco. A Houston, Texas, home builder, who funded much of the unsubstantiated rumors surrounding the Sen. John Kerry presidential bid, has turned on a Republican. He claims Huckabee was a big spender as governor of Arkansas. It's true Huckabee spent taxpayer money in Arkansas. He admits this, and has a good reason why he did it. His state was one of the worst in the nation on education, and the state's poor school system was infamous around the nation. ...more

December 28, 2007