Democrats won a key concession from the White House on legislation to bail out the financial industry on Wednesday, then sought to scale back the $700 billion price tag. President Bush readied a prime-time speech to rally public support for his plan to stave off a deepening economic crisis. ...more

September 24, 2008

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Republican John McCain protected offshore tax shelters worth billions of dollars to U.S. insurance giants. ...more

September 24, 2008

There's a very simple reason why Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was willing to risk life and limb in order to appear in The Villages, Florida's answer to Stepford, over the weekend. ...more

September 23, 2008

WASHINGTON - Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks - many calling them "lazy," "violent" or responsible for their own troubles. ...more

September 20, 2008

Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama will share the stage this Friday for the first of three presidential candidate forums. ...more

September 19, 2008

A day after he dismissed a federal bailout for American International Group, Republican John McCain announced Wednesday that circumstances had forced him to shift his position and that he supported the proposed $85 billion rescue of the insurance giant. ...more

September 18, 2008

WASHINGTON - A top Hillary Rodham Clinton fundraiser threw her support behind Republican John McCain today saying he will lead the country in a centrist fashion and accusing the Democrats of becoming too extreme. ...more

September 17, 2008

During the 1980 presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan, in a debate with President Jimmy Carter, famously suggested that voters answer a simple, but potent, question. ...more

September 14, 2008

At a lunch meeting Thursday with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, former President Clinton said he would do "a substantial number of things" to for Obama's campaign this fall. ...more

September 12, 2008

NORFOLK, Va. - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Wednesday accused Republican John McCain's campaign of using "lies and phony outrage and Swift-boat politics" in claiming he used a sexist comment against vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. ...more

September 10, 2008