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While Republican Mike Huckabee wishes voters Merry Christmas in a television ad, a group organized by his supporters makes automated phone calls slipping the knife into his opponents.
John Edwards' presidential campaign is entitled to $8.8 million in federal matching funds and John McCain's could get $5.8 million, election regulators said Thursday.
Presidential hopeful Bill Richardson on Saturday decried the "nasty little fights" between his Democratic rivals, saying the scuffles distract from serious issues in the campaign.
Members of the bipartisan ONE campaign are encouraging people to ask the presidential candidates what they would do about the world's poorest people in $1.8 million worth of television ads to be shown in the weeks before the nation's first presidential contests.
Little change in security is expected for presidential candidates and their New Hampshire campaign offices following a hostage incident at a Hillary Rodham Clinton office.
Mitt Romney is the target, abortion is the issue, and the $100,000 ad buy will change the tone of the Iowa and New Hampshire presidential primaries.
A union-financed advocacy group that played a major role in the 2004 elections has agreed to pay a $580,000 fine after the Federal Election Commission concluded it illegally ran advertising against President Bush and in favor of Democrat John Kerry.
The next 100 days on the presidential campaign trail promise a whirlwind of back-to-back debates, numerous appearances around the country — and, oh yes, primaries and caucuses slated to begin Jan. 3 in Iowa.
There's a little-girl memory that Najoh Tita-Reid recounts, as a way of explaining what's behind a new campaign by the nation's biggest advertiser.
Democrat Barack Obama promoted his tax relief plan and Republican Mitt Romney likened Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's experience to an internship in television ads that the two presidential candidates began airing Friday in New Hampshire.
When it comes to presidential politics, the news media loves front-runners. And seems to hate them, too.
Turkey has options if it decides to launch a major assault on Kurdish rebels in Iraq: airstrikes on suspected hideouts, helicopter-borne commando raids, or the long-term occupation of a "buffer" zone to seal off paths across the mountainous border.
Fergus Cullen, New Hampshire's youthful Republican Party chairman, takes notice of these things: The ninth piece of mail from Rudy Giuliani, the second missive from Mitt Romney in two weeks, a new campaign staffer for one of the presidential campaigns
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton ended September with more money in the bank than rival Barack Obama, holding $35 million (euro24.6) cash on hand for the presidential primary contests to his $32 million (euro22.5 million). Both were far ahead of Rudy Giuliani, the money leader on the Republican side, underscoring the financial underscoring the financial disparity between the parties. Giuliani reported $11.6 million (euro8.2 million) in the bank for the GOP primary. Clinton, who had trailed Obama in fundraising and in money in the bank at the end of June, edged past him with an aggressive third quarter of fundraising. Neither Obama nor Clinton had yet filed detailed reports of their third-quarter finances with the Federal Election Commission. The reports were due at 11:59 p.m. EDT Monday. Clinton, who also has been raising money for the general election, had a total of $50 million (euro35.2 million) in the bank, her campaign said Monday night. But $15 million (euro10.6 million) of that cannot be used for the pr
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton ended September with more money in the bank than rival Barack Obama, holding $35 million cash on hand for the presidential primary contests to his $32 million.
John Edwards once lived in the heart of Washington's Georgetown district, was squired around the Capitol by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and led the presidential field in fundraising thanks to donations from trial lawyers.
Thou shalt not wear a shirt and tie at a lobster shack near a New Hampshire beach. Thou shalt not invoke upscale grocery stores while campaigning in farm-rich Iowa. And thou shalt not call South Carolina's Lowcountry "the lowlands."
A law that bars political candidates from deliberately lying about their opponents is unconstitutional, a sharply divided state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Several presidential candidates have disclosed their third-quarter fundraising totals this week. More details will be available later this month when they file financial reports with the Federal Election Commission. Here's a look at the numbers:
Front-running Republicans Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney outpaced the rest of the GOP presidential field in summer campaign fundraising, but newcomer Fred Thompson was hot on their heels.
Hillary Rodham Clinton seized on public attention over President Bush's veto of child health insurance legislation to launch a new ad Thursday that casts her as the candidate best able to provide universal health care.
Long-shot Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul raised a surprising $5 million during the past three months, capitalizing on his stance as the only anti-war contender in the GOP field.
Republican Rudy Giuliani compared Hillary Rodham Clinton to 1972 Democratic nominee George McGovern on Wednesday and chided his rival for adding a Southern lilt to her voice as he intensified his criticism.
Hillary Rodham Clinton defied the usual slow flow of summer money, tapping 100,000 new donors and outpacing all other presidential candidates in the chase for campaign cash over the past three months.
Barack Obama raised more than $19 million this summer for the presidential primaries, holding his lead for now in the race for campaign cash though still trailing Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton in national polls.
He calls her "Mrs. C." And she calls on him to add a little celebrity gloss to her presidential campaign.
Um, check your calendar, Madame Senator? The Iowa caucuses are on Jan. 3rd, not the 14th...
HAMPTON, N.H. — Rudolph W.
With polls showing Edwards in a dead heat with Obama and Clinton in Iowa, and Edwards listed as the preferred second choice of supporters of other candidates (an important factor in the Iowa Caucuses) an argument could be made that Edwards is actually leading in Iowa at this poin …
The Online campaign to "Give Bruce Forsyth a Knighthood" is going from strength to strength.
By the final weeks of 1984, well before either turned 40, John Edwards and Mitt Romney had already built successful careers. But the two men were each on the verge of an entirely new level of financial success.
The Problem The way we fund our political campaigns is broken. Many people, many viners have argued that no real change will happen in this country until we fix the system that funds elections.
Most neutral observers would agree that Hillary Clinton's response to Barack Obama's rise has been bungled. Over the past few weeks, we have seen her campaign attempt again and again to attack him, only to make itself look foolish.
Now I am sure everyone has seen all the Christmas campaign ads by now but just in case, here they are. Huckabee Obama Giuliani Clinton Edwards These are the ones I am aware of but I am sure there are more to come, feel free to post them when you see them.
who will win?
Senator Bob Kerrey has apologised for linking Barack Obama's Muslim connections to the possibility of him reaching out to Black youth and Muslims around the world. But I do not see anything negative in that observation. There was a lot of truth in it.
John Edwards. Love child? Scandal. Blonde campaign worker formerly claimed Edwards was father, now says other campaign worker Andrew Young is the father. This is the National Enquirer, after all, but they did break the Jesse Jackson baby and other juicy tidbits over the years.
Rudy Giuliani's new campaign ad features the candidate attempting to soften his tough-guy image by wearing a fuzzy red sweater vest while sitting in front of a Christmas tree.
I've been alerted to an interesting Boston Globe article about Barack Obama's role, when he was in the Illinois legislature, in the attempt to get the state committed to universal health care.
John McCain, yesterday: "We had a chance to change government and it changed us," McCain said. "We didn't lose the election in 2006 because of Iraq, we lost it because the Republican majority allowed the largest increase in spending since the Great Society."
The recent drop in support for Hillary Clinton is very telling but not entirely unexpected. It was bound to happen at some point.
Hillary Clinton has been a much better senator than Barack Obama. She has been a serious, substantive lawmaker who has worked effectively across party lines.
TAKOMA PARK, MARYLAND - December 17 -- More than 500 organizations from every corner of the U.S. and across the world have signed a statement explicitly rejecting the use of nuclear power as a means of addressing the climate crisis.
WELD COUNTY — Opponents of a proposed uranium mine in Weld County say more than 5,700 people have signed a petition against the project. Powertech Uranium Corp., based in Vancouver, British Columbia, has proposed a $20 million uranium mine on 5,760 acres of farmland.
CONCORD, N.H. — Senator John McCain, seeking to capitalize on a string of highly sought newspaper endorsements, is making an aggressive push to attract independent voters, who helped drive his victory here eight years ago.
Some Obama supporters have asked why former Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb., who endorsed Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., today, mentioned her opponent Sen. Barack Hussein Obama's middle name in remarks published in The Washington Post. (LINK)
The Senate is ducking its responsibility to keep the Federal Election Commission stocked with qualified appointees to police the already booming election season.
The pattern could not have been clearer, as described by Arkansas columnist Garrick Feldman, who crusaded against Huckabee's feckless, faith-based clemency and pardon policies. Killers and rapists need not express remorse, as the Green case showed.
Barack Obama is still having trouble selling his campaign of hope to nation's influential black ministers — a group that could push him to the head of the Democratic pack.
THIS campaign season has been in desperate need of its own reincarnation of Howard Beale from "Network": a TV talking head who would get mad as hell and not take it anymore.
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