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Republican presidential hopeful John McCain tried to engage voters Saturday in the faraway turmoil in Pakistan, arguing the United States needs a president with his experience to deal with international crises. Complete Story...
THE RACE: The presidential race for Democrats and Republicans in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Seeking victories in two states, Mitt Romney launched new hard-hitting ads against his top Republican presidential rivals Friday, criticizing Mike Huckabee on foreign policy and spending in an Iowa commercial while assailing John McCain on taxes and immigration in a spot for New Hampshire.
Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney delivered his closing argument to New Hampshire voters Thursday, then headed west to seek a victory in the Iowa caucuses that would allow him to return with a winner's momentum.
Mitt Romney, the businessman-turned-politician, is employing his retail skills as he tries to close the sale in early voting Iowa and New Hampshire.
The most wide-open presidential race in a half century pushed unpredictably into a decisive new phase Wednesday, the rhetoric a bit more pointed and the appeals a tad more urgent in the final run-up to the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary.
John Edwards tried to shore up his New Hampshire support Wednesday with promises of fighting the establishment, changing Washington — and even speaking with a Southern accent.
THE RACE: The presidential race for the Republican, Democratic nominations in New Hampshire.
Taking aim at a rallying John McCain, New Hampshire front-runner Mitt Romney said Saturday that his GOP presidential rival had failed "Reagan 101" by twice opposing President Bush's tax cuts.
Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said Saturday he's glad to be back campaigning in New Hampshire after canceling some events because of illness.
As the holidays interrupt campaigning for the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, will any candidate be the Grinch who works through Christmas?
Republican John McCain on Wednesday asked for an investigation of thousands of calls to New Hampshire voters disparaging him and supporting rival Mike Huckabee.
THE RACE: The presidential race for Democrats and Republicans in New Hampshire.
Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Richardson said Tuesday that he wants to keep the Iraq war front and center in the final weeks before the New Hampshire primary.
Democrat John Edwards is going populist on TV and yoking himself to celebrities in person as he hunts for a winning formula in next month's New Hampshire primary.
The increased attention Rudy Giuliani has been giving to New Hampshire doesn't seem to be paying off. The Republican still trails in the first-in-the-nation primary and also faces likely defeats in other early voting states.
Republican John McCain is having quite a moment. He's rising in the polls. He's got major newspaper endorsements in Iowa and New Hampshire. And now he's getting help with this state's legions of independent voters from Joe Lieberman, the contrarian who was Democrat Al Gore's running mate in 2000.
Sen. John McCain, trying to build momentum toward a reprise of his 2000 New Hampshire primary victory, is piling up high-profile endorsements, including one from another political maverick, Sen. Joseph Lieberman.
The Des Moines Register's editorial board is endorsing Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton ahead of the state's Jan. 3 presidential caucuses, contending they top the field in competence and readiness to lead in a time of dissension at home and distrust and peril abroad.
With three weeks left before the New Hampshire primary, Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is still trying to introduce himself to Granite State voters.
White House hopeful John McCain on Saturday called on Republican rival Mike Huckabee to end push polling in New Hampshire tied to his presidential campaign's supporters, but Huckabee denied any involvement.
DES MOINES, Iowa - “It was worse than a crime, it was a blunder.”
Same-sex couples plan to celebrate New Hampshire's new civil unions law by holding a group ceremony the minute the law takes effect Jan. 1, organizers said Wednesday.
Some sloppy reporting, instant web indignation, and holiday vacations produced a surge of hysteria that might have been avoided.
Sen. John McCain joked about his ever changing status, now that polls indicate he is on the upswing in New Hampshire. McCain thanks his supporters and discusses the war on terrorism.
Felice Belman, executive editor of the liberal Concord Monitor, and Joe McQuaid, publisher of the conservative New Hampshire Union Leader, say the candidate who might get a lot of support from independents this year is Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul.
Once left for dead as his campaign sputtered low on money, he has come back strong.
In this last episode of 2007, Will and Rob wrap up the first year of Political Lunch with some highlights from the last year. Check back early in 2008 for coverage from Iowa and New Hampshire.
I could not disagree more with Barack Obama's pork spending, tax raising, and defeat-embracing liberal agenda, but a recent attack by the Clinton campaign on Mr. Obama was the worst sort of the politics of personal destruction. It was one based on racial stereotypes.
As first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton jaw-boned the authoritarian president of Uzbekistan to leave his car and shake hands with people. She argued with the Czech prime minister about democracy.
Barack Obama has become a one-trick pony. But what a trick it is!
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul addresses the role of the media during early campaigns in Iowa and New Hampshire.
How influential will Newviners be in the 2008 presidential election?
Once it was about Hillary, but now, of course, it's about Bill.
Notes Kuiper, "Hillary's terrible traits are out there for all to see." Certainly the illustrated "Yankees Fan," which contains over 500 fully verified quotes from more than 60 sources, puts not just Hillary's embrace of socialism but her vicious temper and contempt for other …
The Republican primary in Colorado will soon be upon us; and even before Iowa and New Hampshire, one thing should be eminently clear: there is only one candidate who throughout his career has been consistently Conservative and who will be able to lead a prosperous America into th …
If you were building a Republican presidential candidate from a kit, imagine what pieces you might use: an athletic build, ramrod posture, Reaganesque hair, a charismatic speaking style and a crisp dark suit.
Ron Paul's supporters makes polls irrelevant. The populace no longer fits into nice tidy little boxes that the MSM can manipulate. People are actually thinking for themselves now. Ron Paul will win Iowa and New Hampshire.
WASHINGTON — A former GOP political operative who ran an illegal election-day scheme to jam the phone lines of New Hampshire Democrats during the state's tight 2002 U.S.
Another story by McClatchy which shows the stain of corruption on the Republican Party keeps growing bigger and bigger.The Justice Department delayed prosecuting a key Republican official for jamming the phones of New Hampshire Democrats until after the 2004 election.An official …
On the morning of election day 2002, repeated hang-up calls assaulted six phone lines tied to the New Hampshire Democratic Party. Three Republican operatives, including consultant Allen Raymond, eventually ended up in jail for their involvement in the phone jamming scheme.
I believe Jo Freeman sums up Hillary's shot to run this country pretty much as, it's just not going to happen! The icing on top of all that is she is a big flip flopper and untrustworthy.
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.
Although Al Gore has shown no interest in making the 2008 presidential race, activists who nonetheless want the Nobel Prize winner elected president are pressing on.
Traveling with the candidate in New Hampshire, you see how he could be the GOP nominee.
If polls are accurate, Sen. Hillary Clinton's once-sure bid for the Democratic presidential nomination is now not so sure. Her wide lead vanished without warning in Iowa and New Hampshire — and maybe elsewhere as well.
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.
Mike Huckabee is attempting a tough political transition: from also-ran to novelty act to overnight leader, with all the scrutiny that brings.
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