2008 Presidential Election News

Nader believes he is receiving little mainstream press coverage because many journalists are Democrats, who blame him (and the Green Party) for George W. Bush ’s victory and, by extension, the war in Iraq.

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The Sierra Club said Thursday it will endorse Democrat Barack Obama for president, a decision it said was made easier by Republican John McCain's support this week of repealing a moratorium on offshore drilling and expanding nuclear power.

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It's evident that John McCain wants to differentiate himself from President Bush. After all, why align yourself with someone with as low an approval rating as Bush. On the other hand, they don't agree on that much anyway, since, as Stephen Colbert indicated on Thursday night, McCain and Bush only agree on:

education, immigration, Iraq, abortion, Supreme Court judges, Social Security, tax breaks for the wealthy, wiretapping, trade, health care, the Middle East, same-sex marriage and Medicare.

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"This is a big deal, a big deal," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., told reporters today in eastern Iowa.

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Until 2000, it hadn’t happened in more than 100 years, but plugged-in observers from both parties see a distinct possibility of Barack Obama winning the popular vote but losing the Electoral College — and with it the presidency — to John McCain.

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Barack Obama says the public financing of presidential elections is a broken system.

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Independent analyses of McCain's and Obama's tax plans show Obama would cut taxes for ordinary people more than McCain would.

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Despite the lack of enthusiasm for his candidacy among some Christian conservative activists, Sen. John McCain so far is performing well among rank and file evangelical voters.

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Drilling for oil off the US coast has the support of John McCain and President Bush, but not Barack Obama.

Despite a plea to Congress by Bush today, the Illinois Democrat rejected lifting the drilling moratorium that has been backed by presidents of both parties for nearly two decades.

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If John McCain loses in November, his wife Cindy may catch some of the blame after apparently cheating in a high stakes presidential cookie bake-off.

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