2008 Presidential Election News

A timeline of U.S. Sen. Joe Biden's life and career: Nov. 20, 1942 - Born in Scranton, Pa., the first of four children.

Sen. Barack Obama has picked Delaware Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate, multiple Democratic sources tell CNN.

Sen. Barack Obama's choice for running mate will be announced to supporters in a text message Saturday morning, senior Obama campaign officials told CNN on Friday night, and a senior party official said it won't be Sen. Hillary Clinton.

MILLIONS OF working-class Americans are fat, sweaty and white. They are addicted to beer and junk food, and have never wanted to read a book, go to university or visit Europe. Can they see as their president a slender, good-looking fellow who wrote two well-reviewed books, graduated from Columbia University and Harvard law school and has just completed a triumphant visit to the Middle East and Europe?

Sen. John McCain said the U.S. should fast track construction of nuclear power plants. McCain argues that more nuclear power as well as more domestic oil drilling and development of new energy sources will help the U.S. reduce dependency on foreign oil.

White House hopeful Barack Obama said Friday a tentative US-Iraqi deal to get American troops home by 2011 exposed his rival John McCain's war plan as mere "bluster" and divorced from reality.

The GOP is holding the renewable energy industry hostage to its demand that Congress not reduce the existing subsidies to oil companies, hedge fund managers and foreign corporations. It is a bizarre linkage, but so far the Republicans are getting away with it.

The 45th anniversary of the iconic leader's most memorable speech coincides with the day when another African-American leader, Barack Obama, makes a historic speech of his own — accepting the Democratic Party's nomination for president of the United States.

Senator Lieberman is pro-choice. He was on the Democratic ticket in 2000. He represents a blue state. Joe Lieberman would be an ideal selection, because the overriding issues facing our country today are Islamic terrorism.

Bill Clinton's reluctance to endorse Barack Obama warmly as the next president is causing jitters in the Obama camp ahead of the Democratic convention next week, where he will formally become the party's White House nominee.

Democrat Barack Obama pledged yesterday to create millions of union jobs in alternative energy and to end tax breaks for companies that move jobs overseas, using tough new populist language to persuade voters that he, not Republican rival John McCain, is best positioned to lift the limping US economy.

Days before the Democratic Convention begins, Barack Obama has a slim 42 percent to 39 percent edge over John McCain in the race for the White House, according to a FOX News poll released Thursday.

Is a 72-year-old capable of taking the reins of government? The fact he was a prisoner of war and was tortured is being touted as one of the reasons he is qualified to be president. This and his age should cause people to stop and reconsider whether the opposite might be true.

Ralph Nader says he thinks Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton would be Democrat Barack Obama's best choice for a vice presidential running mate.

Bob Barr’s campaign—and the possibility of a revitalized national Libertarian Party—will likely have more of an immediate electoral impact than Paul’s did. The Republican Party, after all, is teeming with antibodies that have been able to fight off the diminishing libertarian virus within. Unless lightning struck, the heavens opened, and he stumbled upon the Ark of the Covenant, Ron Paul was never going to win the GOP nomination.

On the same day John McCain bragged about how proud he is of the lobbyists running his campaign, McCain is accepting campaign cash raised by one of the central figures in the culture of corruption surrounding a convicted lobbyist.

John McCain may have created his own housing crisis. Hours after a report that the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting didn't know how many homes he and his multimillionaire wife own, Democratic rival Barack Obama launched a national TV ad and a series of campaign stops aimed at portraying McCain as wealthy and out of touch.

John McCain, who claims that Barack Obama is out of touch with the common man, has so many properties he apparently can't keep them straight. In an interview with Politico, he was unable to give a number.

As Barack Obama prepares to accept the Democratic nomination this week, it is clear that the economic policies of the next president are going to be hugely important. Ever since Wall Street bankers were called back from their vacations last summer to deal with the convulsions in the mortgage market, the economy has been lurching from one crisis to the next. The International Monetary Fund has described the situation as “the largest financial shock since the Great Depression.” The details are too technical for most of us to understand. (They’re too technical for many bankers to understand, which is part of the problem.) But the root cause is simple enough. In some fundamental ways, the American economy has stopped working.

Days after he cracked that being rich in the U.S. meant earning at least $5 million a year, Republican presidential candidate John McCain acknowledged that he wasn't sure how many houses he and his wealthy wife ...