BY accusing Barack Obama of playing the race card, John McCain hopes to shuffle the deck in a White House campaign that is scarcely begun, much less settled.
In so doing, the Republican made at least two political calculations.
He risked at least (...)
JORDAN, Israel and Germany aren't normally known as swing states in a US presidential campaign. But Barack Obama is off to a fast start in his attempt to change that with an election-season tour designed to show him as a potential commander in (...)
CALL it campaign growing pains. Or bad luck.
Or a combination of the two. By any name, Sen. John McCain is hampered by missteps and self-generated controversy in the early days of the general election campaign for the White House.
Take his most (...)
APART from George McGovern, a plainspoken man who knows something about losing elections, not a single Democrat of national stature publicly urged Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday to end her campaign for the White House.
They didn't have (...)
TIME is running out on Hillary Rodham Clinton, the long-ago front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination who now trails Barack Obama in delegates, states won and popular votes.
Compounding Clinton's woes, Obama appears on track to finish (...)
