From the White House to Texas, elected officials expressed their support for the families of those killed and wounded in the Fort Hood attack. Here is a sample of their reaction to the tragedy. President Barack Obama: "My immediate thoughts...
A critical piece on former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in the current issue of Vanity Fair says Austin campaign media consultant Mark McKinnon played an as-yet-unreported role in late September debate prep of the Alaska governor/hockey mom. Writer...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is in Dallas Sunday to help raise money for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. She will be featured at a fund-raiser hosted by Dallas lawyer and Democratic Party donor Lisa Blue. Pelosi continues the parade...
This just in from the White House: President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden (fresh from his tour of Austin and Houston) will bask in the glow of the newest Democratic senator, Arlen Specter. Or is it the other way...
With Vice President Joe Biden en route to Austin and Houston tomorrow, the Texas Republicans Party is having a little fun. They've cooked up a "foot in mouth" contest that lets folks vote for their favorite Biden gaffe -- and...
Vice President Joe Biden heads to Texas next Tuesday, mostly to help shake the money tree, his office just announced. He'll be in Austin first, visiting the National Domestic Violence Hotline Center and appearing at a lunch to raise money...
Our man in Tarrant County, Jeff Mosier, reports: Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley got a little voice time Thursday with Vice President Joe Biden. Whitley and a half dozen mayors from across the country were on a 40-minute conference call...
In spy novels, it's Langley. Commuters along the Virginia side of the Potomac River pass signs for the George Bush Center for Intelligence. Congress named it after Texas' own a decade ago. He's the only man to have served...
It is hard to describe the extent to which the ball honoring President Obama differs from the one in the same venue four years ago for President Bush. The Texans filling the cavernous downtown DC convention center were every bit...
President-elect Barack Obama has announced that he'll give up the Senate seat he won just over four years ago effective Sunday, just before the Senate returns for a week-long lame duck session to discuss a new stimulus package and ways...
CHICAGO, 1 a.m. - It's been two hours since Barack Obama claimed victory at Grant Park. Some 240,000 people have left for home. The Obamas were not among them. Unknown to reporters and even to much of their campaign...
Plenty of states on the map remain to be colored in, but we're already ready to declare our Winners and Losers for 2008: Take a look and give us your own lists: WINNERS Democrats: The party has its most extensive...
John McCain, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin and Joe Biden made a mad dash in critical swing states Monday. And their supporters were out in full force at their various rallies. Check out some images from the day before the election....
Joe Biden was interviewed last week by Barbara West of WFTV-TV (Channel 9) in Orlando, Fla. Among the questions: "Aren't you embarrassed by the blatant attempts to register phony voters by ACORN, an organization that Barack Obama has been tied...
So there I was, innocently doing my job. Hadn't traveled with Sen. Joe Biden before. He had a rally in Charleston, W.Va., this morning and flew to Greensboro, N.C. to drive north into Virginia for two events - a...
With Barack Obama off the stump, visiting his gravely ill grandmother in Hawaii, it fell to runningmate Joe Biden to deliver the attack of the day. He's in Charleston, W.Va., kissing babies, and denouncing GOP nominee John McCain for...
CNN says this statement by Joe Biden is misleading: "George Bush is now backing the plan that Barack Obama suggested, which is to set a timeline for withdrawal from Iraq and turn over responsibility to the Iraqis." CNN said the...
Democratical presidential candidate Joe Biden blasted John McCain over the weekend for voting against raising the minimum wage 19 times. CNN.com finds the claim misleading, partly because McCain also voted at least five times to raise it. McCain, responding to...
--> Must be Monday. The market is in the tank, with the Dow back into four-digit territory. The candidates are slinging mud and watching the calendar. Four weeks and one day to go. Obama's side is calling McCain "erratic" and...
Sarah Palin has accused Barack Obama over the weekend of "palling around" with terrorists. Mr. Obama has had an association over the years with former radical William Ayers. In February, Obama strategist David Axelrod told the Politico Web site: "Bill...
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