News Shows Have Different Visions Of Reality On MSNBC, Sen. Barack Obama's surge in the polls was so strong he was competitive in McCain's home state, Arizona. The everyman hero of McCain's campaign, "Joe the Plumber," failed to make an expected appearance at a morning rally in Defiance, Ohio, and the senator's efforts to highlight Obama's association with a professor tied to the PLO were amounting to nothing. ...more

November 2, 2008

Barack Obama and John McCain brought the battle over who is better prepared to change Washington to a pair of states that will be critical to the November election, and they sought to win over voters eager to turn the page on eight years of the Bush administration. ...more

September 7, 2008

Mitt Romney returned to Tampa on Wednesday, stressing his business resume to gain the upper hand on Sen. John McCain and other GOP presidential foes as the slumping economy may be fast surpassing national security as the top issue. ...more

January 24, 2008

Some 4,000 Republican Party activists started getting fired up Saturday for the 2008 presidential election, with their four top presidential contenders there to spur them on, at the state party's convention Saturday. ...more

October 21, 2007