Republican John McCain on Monday sharply criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama for not having been to Iraq since 2006, and said they should visit the war zone together. ...more

May 27, 2008

Do you think there will be more pandering, teacher's pet sucking-up going on this weekend at the McCain Ponderosa than in the Miss America interview segment, when the contestants profess to wanting to save the world, harp seals and lost puppies? ...more

May 24, 2008

Republican John McCain, speaking to a raucous crowd on Cuba's independence day, hammered Democrat Barack Obama for saying he would meet with President Raul Castro and called Obama a "tool of organized labor" for opposing a Latin American trade deal. ...more

May 21, 2008

A former Paxson Communications president said Saturday that he never met with John McCain about the Arizona senator writing letters to the Federal Communications Commission regarding the regulatory delay of a Pittsburgh TV station sale. ...more

February 24, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama said Saturday that the Republican presidential nominee in waiting, Sen. John McCain, has lobbyists as top aides and "many of them have been running their business on the campaign bus while they've been helping him." ...more

February 24, 2008

WASHINGTON -- A New York Times story on a female lobbyist's ties eight years ago to John McCain has an important Tampa connection: She worked then and now for the firm of Hector Alcalde, a prominent Tampa-connected political figure. ...more

February 21, 2008

John McCain picked up former President Bush's support on Monday, a critical blessing by a pillar of the Republican establishment whose members aren't completely sold on the party's next standard-bearer. ...more

February 19, 2008

When it mattered, Charlie Crist endorsed John McCain and arguably helped the senator win Florida and thus gain stature and momentum for Super Tuesday. ...more

February 18, 2008

Sen. John McCain, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, picked up a total of 50 GOP national convention delegates from Michigan and Louisiana on Saturday. ...more

February 17, 2008

U.S. Rep. Ron Klein, D-Boca Raton, has asked Gov. Charlie Crist to convince Crist's new political big buddy, Sen. John McCain, the likely 2008 Republican presidential nominee, to drop his opposition to creating a national catastrophe fund to pay for damages from natural disasters such as hurricanes. ...more

February 16, 2008