As a top adviser in Sen. John McCain's campaign tells the story, it was bad enough that Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska unwittingly scheduled, and then took, a prank telephone call from a Canadian comedian posing as the president of France. Far worse, she failed to inform her ticketmate. ...more

November 6, 2008

It is probably a sign that things are hardly going gangbusters for your presidential campaign when your police escort is larger than the crowd of supporters who show up to cheer you on. ...more

November 1, 2008

The Obama and McCain campaigns have agreed to an unusual, free-flowing format for the three televised presidential debates, which begin Friday, but the McCain camp fought for and won a much more structured approach for the questioning at the vice presidential debate, advisers to both campaigns said Saturday. ...more

September 21, 2008

At last she gives the interview. We get to see the biggest celebrity politician in the country talk to Charles Gibson tonight. ...more

September 11, 2008

Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain ripped into each other on Thursday over how many houses, fireplaces and even wine cellars they own, using allusions to net worth to deride each other while portraying themselves as able helmsmen for a faltering economy. ...more

August 22, 2008

Call Barack Obama a flip-flopper, an inexperienced senator or even an empty phenomena. Examine his voting record, his speeches and his interviews, and draw your own conclusions. But dipping into his past and painting an outrageous bio of him as a closet Muslim masquerading as a Christian, an unpatriotic American and a radical black with a long drug use - after extrapolating bits of information here and there - is stooping really low. ...more

August 15, 2008

Imagine a President McCain or a President Obama receiving the following top-secret briefing from his national security adviser: "Iran has successfully developed a nuclear warhead and may have already mated it with a medium-range Shahab-3 missile targeted at Israel. A preemptive strike could trigger a nuclear exchange. What do we do, Mr. President?" ...more

July 6, 2008

Mario Diaz is going from political reporter to political operative. ...more

June 19, 2008

After devoting two years and more than $35 million of his own money trying to win his party's nomination for the presidency, Mitt Romney and his advisers face the possibility that his effort could end with the nominating contests Tuesday. ...more

February 2, 2008