President Barack Obama announced Wednesday his intention to nominate Florida's disaster management chief, Craig Fugate, to head the much-criticized Federal Emergency Management Agency. ...more

March 5, 2009

President John F. Kennedy asked Americans to ask not what their country could do for them, but what they could do for their country. These days, our two presidential nominees won't dare ask for personal sacrifice. Both are convinced they will lose an election as a result. We're not so sure. ...more

October 22, 2008

The Oct. 2 exchange between vice presidential nominees Sarah Palin and Joe Biden might outdraw McCain and Obama. ...more

September 27, 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

Exultant over having their own potentially history-making candidate, Republicans at their national convention have seemed intent on matching vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, rather than John McCain, against their opponent Barack Obama. ...more

September 5, 2008

She has been known, at times, as "Sarah Barracuda." It began with her ferocity on the high school basketball court. As co-captain her senior year, Sarah Palin was a point guard who made the final free throw that won the Wasilla Warriors their first state championship. ...more

August 30, 2008

and the quadrennial whine. ...more

August 24, 2008

and the quadrennial whine. ...more

August 24, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama has stood before a lectern adorned with a faux presidential seal. ...more

August 17, 2008

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by two Tampa Democratic Party activists challenging the national party's ban on the Florida Democratic convention delegation. ...more

May 29, 2008