As Barack Obama trekked through the Philadelphia suburbs, Northern Virginia, and Greensboro, N.C., in recent days, his campaign was ramping up a massive parallel effort in big cities like Detroit, Cleveland, and Miami.

In the largely black precincts …

Conservative pundits are split over the decision by John McCain’s campaign to aggressively target Barack Obama’s association with 1960’s radical William Ayers with less than thirty days remaining before election day.

“McCain and his campaign now are acting …

ASHEVILLE, N.C.—For the third weekend in a row, Barack Obama campaigned in North Carolina as part of the most vigorous Democratic effort since at least 1992 to win this reliably Republican state.

At a surprise stop Saturday night …

It’s Mud Monday. For the presidential campaigns, the financial crisis as an all-consuming topic is yesterday’s news.

John McCain and Barack Obama are suddenly going for the jugular, whacking each other for shady relationships in the past and …

John McCain’s campaign launched a new television ad Monday calling Barack Obama “dishonorable" and "too risky."

The ad revisits Obama’s remark that troops in Afghanistan are “just air-raiding villages and killing civilians,” a line Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been repeating …

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Monday will launch a multimedia campaign to draw attention to the involvement of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the “Keating Five” savings-and-loan scandal of 1989-91, which blemished McCain’s public image and set him on his …

SEDONA, Ariz.— Just a month out from election day, neither Barack Obama nor John McCain has undertaken the sort of grinding public schedule that until now had been the standard for the homestretch of a presidential campaign — and the …

Less than a month before the election, attention this Sunday turned to the electoral map, where Democratic candidate Barack Obama has opened up a wide lead in the last two weeks.

On Fox News Sunday, former Bush adviser Karl …

After knocking John McCain as a deregulator of the banking system during the recent financial crisis, Barack Obama’s campaign hit the Arizona senator Sunday for wanting to do the same to the health insurance industry.

"Nothing would be more …

Virginia Republicans are warning that John McCain’s prospects for winning a state that has been in the GOP column in every presidential election since 1964 could be in jeopardy. With Barack Obama treating the Old Dominion like a battleground state …