The decision by John McCain’s campaign to yank field staff out of Michigan could pull the carpet from under the state’s two vulnerable House Republicans and leave them in serious political jeopardy, statewide GOP operatives said.

The move …

Since the mid-1980s, there’s been almost no attention paid to John McCain’s long-ago association with a controversial group implicated in a secretive plot to supply arms to Nicaraguan militia groups during the Iran-Contra affair.

But now, with the Republican …

Journalists by instinct tend to hedge their bets, so most don’t say in public what they really think. But our conversations with colleagues make clear what many think about the great race between Barack Obama and John McCain: This election …

Less than a week before the 1989 election for Virginia governor, two newspaper polls showed L. Douglas Wilder, a black Democrat, comfortably ahead of his GOP opponent by between 9 and 11 points. But when the ballots were counted, it …

Never mind polls. Pennsylvania state Sen. Lia M. Boscola does not need numbers to understand the meaning of the voices she hears while knocking on doors in her Lehigh Valley district.

“I’m hearing, ‘Oh you know, he’s just not …

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 …