With four days to go until Tuesday’s presidential election, Democratic nominee Barack Obama is not slowing down. He campaigned in three battleground states Thursday. He began the day in Florida, went on to Virginia and finished with a late night rally at the University of Missouri.

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain knows that Ohio is critical to winning Tuesday’s presidential election. But with four days to go, McCain won’t have time to enjoy the fall foliage as he makes a two-day bus tour through the Buckeye State. Joe Wurzelbacher of Ohio, known as Joe the Plumber, made some appearances with McCain [...]

Sarah Palin is a staunch pro-lifer; Colorado voters may soon decide that life begins at conception. Author, journalist and academic Cynthia Gorney says the abortion wars are still going strong in this election cycle.

John McCain is spending a lot of the last campaign week in Pennsylvania. He says the Keystone State is his key to winning the election. Madeleine Brand talks to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette political reporter Dennis Roddy about whether his push is realistic.

I’m guessing you’re all like me, on pins and needles about how this whole Election thing is going to end up. After all, Election 2008 to this point has been, in a word, bugfuck nuts. So what kind of crazy chicanery are we all in store for in the next week to come? Fortunately for [...]

Every time you turn the television on these days you get more talking heads crunching numbers about the US Elections ? whispering urgently about who is going to win which states and why. I?m feeling a little left out, so I thought I would do my own

We remain the only country on the earth that refuses to develop our energy resources. Congress recently approved a very limited allowance for offshore drilling and the presumed incoming administration supported by majorities in both houses avows that these will be rescinded as soon as the elections are over. The “plan” is to continue to [...]

The Associated Press announced a content distribution deal Wednesday with Chicago wireless carrier U.S. Cellular, launching two mobile Web sites including one focusing on the upcoming election. The content distribution deal offers a gateway to both AP’s Mobile News Network, which provides international, national and local news, and AP Elections ‘08 coverage. The sites [...]

NEW YORK: The winner of Americas presidential election will inherit a perfect storm of problems, both economic and international. He will face the most difficult opening-day agenda of any president since ” and I say this in all seriousness ” the man who

James Smith, chief revenue officer at the Huffington Post, has reason to be optimistic. The site, self tagged “The Internet Newspaper,” is riding a surge in traffic and a commiserate surge in revenue. And it’s not just the Palin Factor or the election, from which just about every site has benefited. “Interestingly, over half the [...]