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 [...]

Democrat Barack Obama has used the latest poor figures on the US economy to attack his Republican rival, John McCain.

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 [...]

The presidential candidates’ experiences abroad have shaped their world views, and those views offer clues about how they would govern. Both Barack Obama and John McCain have expressed those views in memoirs. Newsweek editor Jon Meacham talks with Steve Inskeep in the second of two conversations about the candidates’ world views, finishing with McCain’s experiences [...]

In this article (click on this link, Ann Applebaum, “Why I Can’t Vote For John McCain”), Ann Applebaum, a formidable intellectual and cultural warrior in Russia (see her book, Gulag: A History), lauds McCain, but criticizes Palin and the anti-Intellectualism that pervades, in this case, the GOP: strangely, it comes from the Evangelical Wing, what [...]

Washington, October 29 (MIA) - U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is leading his Republican opponent John McCain by 53 percent to 34 percent among early voters, a new poll indicated Tuesday, Xinhua reports.The poll was conducted by the

John McCain’s home state has been considered a lock for him since he won the Republican presidential nomination. But a new poll says the race with Barack Obama in the state is now a statistical dead-heat. Could John McCain lose his home state?

Presidential hopefuls John McCain and Barack Obama have had memoirs published. Newsweek editor Jon Meacham talks with Steve Inskeep about how the two candidates’ experiences abroad have shaped their world views, and whether those views offer clues as to how they would govern. The first of two conversations begins with Obama’s childhood experience in Indonesia [...]

The longest presidential election campaign in U.S. history is in its final week, and Democrat Barack Obama continues to hold a lead in the polls over Republican John McCain.