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Obama gaffes have written McCain stump speech
At this point John McCain's standard campaign stump speech is almost entirely based on gaffes by Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Daily Show rips McCain, Palin as hypocrites
Last night's show was tough on GOP ticket, Obama.
Florida residents want to go back to normalcy
Florida residents want to hear from candidates on going back in time, before President George W. Bush was in office, and talk about big topics on the homefront.
Whoops! Michelle Obama gets crowd size wrong
Campaign yanks Web video where first lady hopeful overstates size of Miami rally.
McCain campaign events need a droopy-drawers rule
Several of the eight young men standing behind the stage in Goffstown, N.H, this morning with M-A-V-E-R-I-C-K spelled on their chests had a droopy drawers problem.
Biden blasts robo-calls
VP nominee and MoveOn urge action, plus a look at swing state ground game.
Bringing the surge back into the discussion
A third-party group is expanding its attacks on Barack Obama and the war on terror to Colorado and Ohio.
McCain's Hispanic strategy failing
A new poll of Hispanic voters finds Barack Obama is clobbering John McCain.
McCain supporters call early voters 'cheaters'
Video from the trail shows a heated scene across street from polls.
NYT's scoops on Cindy angers McCain camp
If the political mudslinging wasn't enough between the presidential candidates and their vice-president picks, the focus is now sticky on an accusation of media bias with The New York Times as the target.
Joe the Plumber for Congress?
Despite being arrears in taxes and potentially in violation of license laws for being a plumber — or maybe because of that — some folks say Joe the Plumber, real name Joe Wurzelbacher, is needed in Congress.
Would the GOP disenfranchise Joe the Plumber?
The Ohio Democratic Party says a Republican lawsuit to try to clean the voter rolls in Ohio could end up snaring Joe the Plumber.
Red state tour
On the road again to find out what's turning these red states purple.
'Joe the Plumber' is here to stay
John McCain wasted little time in further elevating "Joe the Plumber," taking the newest unlikely political star's case to voters in Pennsylvania.
Money sense at the debate
Debate-watching with a crowd at Kazi’s, a downstairs restaurant bar in Northwest Washington, D.C.