Edwards drops Presidential run
Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, who focused his bid for the Democratic nomination on helping the middle class, will withdraw from the presidential race in a speech later on…
Voting FOR someone instead of AGAINST someone
This thread is about voting for someone instead of Against someone. Please do not turn it into a Hillary versus Obama thread. And please keep it polite. …
The Clinton cabal
Hillary Rodham Clinton is in trouble. Her husband is out of control, Obama is gaining momentum and her once-inevitable run for the White House is stuck in a sea of…
McCain becomes a frontrunner
Sen. John McCain won a breakthrough triumph in the Florida primary Tuesday night, seizing the upper hand in the Republican presidential race ahead of next week's coast-to-coast contests and lining…
Rudy exits, stage left
In the end, 9/11 wasn't enough. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, once the Republican presidential front-runner thanks to his status as "America's Mayor," suffered a debilitating defeat in Tuesday's…
Romney now stands alone
John McCain won Florida. Rudy Giuliani headed for the exits. And Mike Huckabee stayed put. None of those things are good for Mitt Romney, McCain's chief rival, who spent a small…
What Bush was thinking
At the end of his CNN interview before the State of the Union address, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee was asked a no-trick question: "What is the state of the…
More debt as a stimulus?
Even as President Bush cautioned against loading up the stimulus bill, the Senate was loading it up. In a rare display of cooperation, indicating that in the eighth year of…
Bush plays smallball
The president's State of the Union address is the ceremonial start of the year in the national capital, and this time it marked the symbolic start of President Bush's final…
