Candidates, parties shave corners in ads
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To judge from a recent wave of political advertising, politicians in America are hypocritical, rub shoulders with criminals, vote against American values and don't support U.S. troops.
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Viewers who felt like someone was telling them to vote for or against George W. Bush or John Kerry every time they turned on the TV last year weren't far off: Political parties and others spent nearly &#36;178 million more on such ads in 2004 than they did in the 2000 election.
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The campaigns and the outside groups supporting them are taking a confrontational advertising war into grim territory.
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Presidential campaigns are hoarding money for a coming advertising blitz &#151; mostly in Iowa and New Hampshire &#151; during the final three months of the year on airwaves already saturated with candidate commercials.
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The Democratic candidates are aggressively pursuing members of the group that could serve as tiebreakers at the partyâs convention.
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The energized voters that candidates see on the campaign trail
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Republicans and Democrats are calling on some heavy hitters to help attract voters as the presidential campaigns enter the homestretch before the November 2 election.
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The flavor and substance of the performances of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards reveal a basic thematic divide in their campaigns.
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Changing course, Democrats have decided to run television ads in Missouri and Colorado, states that earlier this week appeared to have fallen to second-tier status in the party's strategy to win the White House.
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Trying to break through this week&#39;s intense coverage of the Republican National Convention, Democrats set up shop just blocks from Madison Square Garden, launched a weeklong ad
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President Bush, Sen. John Kerry and their political parties are spending nearly &#36;40 million on TV ads in the final week of the presidential campaign as they adjust their strategies in a shrinking battleground.
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As President Bush and Sen. John Kerry hurtle into the final two days of the presidential race, the campaign has in some ways
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As the presidential campaign got underway a year ago, the candidates faced a volatile political environment dominated by the Iraq war, illegal immigration and terrorism. A year later, the campaigns are rewriting their scripts as it appears that the race may actually be shaped once more by the eco...
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From North Carolina to South Dakota, candidates vie to be of the people, not of Washington.
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Not long before the pivotal conference of Egypt&#39;s ruling National Democratic Party opened this week, a four-sided billboard appeared in one of Cairo&#39;s main squares.
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Given the frantic pace at which presidential and congressional campaigning has taken off in the earliest weeks of the 2007-08 cycle, it comes as no surprise that Democratic strategists are front-loading their  program as well.
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Most polls show a very close race among the top candidates in both parties, so the outcome hinges on which campaigns are best at turning out their supporters.