Candidates fine-tune campaign pitches
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After a year of position papers and policy speeches, handshakes in the summer heat and winter snow, advertising that floods mailboxes and TV screens, and too many bites of pork on a stick at too many county fairs, it's time.
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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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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 playbooks as it appears that the race may actually be shaped by the economy.
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The presidential campaigns have mounted energetic efforts to influence the press, and public, perceptions of Thursday's debate.
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The race to raise funds, hire top staff, and generate media buzz for the 2008 presidential election is already well under way.
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How do the Democratic and Republican hopefuls size up the key issues of the campaign?
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Choosing a theme song for a political campaign may sound fun but can produce plenty of sour notes.
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With 171 pledged delegates at stake on Tuesday, the candidates were making last-minute pitches.
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Attention on 'top tier' candidates in this week's debates prompts calls for a more evenhanded format.
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Some candidates take âfull disclosureâ too seriously.
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A concentrated burst of advertising is putting the candidatesâ strategies out in the open and is highlighting the diverging financial fortunes of the two parties.
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Sure, the presidential candidates have their talking points on taxes, their policies on poverty, their white papers on war. But look beyond those top-tier issues and voters can find the eclectic ideas that reflect candidates' particular passions, their attention to the arcane, sometimes their outsized expectations.
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It's Labor Day, the traditional kickoff of the race for the White House. In the old days, this is when campaigning actually began. But that's been history for quite some time, and in this hectic, fast-paced 2008 campaign season, it's been full speed ahead since the beginning of the year.
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Call it the presidential candidates' striptease. White House hopefuls aren't willing to just declare they're running, but rather are flirting with the idea as long as possible. First, they show some leg with an exploratory committee, then plenty of skin with a pronouncement on a faux news program or a late-night show and finally they bare all with a ruffles-and-flourish formal announcement.
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There have been some big moves recently in the prediction markets that are tracking the presidential campaign.
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TITLES: Clinton ad: "Ideas." Obama ad: "Anything Radio."
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Candidates are touting their political independence, blaming incumbents for high gas prices and warning moderate voters of a possible liberal takeover of Congress in a current wave of advertising that is revealing some themes for the final weeks before Election Day.