Md. Democrat gets boost from Sen. Obama
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Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, the Senate's lone African-American, praised Rep. Ben Cardin on Wednesday in a Maryland Senate race pitting a black Republican against a white Democrat.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama picked up the endorsement Saturday of North Dakota Sen. Kent Conrad, who said he would campaign for Obama in Iowa during the final weekend before the state's leadoff presidential caucuses.
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Incumbent Albert R. Wynn and his main challenger, lawyer Donna Edwards, are engaged in a sprint to the finish for tomorrow's hotly contested Democratic primary election in Maryland's 4th Congressional District.
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Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has won the endorsement of two fellow Democratic senators from the heartland Â Ben Nelson, a popular moderate in largely Republican Nebraska and Claire McCaskill from Missouri, historically a bellwether in presidential contests.
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On the heels of his victory in South Carolina, Senator Barack Obama is set to receive the endorsement of Senator Edward M. Kennedy on Monday.
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Sen.-elect Barack Obama is under no illusions that his superstar status in the Democratic Party will translate into political clout in a Republican-majority Congress.
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Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has won an endorsement from the Nevada chapter of the Service Employees International Union, boosting his prospects against rival Hillary Rodham Clinton in Nevada's upcoming Democratic caucuses.
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Democrat Donna Edwards, an attorney and longtime political activist, appeared little threat to seven-term Democratic Rep. Albert R. Wynn last spring when she initiated a late-starting challenge for the Sept.12 primary in MarylandÃ¢ÂÂs 4th Congressional District.
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Thousands of Washington-area residents descended on American University this morning for a glimpse of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, who was scheduled to appear at a campus rally to accept the endorsement of fellow U.S. senator and senior statesman Ted Kennedy.
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Husband's former aide backs Obama, a day after defeats in Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC
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Sen. Edward Kennedy, a Democratic icon and a leading liberal voice, endorsed Barack Obama on Monday for the party's presidential nomination and called the young lawmaker an inspirational uniter.
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Barack Obama has won the presidential endorsement of Sen. John Kerry, the Democrats' 2004 nominee who lost to George W. Bush.
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Barack Obama is being endorsed by fellow Sen. John Kerry, the Democrats' 2004 presidential nominee who lost to George W. Bush that year and gave up his own plans for a 2008 run a year ago.
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One of Barack Obama's closest friends and long-term advisers will be spending more time guiding the Democratic presidential candidate as he enters the final three months of the primary race still in second place.
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Sen. Barack Obama outraised Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton by $10 million in second-quarter contributions that can be spent on the Democratic presidential primary contest, aided by the contributions of 154,000 individual donors.
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U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher endorsed Barack Obama's Democratic presidential bid Monday in the run-up to next month's Virginia presidential primary.
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The Democratic candidate steps up his airwaves campaign in an early state.