Candidate Brings A Spicy Background To Campaign
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By Ellen Gedalius, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Feb. 10--TAMPA -- From working for the city to marketing for DuPont to joining the carnival circuit to opening a popular Italian restaurant, Rick Barcena has struggled at times to find just the right career path.
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Excitement is stirring in the presidential campaign over a politician who's been talked about in the same breath as John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.
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Maverick Tory promises to be 'frank and candid', as campaign gets off to chaotic start.
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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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With the 2008 campaign just months old, the G.O.P. candidate has already made some memorable misstatements
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One leading candidate has been debilitated by what he said was an attempt to poison him.
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With the US presidential election less than two months away, the Republicans have adopted an aggressive new campaigning tactic that not only seems to be working, but has an element of fun to it as well.
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With about three weeks to go until the US presidential election, the two major party candidates are on the attack. The tone is becoming more acrimonious with each passing day.
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The White House campaign has brought a new act to Vegas. Barack Obama has stepped up his campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton, and he's trying to use humor to bring her down before this weekend's Democratic presidential caucus.
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Whether it's Bill or Hillary, the Clinton name is hot copy in political advertising these days.
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Donnie Fowler has spent years as a campaign nomad feverishly working behind the scenes as a Democratic operative outside South Carolina, but recently he became the candidate.
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The erstwhile campaign wallflower has become a campaign player.
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The presidential campaign trail is looking a bit like Hollywood Boulevard. Or a rock 'n' roll stage.
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The Democratic candidate steps up his airwaves campaign in an early state.
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Corporate responsibility is a focus for the candidate.
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The Democratic candidate offers up four new principles, and with a thin veil, addresses the outsider vs. insider messages of her rivals.
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He builds his campaign in the state on lessons from his run in 2000.