Obama narrows delegate gap
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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee swept all 36 delegates in the Kansas GOP caucuses Saturday. Sen. Barack Obama picked up Democratic delegates in three contests, narrowing the delegate gap with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Polls show Obama holding a slight lead in an electorate polarized along racial lines.
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Barack Obama won the Georgia primary Tuesday night, the leading edge of a coast-to-coast struggle with Hillary Rodham Clinton for delegates in the grueling Democratic presidential campaign. Arizona Sen. John McCain challenged his remaining rivals for control of the Republican race.
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Bloomberg - Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama, who came in first in the Iowa caucuses, has erased Hillary Clinton's lead in New Hampshire, and the two are tied for support among likely voters in the Jan. 8 Democratic presidential primary, according to a CNN poll.
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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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Tuesdayâs primary results did not match the fervor that had been signaled by Barack Obamaâs dramatic march of rallies leading up to the vote.
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Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama each won at least eight delegates in New Hampshire's Democratic primary, with six delegates still to be allocated, an AP analysis of primary results showed.
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The latest polls show Hillary Clinton's lead is shrinking, and Obama has pulled ahead among African-Americans.
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Sen. John McCain moved closer to clinching the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday, winning delegates in Wisconsin and competing for more in the state of Washington. Democrats were competing for delegates in Wisconsin and Hawaii.
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U.S. Democratic presidential  candidate Barack Obama slipped away for a private meeting with  former rival John Edwards on Sunday to seek his endorsement as  the Illinois senator and Hillary Clinton battle for Wisconsin.
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Bloomberg - Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Senator Barack Obama inched closer to a presidential run with his first visit to New Hampshire, home of the inaugural primary election in the campaign for the White House.
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Democratic Sen. Barack Obama has edged ahead of rival Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire less than a month before the state's nominating primary in the 2008 race for the White House, a new poll showed on Friday.
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Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, each claiming a pair of early victories, now leave the concentrated campaigning of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina for an unwieldy and costly 10-day dash through 22 states that hold presidential primaries or caucuses Feb. 5.
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Illinois Sen. Barack Obama easily defeated New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the three Democratic presidential voting events held in three states Saturday -- giving him the first bragging rights after the near-draw between the candidates among the 22 states that participated in last week's "Super Tuesday" spree of Democratic primaries and caucuses.
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The crowded field for the Republican nomination for the 2008 U.S. presidential election shrank by one on Saturday when former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore announced he was withdrawing.
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Barack Obama had hoped to be above racial tensions, but his campaign has been pulled into them from early on.
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Sen. Barack Obama won the Virginia Democratic primary Tuesday night and reached out for victories in next-door Maryland and the District of Columbia, determined to erode or even erase Hillary Rodham Clinton's delegate lead in the party's presidential race.