As Holiday Break Nears, Obama and Edwards Spar Over Outside Groups
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MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa, Dec. 23 -- In a final day of campaigning before suspending their campaigns for Christmas, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) encouraged voters here Sunday to view the holiday as a time to become "instruments of peace and change," while Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) accused former...
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Barack Obama's rivals in the Democratic presidential race contend he sometimes voted "present" on tough issues rather than take a firm stand.
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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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Democrat Barack Obama Saturday scoffed at suggestions by President Clinton that the Illinois senator is not ready to be president, and that Obama is running strong in Iowa in part because his home state and Iowa share a border.
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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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Sen. Barack Obama chastised fellow Democrats on Wednesday for failing to &quot;acknowledge the power of faith in the lives of the American people,&quot; and said the party must compete for the support of evangelicals and other churchgoing Americans.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is bemoaning the growing divide between rich and poor as he returns to the signature theme of "Two Americas" from his unsuccessful 2004 White House bid.
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President George Bush and his Democratic Party challenger John Kerry are taking a break from the campaign trail while they prepare for the first nationally televised Presidential debate on Thursday.
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Democratic U.S. presidential rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on Monday toned down their rhetoric over race, seeking to smooth over a clash that was dividing their party, which for decades has prided itself on standing up for minority rights.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards postponed campaign events in Alabama and North Dakota to make a major policy address on poverty Wednesday in New Orleans, where he launched his presidential bid 13 months ago.
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US Senator Barack Obama visits a key political testing ground amid fresh speculation about political ambitions.
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Voters shouldn't pick a presidential candidate on the basis of either "change rhetoric" or a yearning for the past, John Edwards says, seeking to draw clearer lines between himself and rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Democratic Party vice presidential candidate John Edwards has sharpened criticism of the Bush Administration&#39;s conduct of the war in Iraq.
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MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina  - Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama engaged in a rancorous crossfire on Monday as their U.S. presidential campaign took an ugly turn on the Martin Luther King holiday.
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Lawmakers are people, too. They give, and they receive. And amid the marathon partisan (and intraparty) griping over everything from the farm bill to the mammoth $555 billion spending bill, many of them managed to squeeze in some holiday shopping before splitting town for the Christmas recess.
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Santa Claus may be coming to town, but lots of people will be leaving or otherwise hard to reach in Iowa and New Hampshire. That makes for plenty of nervous pollsters preparing to take late soundings on the presidential race during the frenzied holiday period.
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John Edwards came out of the gate and said, âYou&#39;re not being straight about Iraq.â He wanted this debate to be about Iraq.