It's the year of the flip-flop in U.S. politics
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In what has become the year of the flip-flop, U.S. presidential candidates have been accusing each other of switching positions on policy issues as often as they change their clothes.
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Despite generally less interest in politics during the summer months and for midterm elections, Americans were as likely to look up political news and information online in August as they did during the peak of the 2004 presidential campaign.
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After years of political dominance, Republican voters are concerned about their party and their candidates, according to a new Times/CBS News Poll.
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Positions on the country's direction at home and abroad are starting to take shape in the blur of motion, money and ambition of the 2008 presidential contest.
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The month of November in a US presidential-election year is not supposed to be particularly eventful, but this year may be an exception, in the light of the gathering storm over
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The sudden reversal of her political fortunes has put Hillary's campaign in a position few would have predicted
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Though polls show many Americans are unhappy with the direction of the nation, they seem likely in the Nov. 2 elections to keep Republicans in control of the US Congress.
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In a year the Democrats should win the White House in a walk, we've got a perfect storm that could put a Republican there. With the Republican nominee all but decided, the Democrats are split down the middle across racial, gender and age lines. So we have three parties, not two, and the Republicans are spouting the same old fear about war and security while they advocate raping the Constitution and spending us into oblivion. Four more years of spitting and swearing while our economy goes from second rate to third world. How will this get resolved? Oy?
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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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Some statistics on American life as Election Day nears, compared with four years earlier.
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Last year was great, but next year remains up in the air.
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BERLIN, Dec 20 (IPS) - For the European Union, 2007 was a year rich in  events, but poor on results. Next year promises to be as  turbulent as this one, and probably as unremarkable in its  outcome.
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To judge from a recent wave of political advertising, politicians in America are hypocritical, rub shoulders with criminals, vote against American values and don't support U.S. troops.
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When Republicans took control of Congress in 1994, it was widely hailed as a revolution. Now, 10 years later, it is looking more and more like a coup dâetat that only changed the leadership while leaving everything else unchanged.
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Back in power, the Democrats are discovering that role reversal in the House isn't all it's cracked up to be
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US trade policy is far from perfect, of course. But election year rhetoric, particularly that on &quot;outsourcing&quot; of jobs, may have given some Americans a distorted view of reality.
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Inundated with politics long before the 2008 presidential election, U.S. voters are in danger of suffering wearying bouts of the uniquely American affliction of "campaign fatigue" in coming months.