In 2008 race, many presidential 'firsts' are possible
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Candidates' race, gender, age, and religion are among the factors that could shape the election.
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For several of the 2008 presidential candidates, cancer has had a very immediate impact.
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If Hillary Clinton ends up running against John McCain for the presidency in 2008, the two might vaguely remember competing against each other once before.
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As Americans prepared to pick a president, the ultra-tight race shaped up as a battle on three fronts: the campaign trail, the organizational trenches and eventually the courtroom.
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Can Clinton stop the Obama tidal wave? Can Romney rebound? A record throng turns out in the nation's first primary
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SPRINGFIELD, Illinois  - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama opens his 2008 White House run on Saturday in a setting rife with symbolism and historic links to Abraham Lincoln's fight to end slavery.
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The 2008 presidential race began so early that voters have been on a first-name basis for months with Hillary and Barack, Rudy, Mitt and the other contenders. Yet people seem no closer to choosing from among them.
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Is it a new dawn in US politics, or just another gimmick in an endless and overcrowded 2008 White House race?
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Campaigning begins early in New Hampshire. For most politics watchers, that means following the first maneuverings of both Democrats and Republicans who plan or hope to run for president in 2008 Ã¢ÂÂ and who already are paying visits to the state which, in January of that year, will hold the Ã¢ÂÂfirst in the nationÃ¢ÂÂ primary contest.
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Money helped winnow the presidential field. It hasn't determined who each party's nominee will be.
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With 19 candidates and counting, the 2008 presidential race is tough to sort outâeven for the political pros. A user's guide to the ultimate tournament.
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For many people, the question this year isn't just which presidential candidate to vote for, it's when.
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Upstart challengers and fierce early combat are giving Hillary Clinton and John McCain, the once-anointed establishment frontrunners, a rough ride in the 2008 White House race.
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The war in Iraq is shaping the opening stages of the contest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, just as it did in the 2004 campaign.
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The day that dropped the curtain on the 2004 presidential race raised one for the 2008 contest, with Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards jockeying for advantage among Democrats and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist the first on the stage for Republicans.
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The 2008 White House race is bringing American global warming politics in from the cold, as candidates churn out complex plans on an increasingly key campaign issue.
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The Christian Science Monitor - The most elusive commodity so far in the 2008 presidential sweepstakes is momentum. In both parties, the opening contests have been won by different candidates, creating lots of "comeback kids" but little ability to claim the mantle of front-runner.