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There was a moment on Tuesday night when the Republican Convention looked like it just might slide right off the rails. The President had been banished from his own party. The running mate was caught in a media frenzy. And a Democrat was extolling the Republican nominee for a series...
But that didn't happen much. For the first time in 40 years, an incumbent President wasn't featured at his own party's convention. Bush was beamed in antiseptically from a seemingly empty White House, a lonely guy in quarantine, for a nine-minute speech. Senator Joseph Lieberman, who...
This year Armstrong has tried to make cancer an election issue. He got Senator John McCain to attend the Livestrong Cancer Summit earlier this year. McCain, a skin-cancer survivor, committed to increasing spending but not to a specific amount. Senator Barack Obama has committed to doubling the budget for...
McCain understands that if he wins Michigan, it could put him over the top. His first campaign stop after the Republican National Convention is tomorrow in Macomb County, home of the white working-class voters who became Reagan Democrats in the 1980s. But McCain's decision not to pick Mitt...
As Democrats and Barack Obama's campaign scrambled to attack Sarah Palin's well-received acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., on Wednesday night, they latched on early and hard to the fact that it was penned by former Bush speechwriter Matthew Scully. But the...