· You may remember that, in August, Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain answered questions posed by KidsPost readers. The presidential candidates will answer kids' questions again as part of a television special called "Kids Pick the President" at 9 p.m. Sunday on Nickelodeon.
Sarah and Jim Brady and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence with its network of Million Mom March Chapters endorsed Senator Barack Obama for President and Senator Joseph Biden for Vice President today, and urged Americans to vote for them.
January 29, 2008 -- CHICAGO -- Today, supporters of Senator Obama's campaign are crossing the country to talk about Barack Obama's ability to bring Americans together...
February 12, 2008 -- USA: Barack Obama (pictured) is looking to overtake Hillary Clinton in the race for delegates in today's so-called Potomac primary election. The...
SPEAKER: SEN. BARACK OBAMA, D-ILL. [*] OBAMA: We meet today at a moment of great uncertainty for America. Yesterday, we saw another significant drop in the stock market as the anxiety about this financial crisis grew worse. Overnight, the same thing happened with markets around the world. And t...
Barack Obama announced a wide-ranging economic rescue plan in Toledo today that includes an additional $25 billion more to help automakers retool plants and jump-start production, give a tax credit to companies adding U.S. jobs, extending unemployment benefits and allowing penalty-free withdrawals from retirement and 401(k) accounts this year and next.
The employees over at Chronicle Books will hold a bake sale for presidential candidate Barack Obama (aptly titled Bakesale for Barack) over in SoMa this morning. For those of you with low blood-sugar level Democrats who are not at home celebrating Christopher Columbus "discovering" America, head over to South Park today between 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 to buy a sweet treat/raise funds for Obama's ...
Neither President Bush nor the two men vying to succeed him, John McCain and Barack Obama, have won the confidence of a majority of Americans to be able to "fix" the nation's economic crisis, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll.
Michelle Obama will appear at two events around the state today. She is campaigning on behalf of her husband, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
December 31, 2007 -- DES MOINES -- Locked in a three-way battle in Iowa, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama is defending an aide's criticism of a rival, parrying skepticism that...
June 20, 2008 -- The decision not to participate in the public financing system wasn't an easy one -- especially because I support a robust system of public financing...
February 20, 2008 -- To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Bret Caldwell, +1-202-345-2762, or Leigh Strope, +1-202-497-7766, both of International Brotherhood of Teamsters...
Sen. Hillary Clinton will hold a rally today in Horsham for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
May 1, 2008 -- If there's one thing that telecom analysts agree on, it's that fear is creating much of the current pain in telecom today rather than companies'...
September 17, 2008 -- WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The Republican National Committee (RNC) today launched a new friend update to its social networking Web site,...
While one poll released today gives Barack Obama a 10-point lead in the race for the White House, other key polls show John McCain is closing the gap between the two candidates. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll showed Obama with a 10 point...
AP PhotoI find the 2008 election unique, because I see no villain in this race. Both of these men offer something worthwhile. The Express-Times, in today's editorial, decided to throw its opinion page support behind Barack Obama.It didn't take long...
April 3, 2007 -- CHICAGO -- Today, Barack Obama made the following statement in response to President Bush's remarks during his press conference on Iraq.
May 26, 2008 -- Just four years ago, when Barack Obama was an obscure Illinois state senator running a long-shot campaign for the U.S. Senate, he quipped regarding...
February 20, 2008 -- In 2007, shortly after I became a candidate for president, I asked the Federal Election Commission to clear any regulatory obstacles to a publicly...