Presidential race turns a negative page
Friday, November 30, 2007
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Mitt Romney is the target, abortion is the issue, and the $100,000 ad buy will change the tone of the Iowa and New Hampshire presidential primaries.
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Obama touts his time away from capital
Monday, November 26, 2007
LITTLETON, N.H. (AP) — The nation needs a president who is more a stranger than an insider when it comes to the capital's way of doing business, Barack Obama said Monday, portraying his relatively modest experience in Washington as an asset.
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Thompson proposes tax choice
Monday, November 26, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson proposed an income tax plan Sunday that would allow Americans to choose a simplified system with only two rates: 10 percent and 25 percent.
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Giuliani wants US to promote democracy
Monday, November 26, 2007
BEDFORD, N.H. (AP) — Republican Rudy Giuliani said Monday the reputation of the United States has suffered globally not so much because of arrogant actions but for lack of salesmanship about benefits of democracy.
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Clinton: I have best chance vs. GOP
Monday, November 26, 2007
PERRY, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton maintained Sunday that she's the best candidate to win against Republicans, saying she has more experience battling the GOP than any other candidate in the Democratic field.
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Obama unveils $18 billion education plan
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Presidential contender Barack Obama on Tuesday called for a $18 billion education plan that he said would fix mistakes his chief Democratic rivals made when they approved President Bush's ''No Child Left Behind'' effort.
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Obama: Foreign family experience helps
Monday, November 19, 2007
CLARION, Iowa (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama said Monday his childhood experience in Asia and his family in Kenya give him a greater foreign policy understanding than politicians who merely take junkets to other countries.
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Clinton says economy needs experience
Monday, November 19, 2007
KNOXVILLE, Iowa (AP) — The economy needs help and fast, Hillary Rodham Clinton declared Monday, claiming the experience for the job and saying the nation can't afford to break in a newcomer.
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Bush promises to rebuild justice dept.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush welcomed Michael Mukasey back into government Wednesday and promised to help the new attorney general rebuild the top leadership of the beleaguered Justice Department.
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Putin looks to keep influence in Russia
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
KRASNOYARSK, Russia (AP) — President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that a convincing victory for the party he is leading in Dec. 2 parliamentary elections would give him the ''moral right'' to maintain strong influence in Russia after he steps down next year.
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Edwards outlines plan for veterans with PTSD
Monday, November 12, 2007
PLYMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Presidential contender John Edwards introduced a $400 million plan Monday to help veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, including those recently returned from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Clinton: go slow on Social Security
Monday, November 12, 2007
WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton marked Veterans Day by calling for new assistance programs, but said she would move more carefully than her rivals on dealing with looming shortfalls facing the Social Security system.
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Giuliani tags Dems, touts his experience
Friday, November 09, 2007
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani mocked his Democratic rivals as impractical, billing himself as a realist on foreign policy with experience at the negotiating table.
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Obama focuses on pensions, retirement
Thursday, November 08, 2007
FAIRFIELD, Iowa (AP) — On the stump and in new TV ads, Democrat Barack Obama is focusing on baby boomers' retirement worries and targeting companies that ''leave workers high and dry.''
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Youths say: What's Democrat, Republican?
Thursday, November 08, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) — Visions of Republican elephants and Democratic donkeys are out. Today's young adults don't think red or blue either when they describe the two major political parties.
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Christian right splinters on GOP field
Thursday, November 08, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) — The splintering of prominent Christian conservatives over the Republican presidential contenders reflects a schism — between the dogma of God, guns and gays and the desire to beat Hillary Clinton.
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Obama plan focuses on credit, colleges
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
BETTENDORF, Iowa (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama offered a package of proposals Wednesday aimed at halting growing income inequity, including an overhaul of bankruptcy laws and tax breaks to make college more affordable for the middle class.
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Edwards proposes consumer product reform
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
BEDFORD, N.H. (AP) — Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards on Wednesday said he would call for the resignation Nancy Nord, the acting head of the nation's Consumer Product Safety Commission, because the commission has failed to protect the public from dangerous products.
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Sarkozy touts US-French friendship
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) — French President Nicolas Sarkozy hailed warmer relations with the United States — and emphasized his country's appreciation for American sacrifices in World War II — in a message readied for Congress Wednesday.
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Brownback to endorse McCain
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Sam Brownback, a Kansas conservative and favorite of evangelical Christians, will endorse his former Republican presidential rival John McCain, an advisory from McCain's campaign said Wednesday.
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Pat Robertson Backs Giuliani
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pat Robertson, a prominent Christian leader and social conservative, endorsed Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday.
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Lawmakers question US aid to Pakistan
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress and the Bush administration are taking a second look at U.S. aid to Pakistan in the wake of President Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule and a crackdown on his political opponents.
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Kennedy Turns Against Mukasey
Thursday, November 01, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush, seeking Thursday to salvage the embattled nomination of Michael Mukasey as attorney general, defended the former judge's refusal to say whether he considers waterboarding as illegal torture. But the nomination suffered another setback in the Senate.
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