American Politics

For all the rhetoric from John McCain, Sarah Palin, and the right-wing scream machine that Barack Obama was a socialist who would drag America further to the left, his first few weeks as President-Elect reveal something entirely different: WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama won the...  

The election may be over but some punchlines still get a laugh. David Letterman, who got great mileage out of his feud with longtime guest Republican Sen. John McCain during McCain’s unsuccessful campaign for president, is still getting big yucks out of his punchlines about defeated GOP Veep...  

A most delicious irony would occur if the electors installed Governor Palin as President and Joe Biden as her VP, leaving John McCain out in the cold where ...  

From: Bazinet, Kenneth Pool Report 3 Nov. 17, 2008 Your pool swept into the conference room in the Presidential Transition Office on the 38th floor of the Kluczynski Federal Building in downtown Chicago at 11:15 a.m. for the top of the pow wow between President-elect Barack Obama and Sen...  

My Chicago Sun-Times colleague Abdon Pallasch quotes President-elect Obama saying the Chicago reporters are tougher than the national press, as ABC-channel 7 political reporter Andy Shaw gets a question in the brief photo op. By Abdon M. Pallasch Chicago Sun-Times Political Reporter...  

By Abdon M. Pallasch CHICAGO--Just 13 days after the election and a month after their last face-to-face debate, President-elect Barack Obama and Sen. ...  

Just 13 days after the election and a month after their last face-to-face debate, President-elect Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain sat down to talk Monday at Obama's Transition headquarters in Chicago. Off to McCain’s right was his close ally ...  

Democrat Barack Obama leads Republican John McCain in five of eight key battleground states as Americans prepare to vote in the White House race, according to a series of Reuters/Zogby polls released on ...  

Senate Democrats indicated they'll let Sen. Joe Lieberman, Ind-Conn., keep his committee chairmanship despite his support of Republican John McCain.  

After months of controversy, it looks like U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman will remain in the Democratic caucus - despite publicly supporting Republican John McCain for president.  

The 2008 election might go down as the year state political campaigns blossomed into big-money undertakings, with everyone from presidential candidates to statehouse hopefuls spending like never before.  

Published: Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 14, 2008 at 7:51 p.m. To The Editor: As senior citizens, we have voted in many presidential elections over the years.  

In a piece in South Jersey's Courier Post titled Election brings redemption for Biden as a national candidate , NICOLE GAUDIANO wrote about: the embarrassing end to his 1988 presidential campaign when he forgot ...  

Senator John McCain campaigning Thursday in Atlanta on behalf of Senator Saxby Chambliss.  

President-elect Barack Obama will meet with his former rival, Republican Sen. John McCain, on Monday to talk about ways they can work together, an Obama spokeswoman said on Friday.