2008 Presidential Election News

Former House Speaker New Gingrich (R-GA) said Sunday that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will likely fade into a crowd of other Republican governors in the years to come and won't become the leader of the Republican party.

Once campaign rivals, President-elect Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain met Monday to talk about how they can collaborate on issues facing the United States.

When will people learn that when you post something on the Internet, not just on MySpace or Facebook, but definitely there, you are opening yourself up for a whole world of hurt? Ah, yes, never.

A pair of Durham, North Carolina police officers are under investigation for racial slurs or other derogatory remarks made against President-elect Barack Obama made on their MySpace pages.

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama resigned his seat in the Senate on Sunday to focus on his transition to the White House, appointing new staff and thanking his home state of Illinois for launching his ...

Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev IANS MOSCOW: Reacting for the first time to criticism of an anti-US speech on the day Barack Obama was elected president, Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev said he "simply ...

Barack Obama gives campaign staffers extra cash, BlackBerrys, laptops.

Barack Obama ended his campaign so flush with cash he's telling staffers to keep the change - and then some. Long-suffering political footsoldiers who toiled tirelessly, at least since September, to put Obama in the White House recently learned they will be getting extra paychecks worth a month's salary, the Daily News has learned. And boy, are they grateful.

Every president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has held a weekly radio address. But let's face it, Barack Obama leveraged all sorts of technology during his presidential campaign, whether it be Twitter, text messages, the Internet, or YouTube. So, in these times when radio seems old school, the Obama White House will videotape the weekly address,and post it to YouTube, as well.

Nov 14 - A song based on a Christian prayer and aimed at uniting the world behind Barack Obama is creating waves on the Internet.

Reports from two different sources indicate that Hillary Clinton is being considered for the position of Secretary of State in the Obama administration.

A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him 'constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil.'

The Rev. Jay Scott Newman said in a letter distributed Sunday to parishioners at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville that they are putting their souls at risk if they take Holy Communion before doing penance for their vote.

Look, it's politics. Even if there's an affair in a marriage in a political environment, in general, the couple stays married. Look at Bill and Hillary Clinton. Look at Eliot and Silda Spitzer. Still together. And now, John and Cindy McCain?

Just hours after President Bush and President-elect Obama met in the Oval Office of the White House, details of their confidential conversation began leaking out to the press, igniting anger from the president, sources claim.

"Senator Obama would be wise to keep close counsel," a top Bush source warned.

Democratic aides say Speaker Nancy Pelosi intends to seek legislation to provide relief to the battered auto industry, and wants it done in a post-election session of Congress likely to convene in the next few ...

The U.S. government on Monday announced a revised bailout package for troubled insurer American International Group (AIG) that’s now valued at $150 billion

WASHINGTON - President-elect Obama's advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, a plan that would make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison but could require creation of a controversial new system of justice.

Businesses should expect more scrutiny of their books, moves to expand health insurance, an end to no-bid Pentagon contracting and a host of other changes when President-elect Barack Obama takes office.

Yesterday, President-elect Barack Obama gave his first press conference since being elected, discussing his plan to move forward on the economy and other issues. In a poll out today, Rasmussen Reports found that a majority of Americans liked the tone Obama set during the presser

Just a few weeks ago, at the height of the campaign, Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota told Chris Matthews of MSNBC that, when it came to Mr. Obama, “I’m very concerned that he may have anti-American views.”

But there she was on Wednesday, after narrowly escaping defeat because of those comments, saying she was “extremely grateful that we have an African-American who has won this year.” Ms. Bachmann, a Republican, called Mr. Obama’s victory, which included her state, “a tremendous signal we sent.”

Barack Obama held his first press conference as president-elect in Chicago today following a meeting with his vice president-elect Joe Biden and their top economic advisers.

One of the defining questions for the Obama presidency is: what dog should he get for his daughters. As he said at his press conference today, it's been made more difficult by his daughter Malia's allergy to dogs. He needs a hypoallergenic dog.