2008 Presidential Election News

Watch Bill Clinton's speech from the Democratic Convention. Scroll down for text of his remarks and more video.

Barack Obama, a 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, became the first African-American ever nominated for president by a major political party after delegates to the Democratic National Convention chose him as their standard-bearer Wednesday.

Republicans are putting John McCain's presidential prospects above their wish to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Members of the GOP platform committee voted Wednesday to stick with an energy plank that doesn't mention drilling in the refuge, saying it would only highlight an area where they differ with the Arizona senator. McCain opposes drilling in that protected land, and some committee members said they would rather bring him around on the issue once he's in the White House than widen their disagreement now.

The ad is misleading because it states that Obama said Iran is "tiny" and "doesn't pose a serious threat" without noting that Obama was comparing the threat Iran poses today to the Soviet Union, the nuclear-armed adversary of the U.S. during the Cold War.

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The "racist ramblings" of a man in Colorado posed no threat to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama but reminded many Americans of past attempts on the lives of their leaders.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton answered skeptics Tuesday night by issuing a ringing call for her supporters to rally behind Sen. Barack Obama, saying Democrats cannot afford to stay home in November and let another Republican administration ruin the economy.

“Barack Obama is my candidate,” Clinton said in the final speech of the second night of the convention that will nominate Obama for president.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich, erstwhile presidential candidate and strident opponent of the Bush administration, gave the most spirited speech of the session Tuesday condemning the war, the economy and the Republicans

He was called C-2. Before becoming the presumptive Democratic candidate for vice president, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. was given that simple code name for the ultra-secretive search being conducted by the highest echelon of advisers to Senator Barack Obama.

The arrests in this suspected "assassination plot" were reported on Tuesday. While it's unclear if the plot was actually credible, all four suspects are being held on either drug or weapons charges. Pictured above are Nathan Johnson (L) and Tharin Gartrell. Shawn Robert Adolph and Johnson's girlfriend, Natasha Gromek are the other two suspects.

Michelle Obama mixed the personal and the political Monday night in painting a picture of her husband, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, as a working-class advocate for the American dream who “will finally bring the change that we need.”

"The work begins anew, the hope rises again and the dream lives on," Kennedy said in a strong voice, reprising the final line of a memorable 1980 speech that brought a different convention to its feet.

On the first day of the Democratic National Convention, presumptive nominee Sen. Barack Obama spent the day in Iowa, the site of his initial victory of the primary season against the Democratic contenders and then-front runner Sen. Hillary Clinton. But today, he met there with a fairly unenthusiastic crowd of undecided independents and Republican voters.

Hillary Clinton got a hero's welcome at the New York state delegation breakfast and used the attention to try and get her supporters to back Barack Obama .

If Ted Kennedy appears in Denver, he will likely recapture the magic of his 1980 DNC speech.

Jennifer Lopez is headed to town. So are George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey, Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, hoping to unite the Democratic Party and cement her future in it, will gather her hard-won primary delegates Wednesday at a reception where she is expected to formally release them ...

The former governor of Massachusetts is among the frontrunners for the Republican vice-presidential nomination, which Mr McCain is likely to announce next week. But the choice of Mr Romney may suddenly have become more risky if the Democrats plan to make wealth a campaign issue.

Politico.com, which is where this conversation started - when McCain was asked how many homes he owns and he couldn't say - reports that initially it found seven when it made its own count. But now it has found a third condominium owned by the McCains in Phoenix, so that makes eight.

When Joe Biden underwent brain surgery for a life-threatening aneurysm in 1988, he asked doctors whether he could tuck his rosary beads under his pillow. The six-term Democratic senator from Delaware also has offered to shove his rosary down the throat of the next Republican who tells him he isn't religious.

Delegates from Michigan and Florida will have full voting rights at the national convention this week, despite violating party rules by holding early primaries.