washingtonpost.com - ElectionsComplete coverage of the 2006 midterm elections, congressional campaigns and governors races. Political news and analysis from The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com.Germany Denies Being Pressured on Obama- July 12, 2008 BERLIN, July 11 -- The German government strongly denied Friday that it had been pressured by the Bush administration to discourage Sen. Barack Obama from giving an address in front of the landmark Brandenburg Gate during his upcoming European tour.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/333184912/AR... McCain Manager Predicts an Even-Money Race- July 11, 2008 Sen. John McCain raised just more than $22 million during the month of June, and his campaign manager said yesterday he expects the Republican presidential candidate to stay on nearly equal financial footing with Democratic Sen. Barack Obama through the November election.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/332265623/AR... Gramm Remark Adds to McCain's Difficulty Addressing the Economy- July 11, 2008 BELLEVILLE, Mich., July 10 -- Sen. John McCain ventured to an auto-parts supplier in this hard-hit Detroit suburb to express sympathy for those affected by Michigan's economic malaise and to talk up his ideas for creating jobs in the region.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/332279231/AR... Donors Asked To Give for Two- July 11, 2008 The fundraising machine Sen. Barack Obama is relying on to overwhelm Sen. John McCain this fall has shown signs of wear in recent weeks, as Internet contributions have slowed and efforts to recruit top donors to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign have been beset by lingering tensions.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/332265620/AR... Obama Brings Economic Message to N.Va.- July 11, 2008 Sen. Barack Obama said yesterday at a town hall meeting in Fairfax County that if elected president, he would bolster the economy by helping working mothers. It was his second visit to the area since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee and occurred on a day when his likely Republican foe ...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/332279232/AR... FEC Is Back to Full Strength- July 11, 2008 Attention, presidential candidates: The referees are back on the field.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/332265622/AR... Jackson Incident Revives Some Blacks' Concerns About Obama- July 11, 2008 The larger point of Jesse L. Jackson's criticism of Barack Obama -- if not the crude way he expressed it -- touched a nerve among some African American political activists who have been unhappy about the senator 's pointed critiques of absentee fathers and other problems in the black community.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/332265621/AR... Obama's Ideology Proving Difficult to Pinpoint- July 10, 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama put himself on the opposite side of his party's leadership in the Senate yesterday by reversing course to support a compromise intelligence surveillance bill. His vote was the most dramatic in a series of moves toward the middle that have focused new...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/331346871/AR... Plane Glitch Grounds Obama in St. Louis- July 8, 2008 CHARLOTTE, July 7 -- In a strikingly literal detour from his message of the day, Sen. Barack Obama found himself stuck in St. Louis on Monday, phoning in remarks to an audience here after his campaign plane was forced to land following a mechanical glitch midair.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/329388479/AR... McCain Says He Would Balance Budget by 2013- July 8, 2008 Sen. John McCain pledged yesterday that he would balance the federal budget by 2013, the end of what would be his first term in office, returning to a promise he had strayed from as he sought to emphasize his concern about the plight of the U.S. economy.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/329369761/AR... |