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.GOP Sharpens Attacks on Obama- June 30, 2008 CLEVELAND -- Sen. John McCain's allies have seized on a new and aggressive line of attack against Sen. Barack Obama, casting the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee as an opportunistic and self-obsessed politician who will do and say anything to get elected.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/322919197/AR... In Flag City USA, False Obama Rumors Are Flying- June 30, 2008 FINDLAY, Ohio -- On his corner of College Street, Jim Peterman stares at the four American flags planted in his front lawn and rubs his forehead. Peterman, 74, is a retired worker at Cooper Tire, a father of two, an Air Force veteran and a self-described patriot. He took one trip to Washington in...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/322919198/AR... A New Political Geography- June 29, 2008 When Sen. Barack Obama chose the Nissan Pavilion in the outer suburbs of Northern Virginia to kick off his general-election campaign, one of the 10,000 supporters there was David Bruzas, who recently moved to the fastest-growing part of a state that is moving rapidly away from its Republican past.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/322323371/AR... Obama Plans Meetings With Leaders in Mideast, Europe- June 29, 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama announced plans yesterday for a midsummer trip that will take him to the Middle East and Europe for firsthand observation and consultations with foreign leaders while providing him an opportunity to bolster his national security credentials for the fall...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/322282064/AR... Candidates Court Latino Leaders- June 29, 2008 Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) yesterday accused Republican Sen. John McCain of retreating from a comprehensive overhaul of immigration laws that the senator from Arizona had championed in Congress, contending that his rival for the White House "walked away" from his own legislation to win the GOP...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/322282063/AR... A Win by McCain Could Push a Split Court to Right- June 29, 2008 For much of its term, the Supreme Court muted last year's noisy dissents, warmed to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.'s vision of narrow, incremental decisions and continued a slow but hardly steady move to the right.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/322317049/AR... New Campaign for Democrats: Unity- June 28, 2008 UNITY, N.H., June 27 -- Sen. Barack Obama wanted a symbolic beginning for his alliance with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, and he achieved it Friday when the former rivals traveled here together for an afternoon rally designed to unite Democrats for the fall campaign.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/321550498/AR... In Campaign, One Man's Pragmatism Is Another's Flip-Flopping- June 28, 2008 Last February, in the heat of the Democratic primary campaign, Sen. Barack Obama proclaimed himself "proud to stand" with Sens. Christopher J. Dodd, Russell Feingold and "a grass-roots movement of Americans" in opposition to President Bush's demand to offer telecommunications companies legal amnesty...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/321726442/AR... Obama, Clinton Join Together in Show of Unity- June 27, 2008 Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton showered each other with praise yesterday in their first joint appearance since the end of the Democratic presidential primary season at an event in which the senator from New York urged hundreds of her top donors to get behind the party's presumptive...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/321011477/AR... Top McCain Adviser Has Found Success Mixing Money, Politics- June 26, 2008 As Sen. John McCain's top presidential campaign adviser, Richard H. "Rick" Davis has worked for almost a year without compensation, telling reporters that the sacrifice shows his dedication to the cash-strapped Arizona Republican. He also took a protracted leave from his Washington lobbying firm to...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/320163134/AR... |