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.McCain-Obama So Far: Positively Negative- June 26, 2008 A campaign between Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain once offered enormous possibilities for something new. Instead, the two presumptive nominees have opened their campaigns for the White House with what looks and sounds like a repeat of the kind of politics both have promised to leave behind.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/320145819/AR... On Obama's Coattails, an Uninvited Rider- June 26, 2008 Just a month ago, Republican strategists were trying to closely link Democratic House candidates to Sen. Barack Obama, convinced that in certain parts of the country Obama would drag candidates from his own party down to defeat.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/320180600/AR... Fear and Loathing- June 25, 2008 Was Charlie Black right Did he simply commit the political sin of saying something that is unspeakably truehttp://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/319719450/AR... McCain Has Plan to Make Government More Green- June 25, 2008 Sen. John McCain pledged yesterday that he would make the federal government more environmentally friendly, while Sen. Barack Obama mocked his rival as crafting energy policies that merely pander to voters, in the latest skirmish over which presidential candidate is better prepared to tackle the...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/319326176/AR... McCain Adviser May Have Struck a Nerve- June 25, 2008 Sen. Barack Obama and his surrogates continued to criticize Charles R. Black Jr., a top adviser to Sen. John McCain, on Tuesday for saying a terrorist attack before the November election would help the presumptive Republican nominee. But behind their protests lay a question that has dogged Democrats...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/319326177/AR... McCain Proposes $300 Million Prize for Electric-Car Advance- June 24, 2008 Sen. John McCain yesterday proposed a $300 million prize, paid by the government, for the inventor of a better battery to power electric or hybrid vehicles, with the goal of spurring innovation to get Americans off their gasoline habit.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/318505287/AR... Clinton to Join Obama As He Courts Female Vote- June 24, 2008 ALBUQUERQUE, June 23 -- As Hillary Rodham Clinton prepared to return to life in the Senate and announced that she will campaign with Sen. Barack Obama in New Hampshire on Friday, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee began reaching out to female voters who had formed the backbone of...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/318519618/AR... Terror Strike Would Help McCain, Top Adviser Says- June 24, 2008 A top adviser to Sen. John McCain said that a terrorist attack in the United States would be a political benefit to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, a comment that was immediately disputed by the candidate and denounced by his Democratic rival.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/318513508/AR... Obama Targets Speculation On Energy- June 23, 2008 Sen. Barack Obama rolled out a proposal yesterday to curb speculation in energy markets, which his advisers said would help stabilize soaring gasoline prices.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/317747012/AR... Obama Moves To Reintroduce Himself to Voters- June 23, 2008 In the opening weeks of the general-election campaign, Sen. Barack Obama has moved aggressively to shape his campaign and offered a clear road map for the kind of candidate he is likely to become in the months ahead: an ambitious gamer of the electoral map, a ruthless fundraiser and a scrupulous...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/politics/elections/index_xml/~3/317769291/AR... |