Editor's Note: The following exchange is adapted from a public conversation among Paul Rahe (Hillsdale College), James Ceaser (University of Virginia), and Thomas West (University of Dallas) that took place at The Heritage Foundation on April 16, 2009, ...
professor who specializes in presidential transitions. Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., left, huddles Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. in June. The economy and world events have Obama serving as essentially a dual-president, even though he hasn't been inaugurated ...
House Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer said today that Congress could come back next month to deal with the national economic crisis, even as he conceded that action this week on an auto industry bailout looks unlikely. At a question-and-answer session ...
Sarah Palin isn't the only running mate causing problems for the top of the ticket. John McCain's relentless attacks on Joe Biden's remark about President-elect Barack Obama and a potential international crisis have forced the Democrats to air a new ...
Newly elected presidents often need a guide, a sherpa to ease them into the loftiest office in the world. George W. Bush, elected with no national experience, leaned heavily on Dick Cheney, a master of the capital's ways. John McCain, a seasoned ...
Any day now, Barack Obama will become the first candidate to rake in more than half a billion dollars. Money matters in elections, as John McCain was painfully reminded when he tried to watch pro football on TV last weekend. "Every other ad was an ...
I write this to all who have a 'McCain08' or an 'RNC' address in the hopes that in a place here and there might at this last moment someone who sees what I see. I have carried around to voters in several states, John McCain's naval Flight Jacket he ...
Every so often, luck and circumstance give birth to an accidental congressman or senator, a politician who lands in Washington mainly by being in the right place at the right time. Once in a very long while, those accidents come in droves. That's ...
Midway through the fall campaign, the landscape of the presidential election is tilting even more in Barack Obama's direction. A variety of national polls show Obama with a significant lead that may have begun to stabilize. He held a seven percentage ...
John McCain's fresh momentum is changing the contours of the presidential contest and making a close finish more likely than ever. With the race a virtual dead heat in national polling, the presidency could, once again, be riding on the voters of a ...
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