The 2008 presidential election was the most expensive on record, with candidates, parties, and outside groups dropping $5.3 billion.

During the final days of the 2008 presidential race, Bill Sammon [then the network's Washington deputy managing editor] used his position as a top Fox News editor to engage in a campaign to link then-Sen.

In a pre-taped interview set to air on Monday night on Fox News, Sarah Palin tells network host Sean Hannity that she has no intention of sitting down for a one-on-one again with CBS anchor Katie Couric after the now-infamous exchange the pair shared during the 2008 presidential  …

ST. LOUIS, MO—The United States Attorney's Office announced today that a St. Louis man was sentenced to two years of probation on charges of voting in two different states during the 2008 general election. Tarrell Campbell, 34, St.

This article is several pages long. If you prefer to view it on one page, click here.It has been a very strange season in the political career of John McCain.

Now that we've had a week to read the election post-mortems and grab interviews with the staff in the trenches, a picture is emerging of just how the Obama campaign went about winning the election. Not why -- the economy, Bush, etc. -- but how.

The juiciest bits of the magazine's 50,000-word opus. Newsweek has delivered its 50,000-word campaign opus, which appears in the November 17 issue of the magazine. The Daily Beast presents the juiciest nuggets, with links to the relevant chapters.

Some electoral records (shattered)

Amid all the fanfare, I would like to take a look at some records that have held true in the past and find out if they still hold true... A. BELLWETHERS

How the Neocons and Bush Supporters Killed the McCain Campaign

The Republican Party is officially dead. Of course, in America, evil never really dies. The GOP will return, albeit in a different form.

In bellwether Perry County, the Ku Klux Klan once thrived. Now, Republican truckers and coal miners are backing Barack Obama.

With less than a week left before the most important Presidential election in at least a generation, the McCain campaign has decided that, having failed to convince most Americans that Barack Obama is actually a closet Muslim, its best hope for winning undecided voters is to accu …

Three Democratic operatives offer advice for how the candidate should spend the final week.

We can go to the moon, split atoms to power submarines, squeeze profits from a 99 cent hamburger and watch football highlights on cell phones. But the most successful democracy in human history has yet to figure out how to conduct a proper election.

In a two-day news environment that was supposed to be a big opportunity for John McCain -- Barack Obama was off the trail with his ailing grandmother -- McCain instead faced critical coverage of the shocking sums Palin spent for clothes, hair and makeup, as well as his campaign's …

Former chief of staff General Colin Powell, appearing on "Meet the Press" Sunday morning, did not mince his words. Powell came off as thoughtful and serious and he made his views absolutely clear.

Exclusion Of Cell-Phone-Only Households Means Pollsters Are Probably Undercounting Obama's Support

The McCain campaign's more aggressive tone is prompting pushback from the public: Registered voters by a broad margin now believe John McCain is more focused on attacking his opponent than on addressing the issues in the 2008 presidential election.

As the gloves come off in the presidential race, John McCain seems ever more willing to dispense with past claims to personal honor.

If these acts of electoral sabotage go ahead on November 4 and tilt the election to McCain, Obama needs to learn from Al Gore's mistake. As the recent HBO film Recount shows, Gore was consensual and statesmanlike - in the middle of a knife fight.

The Gallup Daily Poll today reported Barack Obama now holds a commanding 11 point lead over John McCain, 52% - 41% among registered voters. More information at the link.

The last week and-a-half has brought plenty of discouraging news from around the nation for John McCain's Presidential campaign and the latest polling from New Hampshire isn't going to change that pattern. Barack Obama now enjoys a ten point lead in the Granite State.

Here is the video from today's speech, in slow motion, making it painfully clear that something is physically wrong with John McCain.

John McCain has been known to brag that he "likes to gamble." Nobody would question that now, after his string of flashy maneuvers to maintain interest in his campaign as the country continues to sour on GOP rule.

The Wal-Mart Woman is the soccer mom of this election cycle, but aside from gender the two figures have little in common.

This is an interesting site. It averages all the major polls, and then uses a graph for each state that is updated daily. This particular link leads to a single page that shows the results for all fifty states, by state. The homepage gives even more information.