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/ 10 October 2008
Democrat Barack Obama has opened a five-point lead over Republican rival John McCain in the White House race, and expanded his support among women.
Though domestic concerns and the country’s future in Iraq will most likely decide the 2008 US election, something greater rests on the outcome.
After a lacklustre debate, John McCain now has less than four weeks to turn the race for the White House around.
Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama battled over the best way to help struggling US workers on Tuesday in a sometimes tense debate.
The US presidential debate slipped deeper into the mud on Monday as the Democrats joined the Republicans in dredging up damaging events.
Republicans are urging John McCain to adopt more aggressive tactics against Barack Obama amid fears that the White House is slipping away from them.
On the eve of the second presidential debate, Democrat Barack Obama on Monday challenged Republican John McCain’s integrity.
Barack Obama counterattacked on Sunday by saying John McCain was more interested in a smear campaign than fixing the United States economy.
Democrat campaign targets the swing state of New Mexico. Dan Glaister reports
Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin accused Democratic candidate Barack Obama on Saturday of ”palling around with terrorists”.
Emergency rescue plan to go back to the House of Representatives.
Republican Sarah Palin and Democrat Joe Biden clashed on the economy and Iraq during a lively but polite debate on Thursday.
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/ 30 September 2008
US presidential candidate Barack Obama urged lawmakers on Tuesday to return to the negotiating table to work on a financial rescue deal.
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/ 30 September 2008
Barack Obama is opening a lead over John McCain after polls showed the public awarding Friday night’s debate to the Democratic candidate.
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/ 29 September 2008
When Raymond Wejroch took to the ice for the first time, ankles buckling in his skates and head bobbing in his helmet, it felt a bit like destiny.
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/ 29 September 2008
There is common sense; and there is good sense. Common sense represents the received wisdom of years and the widespread opinion of the day.
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/ 29 September 2008
The financial crisis ended the Palin circus but the Democratic presidential candidate must buck up
his ideas to exploit McCain’s weak point.
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/ 28 September 2008
White House hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain accused each other of playing politics with the financial crisis on Saturday.
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/ 27 September 2008
Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain battled over spending, taxes and the Iraq War in their first debate on Friday.
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/ 26 September 2008
Republican presidential candidate John McCain will take part in a debate with Democrat Barack Obama on Friday, his campaign said.
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/ 26 September 2008
The presidential debate, still scheduled for Friday, provides the first opportunity for voters to see John McCain and Barack Obama together.
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/ 25 September 2008
Just 40 days from the US general election, the financial crisis has transformed the White House race into a daring duel of political brinkmanship.
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/ 24 September 2008
Democrat Barack Obama has opened a nine-point lead over Republican John McCain in the US presidential race amid turmoil in the financial system.
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/ 23 September 2008
Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama said on Monday the US will overcome the financial crisis that has sent shockwaves through Wall Street.
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/ 23 September 2008
The Republicans argue that people who have lost their homes may no longer be resident at the address listed on voter records.
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/ 22 September 2008
Historically, there’s been a last-minute swing away from black candidates by white voters. Will Barack change things?
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/ 19 September 2008
White House hopeful Barack Obama reversed a Republican surge and bounded into the lead on Thursday in national polls swayed by the financial crisis.
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/ 18 September 2008
Larry Elliott takes a look at the bail-out which is a nationalisation designed to avert the worst market collapse since the 1930s.
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/ 18 September 2008
Democrat Barack Obama ridiculed his White House rival John McCain on Wednesday as a lifelong member of the "old boys’ network".
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/ 16 September 2008
White House candidates Barack Obama and John McCain promised on Monday to move quickly to reform Wall Street.
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/ 15 September 2008
The young governor from the remote state engaged in her own brand of shuttle diplomacy in the summer of 2007, even posing with some of her troops.
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/ 15 September 2008
Sarah Palin’s road from mayor of a small Alaskan town to John McCain’s running mate is littered with casualties, writes Ed Pilkington.