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/ 14 September 2008
The presidential campaign got nastier on Sunday as a newspaper revealed that Sarah Palin used her position as governor to give top jobs to friends.
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/ 13 September 2008
Barack Obama on Friday ripped into 72-year-old John McCain as an out-of-touch economic illiterate who had slept through the internet revolution.
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/ 13 September 2008
An America that disdains Obama for his global support risks turning current anti-Bush feeling into something far worse.
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/ 11 September 2008
Republican vice-presidential pick Sarah Palin has given party nominee John McCain a jolt in several critical election battlegrounds.
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/ 11 September 2008
A spat over gender politics erupted on the US presidential campaign on Wednesday with John McCain accusing Democrat Barack Obama of a sexist attack.
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/ 10 September 2008
George Bush punctured hopes of a big reduction in US troops in Iraq on Tuesday when he announced the withdrawal of 8 000 troops by February.
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/ 10 September 2008
Barack Obama has launched an attack on his Republican rivals’ reformist credentials, likening their promise of change to putting "lipstick on a pig".
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/ 9 September 2008
Barack Obama ripped into John McCain and Sarah Palin as never before on Monday, accusing his Republican White House foes of ”shameless” dishonesty.
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/ 7 September 2008
Oprah Winfrey, America’s favourite daytime TV star, has refused to have Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as a guest on her talk show
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/ 6 September 2008
Furore surrounding John McCain’s running mate is a return to the old American politics of red state versus
blue state, writes Jonathan Freedland.
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/ 4 September 2008
United States Republican presidential nominee John McCain has a new attack dog. Her name is Sarah Palin, and she bites hard.
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/ 4 September 2008
As the focus last week turned to Barack Obama’s choice of running mate his other crucial partner continues to show that the Democratic nominee isn’t t
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/ 1 September 2008
It is clear that speech-making abilities in the Obama family are not restricted to Barack Obama.
To a large degree the success of Obama’s presidential run so far has been built on his skills as a speechmaker, writes Ed Pilkington.
The Republican war room in Denver looked harmless. It was on a busy road in a neighbourhood of modest motels and petrol stations.
Bill Clinton did brilliantly what other Democrats had failed to do — make the case for President Barack Obama, writes Jonathan Freedland.
She hunts. She fishes. She was voted Miss Congeniality after winning a beauty pageant in her small town in Alaska.
With startling chutzpah, Republicans are again casting the opponent as out of touch. Democrats shouldn’t play the game.
Barack Obama launched a sharp assault on Republican presidential rival John McCain on Thursday with a promise to reverse the economic failures.
The presidential nomination acceptance speech at Denver’s Mile High stadium was undoubtedly the most important of Barack Obama’s life.
Olympic sensation Pamela Jelimo and footballer Dennis Oliech are two of Kenya’s hottest celebrities –so where are the T-shirts?
Hillary Clinton delivered a ringing call for Democratic Party unity on Tuesday, promising to work for Barack Obama.
Hillary Clinton will grab the spotlight at the Democratic convention on Tuesday in a speech designed to mend a lingering party rift.
Grass roots organisation brings conservative states within Democrats’ grasp, writes Suzanne Goldenberg.
United States Democrats on Monday worked to unite the party for its convention to nominate presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Democrats began descending on Denver on Sunday for the four days of pageantry that will crown Barack Obama as the party’s presidential nominee.
Standing next to his stall of glassware in downtown Denver, Jim Butcher was delighted that Barack Obama was holding his convention in his city,
We do have the policies, reports Kevin Davie, but there doesn’t seem to be an implementation plan.
United States Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has chosen his Senate colleague, Joseph Biden, as his vice-presidential running mate.
Barack Obama prolonged the suspense on his vice-presidential pick on Friday, saying he has chosen someone — but not revealing the name.
Barack Obama, who is generally regarded as a gifted orator, would do well to find time to unwind before he delivers the speech of his lifetime.
Barack Obama savaged his Republican rival, John McCain, on Wednesday for running a dishonourable campaign.