Americans are sharply divided by race ahead of the first presidential election in which a black candidate will represent a major party.
Barack Obama on Monday pledged to increase United States troops in Afghanistan by a third if he becomes president, sending 10 000 reinforcements.
It was an image meant to raise hackles: a cartoon on the cover of the New Yorker showing Barack and Michelle Obama — dressed as a militant.
Barack Obama’s campaign decried on Monday a satirical cartoon on the cover of the New Yorker magazine.
Barack Obama is overwhelmingly Britain’s choice to be the next US president, five times more popular than his Republican rival, John McCain.
Speculation is running wild that either, or even both, US presidential candidates will pick a woman as running mate.
The United States Republican presidential candidate, John McCain, is attracting millions more dollars in funding than expected.
The image is indelible: Jesse Jackson, once the most influential African-American leader in the US, angrily muttering about Barack Obama.
Barack Obama will stand before 75 000 fans to accept the Democratic White House nomination in a spectacular finale to his party’s convention.
The US presidential candidates will duel over the economy this week, with Republican John McCain touting proposals he says will stimulate job growth.
John McCain, accorded hero status because of his years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, has hit back against a challenge to his security credentials.
The tradition of politicians kissing babies along the campaign trail has gone virtual.
Stevie Wonder talks about Barack Obama, social issues and today’s music.
It was, for a Democratic Party anxious to project an image of a happy family before the presidential election, an irresistible conjunction of symbols.
Attack by evangelical leader framed as wholesale rejection of Barack Obama’s views on faith. Suzanne Goldenberg reports.
US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Wednesday his top choice for running mate would be someone who would offer sound advice.
Bob Dylan. Yo-Yo Ma. Sheryl Crow. Jay-Z. These aren’t musical acts in a summer concert series: They’re artists featured on Barack Obama’s
iPod.
As Obama woos the churchgoers McCain needs, in Colorado Springs Paul Harris finds the religious right turning into swing voters
White House contender Barack Obama and his defeated Democratic rival Hillary Clinton are to hold their first joint campaign rally.
As Barack Obama moves his presidential campaign into traditionally Republican states, a new poll shows that race remains a potent issue for voters.
Barack Obama faced widespread condemnation on Friday from both right and left for reneging on a promise on election campaign financing.
The 2008 US presidential elections are playing out in the glow of an internet that has come of age, and the impact was always certain to be profound.
Barack Obama’s wardrobe has been striking in its simplicity. His trademark is a slim-fitting black suit, and a sense of spit and polish.
White House hopeful Barack Obama on Wednesday said Republican policies on national security had left Americans less safe and less respected.
He has roused black and young voters as never before, but Barack Obama has to maintain the rest of the Democratic base.
Presidential candidate Barack Obama tells Jorge Ramos what he would do in Latin America.
Former United States vice-president Al Gore pledged on Monday to do all he could to help Barack Obama win the White House.
The US presidential hopeful is a great improvement on the current leadership, but just how progressive he might be remains to be seen.
It’s official. Americans won’t be inaugurating a woman president next January. From a feminist perspective it’s hard not to feel a bit defeated.
Barack Obama is to send thousands of campaign volunteers across the US in an effort to create one of the most sophisticated political operations.
The prediction market is said to be more accurate than opinion polls. Kevin Davie investigates.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was roiled by another campaign scandal on Wednesday when a key adviser resigned.