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With Election Day still three months away, 48 percent said they’re hearing too much about the Democratic candidate, according to a poll released Wednesday. Just 26 percent said the same about his Republican rival, John McCain.
Poll: Nearly half hearing too much about Obama
Meanwhile, McCain opposes the $300 billion farm bill and subsidies for ethanol, positions […]

Barack Obama put forward a broad energy plan Monday but his new proposal includes two significant reversals of positions he has taken in the past: He had steadfastly fought the idea of limited new offshore drilling and was against tapping the nation’s emergency oil stockpile.

Obama proposes tapping oil stockpiles

Intensified attacks by Republican John McCain […]

Advocates for gay and lesbian families are denouncing Sen. John McCain for opposing adoptions by gays. But his presidential campaign said that he does not seek a federal ban on the practice.
McCain Assailed for Opposing Gay Adoption
Meanwhile, Sen. Barack Obama said Tuesday that overall U.S. interests have been hurt by the Bush administration’s decision to […]

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s campaign announced Friday that he will campaign with former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton next week, a step toward unifying a fractured Democratic Party after a bruising primary fight.
A day earlier, Obama and Clinton also plan to meet in Washington with some of her top contributors in an effort to calm […]

Democrat Hillary Clinton met rival Barack Obama face-to-face with no one else present at Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s home Thursday night. Feinstein said she took them to her living room, where they sat “in two comfortable chairs facing one another” and then she left the room. No one else was present during the meeting and nothing […]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton shouldn’t share the presidential ticket.
“There’s plenty of talent to go around to draw upon for a good, strong ticket,” Pelosi said.
Pelosi: Clinton, Obama sharing the ticket not a good idea
North Carolina Republican leaders are standing by a TV ad critical of Obama despite […]

Florida’s Democratic Party chair urged Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sen. Barack Obama, the national party and the state’s congressional delegation to consider a combined vote-by-mail/in-person plan as a redo of the Jan. 29 presidential primary.
Florida Dems Weigh Mail-In Plan
Meanwhile, Obama attacked Sen. John McCain for reversing his position on President Bush’s tax cuts and Clinton […]

Sen. Barack Obama picked up 19 delegates, five more than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in Mississippi’s Democratic primary Tuesday. With 99 percent of the vote counted, Obama had 61 percent to 37 percent for Clinton.
Obama Wins Mississippi Democratic Race
While 92 percent of blacks in Mississippi lined up behind the Illinois senator, 70 percent […]

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton carefully evaded questions about the scandal involving Eliot Spitzer, her home state governor and a superdelegate.
“I don’t have any comment on that. Obviously I am sending my best wishes and thoughts to the governor and to his family,” Clinton said.
If Spitzer resigns, he would not be replaced as a superdelegate, according […]

Democrat Barack Obama ridiculed talk by Hillary Rodham Clinton that he could run as her vice presidential nominee, saying that voters must choose between the two for the top spot.
“I don’t know how somebody who is in second place is offering the vice presidency to the person who is first place,” Obama said, drawing cheers […]