CNN's Jim Acosta looks at the challenges of personal baggage facing possible presidential candidates.
On the same day he was released from a hospital after undergoing a heart procedure, former President Clinton told reporters he has no plans to slow down.
Former president Bill Clinton discusses his recent procedure that placed two stents into one of his coronary arteries.
Former President Bill Clinton left the hospital Friday morning after doctors performed a procedure to restore blood flow in one of his coronary arteries, longtime friend Terry McAuliffe told CNN.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reached an important milestone Wednesday in her quest to pay the debt from her failed 2008 presidential bid: For the first time in eight months, her campaign committee reported having more money in the bank than it owes.
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Former President Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama talked by phone Monday morning, representatives of both said, as the Democrats sought to quash rumors that Clinton holds a grudge against the man who knocked his wife out of contention for the party's presidential nomination.
Obama and Clinton campaign in the New Hampshire town of Unity. Larry King talks with a panel about the event.
They beamed, hugged and praised one another. Their outfits even matched.
Sen. Hillary Clinton urges her supporters to vote for Sen. Barack Obama.
Barack Obama made history Tuesday night when he became the first African-American in U.S. history to clinch a major party's presidential nomination. But the Illinois senator faces several challenges as the campaign now turns to the general election -- notwithstanding a first order of business of helping to heal the wounds of a deeply divided Democratic Party.
Sen. Hillary Clinton tells supporters she will not be making a decision tonight about the future of her campaign.
Sen. Hillary Clinton said Tuesday night she would make no immediate decision on her next steps after winning the South Dakota primary but watching rival Sen. Barack Obama pick up enough delegates to win the Democratic presidential nomination.
A fight may be brewing over Sen. Hillary Clinton's verbal gaffe about the assassination of Robert Kennedy.
Sen. Hillary Clinton said Sunday some people are using her controversial reference to Robert F. Kennedy's assassination to suggest that she meant something "completely unthinkable."
Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign rejected suggestions Sunday that Sen. Hillary Clinton is staying in the race in hopes of brokering some kind of agreement with the likely Democratic nominee.
CNN Political Editor Mark Preston covers the political hot topics, including a Democrat changing his vote.
A Hillary Clinton backer's defection to the Barack Obama camp tightens the race for superdelegates, who could determine which candidate will become the Democratic presidential nominee.
CNN's Candy Crowley explains what is at stake for the Democrats with nine primaries remaining.
Sen. Hillary Clinton's Pennsylvania victory seems to be helping her regain ground financially against rival Barack Obama, who has outraised her by tens of millions of dollars.
CNN's Randi Kaye takes a look at Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign finances.
In round two of the state's complicated caucus system, Clinton and Obama forces maneuver for a crucial edge
Don't ask Ed Gillespie and Terry McAuliffe to stand close together for a photograph. The two political moneymen can't do it. It's not that Gillespie, the former Republican National Committee chairm...
Former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean said Wednesday that his party needs to be rebuilt, "not from the consultants down, but from the ground up."
John Kerry travels to the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Ohio on Tuesday, a day after urging voters in another key state -- Florida -- to cast their ballots early.
The Democratic National Committee has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission over Sinclair Broadcast Group's plans to air a program in prime time accusing John Kerry of betraying American POWs during the Vietnam War.
Democratic senators are seeking a federal probe of Sinclair Broadcast Group's plans to air an anti-Kerry film next week, just two weeks before the election.
High-level Democrats, including some inside the Kerry campaign, were appalled by this week's political sideshow.
Republicans demanded answers from the Kerry campaign Tuesday after revelations that a senior Kerry adviser and one of his most prominent supporters both had contact with the man who supplied now-discredited documents before CBS News used them in a story about President Bush's National Guard service.
The Bush and Kerry campaigns have reached a tentative agreement on a debate schedule, with the opponents apparently going head-to-head on three separate occasions, a Democratic source said Monday.
Top Democrats slapped back Sunday at a remark by House Speaker Dennis Hastert that al Qaeda leaders want Sen. John Kerry to beat President Bush in November.
Mothers of U.S. troops serving in Iraq will help Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry make the case Monday that President Bush's optimistic view of the war does not reflect reality, Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe said Sunday.
Presidential candidate Ralph Nader will be included on the Nov. 2 ballot in Florida on the Reform Party line, after the state's highest court turned back a Democratic effort to get him tossed from the ballot.
Democratic Sen. Zell Miller, saying that "family is more important than my party," told delegates to the Republican National Convention that he is proud to stand up for President Bush.
There is so much red, white and blue confetti on the ground you can't see the floor beneath your feet.
Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe has called on Ralph Nader to give up his independent bid for president and support Sen. John Kerry -- a move quickly rejected by the Nader campaign.
He has been regularly described as "too partisan," "bombastic" and "abrasive." And that's just by the man's friends.
The Bush and Kerry campaigns staked out turf in key states Saturday that could help determine November's election.
Just one week ago, the Bush and Kerry campaign trails fell silent to honor the memory of former President Reagan. Despite nonstop tributes to the "Great Communicator's" ability to bridge political divides, this week has evidently marked a quick return to politics as usual.
The vet voteupdated: Fri May 28 2004 07:25:00
We head into Memorial Day weekend today with thoughts of summer barbecues, swimming pools, global warming, gas prices, new Kerry ads in Virginia and the veterans who dominate this campaign. Not necessarily in that order.
With gas prices at a record high, Democrats Tuesday poured fuel on the debate over the soaring prices, accusing the Bush administration of failing to stabilize the market ahead of the summer vacation season.
Big-name surrogates run the show today.
As in football, the best defense is often the best offense in politics.
Vice President Dick Cheney, who often serves as the administration's point man in attacking White House hopeful John Kerry, was the subject of a blistering critique by a key Democratic leader on Monday.
What was meant by President Bush to be a joke about the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has brought little laughter to some Americans.
Howard Dean returns to center stage on the Left Coast today. John Kerry goes dark, taking holiday in Idaho.
John Edwards ends his '04 Dem campaign today at his daughter's high school in Raleigh, North Carolina, according to campaign sources, some 14 months after he joined up to be a "champion for regular people." (Al Sharpton might quit, too -- more on that below.)
Sen. John Kerry faces three major challenges following anticipated victories on Super Tuesday, his top advisers told CNN.
Top Democrats excoriated President Bush on Tuesday for announcing support for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, accusing him of using the issue for political gain and trying to draw attention away from his record.
Many political season observers will pay special attention Monday morning to Washington news conference planned by Ralph Nader to discuss his ideas for his 2004 presidential candidacy.
With consumer advocate Ralph Nader expected to announce this weekend whether he will run for president as an independent, Democrats urged him Friday to not seek a third-party candidacy, fearing he could ruin their White House hopes.
From CNN's Wolf Blitzer in Washington:
"What did you do during the war, daddy?"
Despite calls to move away from negative attacks in the 2004 presidential campaign season, Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie and campaign officials for Democratic hopeful John Kerry traded barbs, each accusing the other of dirty politics.
Though conceding that Iraq apparently did not possess weapons of mass destruction, President Bush defended his decision to go to war in an interview that aired Sunday, saying, "Saddam Hussein was dangerous, and I'm not just going to leave him in power and trust a madman."
President Bush left the Democrats alone to slug it out for a while in the early Democratic primaries, but now that the field is narrowing the Bush-Cheney campaign has decided it's time to come out swinging.
The White House and the head of the Republican Party denounced renewed questions about President Bush's military service record Tuesday, with GOP chief Ed Gillespie calling allegations that Bush skipped National Guard drills "flat wrong."
With Democratic hopefuls campaigning in the final weekend before Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, a tracking poll released Friday shows Sen. John Kerry pulling away from former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean in the Granite State.
With less than a week until the Iowa caucuses, the two Democratic candidates running neck-and-neck for first place in the state -- Howard Dean and Dick Gephardt -- continued to spar over the issue of the Iraq war.
President Bush said Saturday his program to allow illegal immigrants to work in the United States legally for up to three years was designed to put "willing foreign workers" in jobs that Americans are "not willing" to do.
Terry McAuliffe couldn't have written today's lede better himself: President Bush visits Palm Beach for the first time since '00 today, while Katherine Harris ponders an '04 Senate bid and Broward County grapples with yet another election debacle featuring hanging chads.
Steve Murphy, Rep. Richard Gephardt's campaign manager, this week professed to being baffled. How is it possible, he wondered, that Howard Dean's bizarre comments about Osama bin Laden attracted so little news media attention?
Hey, tycoon. Want to look like a hotshot raising money for your favorite political candidate, without all the mess and bother? Then hire your own political fundraiser. Movie moguls David Geffen, St...
Any Democrat running for President needs to be Terry McAuliffe's best friend. Vice President Al Gore flew through a snowstorm last year to attend McAuliffe's 40th birthday party. On the grip-'n'-gr...
Fortune: PEOPLE TO WATCHupdated: Mon Apr 28 1986 00:01:00
Terence R. McAuliffe For the last six years McAuliffe, 29, has been persuading businessmen to come to the aid of his party. He is finance director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee...
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