AP Adwatch
  • Presidential campaigns ramp up on attacks
  • Financial crisis becomes issue even in unrelated ads
  • The gloves are off
  • A look at McCain's ads
  • Obama's public financing decision
  • Candidates and gas prices
  • See the shots Clinton and Obama are taking at each other
Local Politics
Finance official urges cooperation on stimulus
Gov. Tim Pawlenty's top finance official says it will take cooperation and coordination to make sure the state maximizes any money from the federal stimulus bill...
Senate fiasco could boost early voting efforts
It may not be too early to declare one winner in Minnesota's Senate election fiasco: the folks who want the state to adopt early voting...
Presidential Election
Palin launches political action committee
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin launched a political action committee Tuesday to help support candidates for federal and state office.  
Analysis: Barack Obama’s many faces, all useful
The biracial American kid with a Kenyan father who went from place to place, who struggled to put down roots and figure out where he fit in? He’s Barack Obama.  
Wright: Obama shows blacks shouldn’t accept limits
Barack Obama’s controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, said Sunday that the lesson in Obama’s rise to the White House is that black people shouldn’t limit themselves _ or allow others to.  
Obama says he’s hopeful despite challenges
President-elect Barack Obama says he remains "as hopeful as ever" that the nation will overcome the most difficult challenges it has faced in generations.  
Election General
  • Michael Steele becomes first black RNC chairman
  • Republican Romney criticizes Obama on abortion
  • Influence business immune to economic downturn
Election House
  • Indicted La. rep may have lost bargaining chip
  • NC candidate says he repaid campaign for clothing
  • Democrats pick up a House seat in central Ohio
  • 1st Vietnamese-American elected to US Congress
Election Senate
  • Franken in waiting: Says he’s ready to join Senate
  • GOP faces tough Senate races next year
  • Sen. Harry Reid is GOP target in 2010 election
  • Govs cast in unflattering light with Senate picks