Bob Schieffer opened last night’s debate with a wistful plea. “By now we’ve heard all the talking points,” he said. “So let’s try to tell the people something they don’t know.” Good luck with that.

John McCain uncorked a new stump speech today in which he accuses overconfident Dems and their man Barack Obama of already "measuring the drapes" at the White House. This is a tactic that's been tried ...

Sen. John McCain, trailing in national polls with just three weeks until the presidential election, warned in a new stump speech at a campaign rally Monday that his opponent is already “measuring the ...

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With only a few weeks left in his struggling 2008 presidential campaign, John McCain pulled out an old political chestnut. The Republican senator told a Virginia crowd, “The national media has written ...

A new sign of a flailing President Biden being abandoned and overlooked by his Democratic Party is the increased public exposure of leftist figures seen as potential successors in what would be a rare ...

MSNBC's Alex Witt and CNN's T.J. Holmes each suggested that Sen. Barack Obama is prematurely “measuring the drapes” for the White House. In fact, Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan ...

Jumping the gun a bit before the election returns are in, Politico profiles Michigan Rep. Fred Upton as he “measures the drapes” to take over the House Energy and Commerce Committee, if Texas Rep. Joe ...

The conventional wisdom says that President Obama and his campaign team are exceedingly confident about the 2012 race, to the point of nearly being cocky. But Obama isn't the one already selling ...

As both parties poured money and campaign workers into 50 hotly contested races, polls showed Democrats with a good chance of taking control of the House of Representatives for the first time since ...

When I saw an "Urgent" story on the Associated Press wire Thursday saying that Barack Obama had approached an Illinois Congressman to possibly be his White House Chief Of Staff, I had a little chuckle ...