DENVER -- Fresh off his historic nominating convention, Democrat Barack Obama is embarking on what likely will be the most important 67 days of his campaign for the White House. Republican...
NEW YORK -- Barack Obama transcended politics on Thursday in accepting his party's nomination for president during an event that played out on television like a combination of a rock concert and Super Bowl.
DENVER -- Barack Obama, whose campaign theme is "change we can believe in," promised Thursday to "spell out exactly what that change would mean."
DENVER -- Oprah Winfrey is leaving Denver with the candidate she wanted, but reportedly without her eyelashes.
DENVER -- The rooms of the modern American household have always crept into campaigns. Politics makes strange bedfellows, for one. The living-room war ended Lyndon Johnson's political career. And everyone keeps saying the economy's headed for the toilet.
DENVER -- First word on Barack Obama's historic nomination acceptance speech from a bevy of celebrities in attendance was decidedly partisan: "It was excellent," Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie said. "It was amazing."
DENVER -- Surrounded by an enormous, adoring crowd, Barack Obama promised a clean break from the "broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush" Thursday night as he embarked on the final lap of his audacious bid to become the nation's first black president.
DENVER -- Some 84,000 people packed Denver's Invesco Field at Mile High to see Barack Obama make history.
DENVER -- Barack Obama cast his presidential nomination as proof that no dreams are too high, savoring an historic moment for himself and the nation Thursday before embarking on a difficult struggle to break another barrier for a black American.
DENVER -- Al Gore told Democrats Thursday night that the 2008 election is close because defenders of the status quo "are desperately afraid of the change Barack Obama represents." And the former vice president said he knows something about close elections.
DENVER -- Barack Obama stepped triumphantly into history Wednesday night, the first black American to win a major party presidential nomination, as thousands of Democrats transformed their convention hall into a joyful, shouting celebration.
DENVER -- Barack Obama aims to weave the personal with the political Thursday night as he tells 75,000 supporters in a football stadium -- and millions more at home -- how as president he would make a difference in their lives.
DENVER -- Barack Obama achieved a historic breakthrough with his nomination for president, but you wouldn't know it by tracking the official events of the Democratic convention's first three days.
DENVER -- An ABC News producer covering the Democratic convention was pushed into traffic by a sheriff's deputy on Wednesday and then arrested, the network said.
Politics can be treacherous. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi walked on even riskier ground in a recent TV interview when she attempted a theological defense of her support for abortion rights.
DENVER -- Former President Clinton forcefully endorsed Barack Obama's bid for the White House on Wednesday, telling delegates to the Democratic convention that Obama is "ready to lead America and restore American leadership in the world."
DENVER -- Sen. John Kerry tells fellow Democrats tonight he doesn't recognize Republican John McCain, a man he once considered as a running-mate.
DENVER -- Joe Biden declared Wednesday that America doesn't need a good soldier in the White House, it needs the wise leadership of Barack Obama. As Biden concluded his speech accepting the Democratic vice presidential nomination, Obama stepped on stage and embraced his man to a convention roar.
DENVER -- It was a closing of sorts, but whether closure was there is another matter.
DENVER -- We supposedly live in a classless society, but the velvet ropes have been spreading like weeds in recent years. How odd, then, that the power-saturated floor of the Democratic National Convention is, in fact, one of the most democratic places on Earth -- providing, that is, you have the proper credentials.
