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WASHINGTON — People around the globe widely expect the next American president to improve the country’s policies toward the rest of the world, especially if Barack Obama is elected, yet they retain a persistently poor image of the U.S., according to a poll released Thursday.
The survey of two dozen countries, conducted this spring by the [...]

Barack Obama faces the difficult task of shifting his message away from the primary electorate to general election voters, while avoiding angering the more liberal primary voters who gave him the presidential nomination.
Obama appears at the close of this week to have overcome one of his first hurdles — a furor among labor and activist [...]

It’s less than a week into the general election campaign, but already Michelle Obama is a Republican target.
Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger leveled the first blow, introducing Republican John McCain’s wife at a fundraiser this week as someone who is “proud of her country, not just once but always.”
Obama wasn’t mentioned by name, but [...]

Hillary is the only First Lady ever to run for president. And we have her to thank—as well as Obama—for the renewed energy American voters have for politics.
We also have Hillary to thank for putting issues of gender and power back into American politics.
As an intelligent and formidable opponent to Obama, Hillary brought the debate [...]

By virtue of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s suspension of her campaign, Barack Obama is now poised to become the undisputed winner of the Democratic presidential nomination.
But he’s not the only victor to have emerged after the grueling, six-month primary season. Members of Congress and governors who took high-profile roles in the campaign are also drawing widespread [...]

Feeling confident with his current momentum in the campaign, Senator Obama takes the mic and tells some jokes about the Clintons.

The pastor of my church, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who recently preached his last sermon and is in the process of retiring, has touched off a firestorm over the last few days. He’s drawn attention as the result of some inflammatory and appalling remarks he made about our country, our politics, and my political opponents.
Let [...]

Sen. Barack Obama swept the Louisiana primary and caucuses in Nebraska and Washington state Saturday night, slicing into Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s slender delegate lead in their historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The Illinois senator also won caucuses in the Virgin Islands, completing his best night of the campaign.
“Today, voters from the West Coast [...]

James Dobson, one of the nation’s most prominent evangelical Christian leaders, backed Mike Huckabee’s presidential bid Thursday night, giving the former Arkansas governor a long-sought endorsement as the Republican field narrowed to a two-man race.
In a statement first obtained by The Associated Press, Dobson revisited his declaration on Super Tuesday that he could not [...]

Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) — Illinois Senator Barack Obama defeated New York Senator Hillary Clinton in Georgia’s primary, networks projected, gaining the first victory on the biggest day of voting in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Obama’s victory in Georgia, where blacks comprise about half of the state’s Democratic voters, was projected by CNN, NBC, [...]