One of the benefits of an extended presidential campaign is that it presents real-world tests for candidates. Some take the form of pop quizzes assessing contenders' instincts in a crisis. Others are more like take-home exams -- the latest, and perhaps most revealing, being competing plans for an economic stimulus ( Read more... )

An ice storm shut down roads and airports in Iowa Saturday, but that wasn't enough to stop the presidential campaign now roaring through the state. Democratic candidates took part in an afternoon forum and in the traditional Iowa Brown and Black Forum, which focused attention on issues affecting African Americans and Hispanics in the state ( Read more... )

The Illinois senator and presidential hopeful met with nine women at L.A. Burdick chocolate company, where several workers praised the company for offering family leave and flexible schedules. Other participants in the round-table meeting said they weren't so lucky, however, including a newly single mother of two teenagers who is working two jobs ( Read more... )

"I am getting a fair hearing and I will get a fair hearing and I think we're going to win this place," Obama said Friday, campaigning for the Iowa caucuses that are now just eight weeks away ( Read more... )

Democrat Barack Obama offered a package of proposals Wednesday aimed at halting growing income inequity, including an overhaul of bankruptcy laws and tax breaks to make college more affordable for the middle class ( Read more... )

In this country, we have always believed that a lifetime of hard work and honest living should be rewarded with a secure and dignified retirement. But today, too many seniors are being denied that security because they cannot afford the rising costs of everything from their gas to their medicine. The last thing they need is a tax code that works ( Read more... )

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BRIAN WILLIAMS: Let's talk about the campaign which I understand you've been spending some of your free time doing.  To-- what's the surprise?  What is it, seven months into it?

BARACK OBAMA: You know, I am number one surprised by the extraordinary interest of the American people.  I think even early on, I mean, we were getting crowds of twenty ( Read more... )

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told Wall Street Investors Monday that several of them have been too focused on their own gain at the expense of struggling Americans and echoed Franklin Delano Roosevelt's call for "a reappraisal of values ( Read more... )

Every day, millions of working Americans go to their jobs, play by the rules and hope to make a decent living for themselves and their families. These workers strengthen our middle class and keep our economy going. In turn, the vast majority of American employers hold up their end of the bargain by treating their employees fairly.
But sadly, many ( Read more... )