A new ad for former Rep. Jim Slattery, who is taking on Sen. Pat Roberts(R) in Kansas, is sure to get attention but maybe for all the wrong reasons. It speaks for itself so let's take a look: Betcha didn't...

By Michael D. Shear Sen. John McCain's campaign manager said he sees no reason why McCain or his staff should comment regularly on the declining stock market, saying that he doesn't know what they would say. "It doesn't mean we don't care and aren't trying to do something about it, it's just I'm not exactly sure what you'd say everyday," said Rick Davis. The comment came as McCain did not comment directly on the stock market decline for the second day in a row. At a morning rally, the Republican nominee called for suspending rules that require seniors to begin selling their stock in retirement accounts at 70-and-a-half years old. Asked by reporters why McCain has not issued a statement on the stock market decline, as Sen. Barack Obama has, Davis said he saw no reason to. "There's very little a candidate for president and, after watching today, very little

A rigidly ideological stance against government intervention in free markets reflects the Republican Party now dominant in the House as well as in many state legislatures.

The 11 races for governor, by and large, are being swung outside the national spotlight by local issues and personalities.

While watching the vice-presidential debate with the New York Young Republican Club, I realized it was not The Sarah Palin Show, but The Joe Biden Show. And, it was good.

The 2008 election is now an Obama-Palin race about “the future,” and the only person who doesn’t seem to know it is Mr. Past, poor old John McCain.