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CHICAGO — Barack Obama says he’s decided on a running mate, but he won’t say who. The Democratic presidential candidate told USA Today on Thursday that he went with someone who is independent and would challenge him in the White House.
(JOINED IN PROGRESS) OBAMA: ... not only are you feeling more insecure with your job, you can't get rising wages or rising incomes, and the cost of everything from gas to food to health care to trying to send your children to college keep on skyrocketing. And so what people were doing was for ...
U.S. presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain have agreed to speak at a New York City forum on public service to be held on September 11, the organizers said on Thursday.
A conservative nonprofit group with a past link to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign is spending $2.8 million on an ad questioning Democrat Barack Obama's relationship to a founder of the 1960s radical group Weather Underground.
Democrat Barack Obama attacked Republican John McCain on Thursday for not knowing how many houses he owns and said it proves his presidential rival is out of touch with the economic struggles of most Americans.
Barack Obama says he's decided on a running mate, but he won't say who. "I've made the selection, that's all you're gonna get," Obama said told reporters while campaigning in Virginia Thursday. Obama didn't say whether he's informed his pick yet.
John McCain may have created his own housing crisis. Hours after a report that the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting didn't know how many homes he and his multimillionaire wife own, Democratic rival Barack Obama launched a national TV ad and a series of campaign stops aimed at portraying McCain as wealthy and out of touch.
Sen. Barack Obama's campaign pounded Sen. John McCain for his failure to answer a question about how many homes he owns with a new attack ad Thursday.
Sen. Barack Obama said he has decided on his running mate, but he's not saying who it is.
Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama said in an interview Thursday he had chosen his running mate, and had sought out an independent thinker who was ready to be president.
Barack Obama says he's decided on a running mate, but he won't say who.
Democrat Barack Obama Thursday depicted John McCain as rich, out of touch and less a foreign-policy expert than he claims — part of the increasingly negative tone of the presidential hopeful's message as he tries to fight the perception that his campaign has stalled.
WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama likes to say, "We can't afford to give John McCain the chance to serve out George Bush's third term."
John McCain's strategy appears to have traction.
Nigeria's anti-graft agency said Thursday it has opened an inquiry into the organisation by the head of the stock exchange of a fundraising dinner linked to US presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
Several prospective running mates of Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain campaigned for their candidate on Thursday, while other potential picks spent time at home or at work.
