Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Sunday that his answer to the question "When does a baby get human rights?" at the recent Saddleback Church civic forum was probably too flip.
0Just a week ago, Palin was little known outside Alaska. Now she finds herself the most debated and dissected person in the nation. After a dizzying crash course on her life and her family, the emerging picture is riveting to many Americans, perplexing to others.
6Conservative Christian groups praised Sen. John McCain’s humbleness and patriotism after hearing his revealing acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention where he opened up about his family’s three generations of painful war experiences.
14Fred Thompson, the actor turned politician, recounted the harrowing story of John McCain's captivity as a Vietnam prisoner of war to tout the presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention and criticized Democrat Barack Obama's support for abortion rights.
2Catholics are shaping up to be the battleground religious vote of 2008. With an estimated 47 million U.S. Catholic voters, the stakes are huge.
8Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a "task that is from God."
73Sarah Palin has done in five days what John McCain has never been able to do — fire up the Republican Party's conservative base. The No. 2 on the GOP ticket clearly impressed the party faithful Wednesday.
26As a candidate for governor, Sarah Palin called for teaching creationism alongside evolution in public schools. But after Alaska voters elected her, Palin, now Republican John McCain's presidential running mate, kept her campaign pledge to not push the idea in the schools.
51President Bush gave his support to presumptive nominee Sen. John McCain at the Republican National Convention Tuesday evening by highlighting parts of the senator’s life story that display his strong character, and by declaring that he is the man America needs to lead it.
3Republicans rebuffed their certain nominee Monday by endorsing a platform that goes further than John McCain in opposition to abortion rights. The GOP document does not provide exceptions allowing abortion.
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