Author: Wall Street Journal

It is increasingly looking like next week’s Super Tuesday primaries won’t produce a Democratic front-runner. So then what? The Democratic nomination isn’t likely to be settled on the floor of this summer’s convention, political experts say. But that doesn’t mean …

With five days left before Super Tuesday, presidential campaign ads have gone national — yet some candidates are on the airwaves in more of the country than others. In a last big push before 24 states hold primary elections and …

TAMPA, Fla. — Even as Tuesday’s primary here gave Arizona Sen. John McCain new momentum going into next week’s Super Tuesday voting for the Republican presidential nomination, it revealed signs of stress in the party’s pivotal grasp on Florida.

LOS ANGELES — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raised $32 million in contributions for January, his campaign reported, and will use the haul to finance a broad radio and television campaign in most Super Tuesday states and seven others holding …

PLAINS, Ga. — Former President Jimmy Carter lavished praise on Illinois Sen. Barack Obama during an interview at his home on Monday, though he won’t formally endorse any candidate in the race for the Democratic nomination.

He also was poised to receive the endorsement of the Republican field’s onetime front-runner. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was planning to drop out and throw his support to Sen. McCain, associates said, after coming in a distant …

The president highlighted the progress he is seeing in many of the trouble spots of his sometimes-rocky tenure, from Iraq to the U.S. housing market to hurricane-stricken New Orleans. He also touted a range of modest bipartisan agreements that his …

Six months ago, when Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign was left for dead at the side of the road to the White House, he seemed to have perished because he was in the wrong place on two important issues: Iraq …

A former New York City firefighter whose son, also a firefighter, died on duty in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Mr. Riches is running a shoestring campaign to defeat Rudy Giuliani in tomorrow’s Florida Republican primary. Mr. Riches’s method: telling …

For weeks, presidential candidates have waged battle one state at a time. But now the race enters a new phase, with candidates delving into the complex coast-to-coast contest known as Super Tuesday, and tough decisions are being made about where …

Presidential hopefuls from John F. Kennedy to Mrs. Clinton’s husband, Bill, lost their voices at some point during White House bids — silencing them temporarily and prompting quests for unusual remedies. Mr. Clinton hummed, drank up to 1½ gallons of …

Free enterprise has been good to Bill Gates. But today, the Microsoft Corp. chairman will call for a revision of capitalism. In a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the software tycoon plans to call for …

Barack Obama’s overwhelming weekend victory in South Carolina’s Democratic primary gives him new momentum in the run-up to the near-national nominating contest a week from tomorrow, known as Super Tuesday. But Mr. Obama heads into the 22-state showdown as the …

As budget director in the cabinet of President George H.W. Bush, Richard Darman was the chief architect of the landmark 1990 deficit-reduction plan. Because it included tax increases, that plan earned Mr. Darman the lasting enmity of Republican conservatives, …

Just when it seemed Americans couldn’t get any gloomier about the country’s direction, they have. That finding, from the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, could leave Republicans the gloomiest of all, as prospects for their party darken further in …