AFP - A top US Senator on Wednesday said that Pakistan should not negotiate with Taliban or Al-Qaeda militants near the Afghan border and should limit peace talks to tribal elders.
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CQPolitics.com - Congressional candidates have racked up more than $130 million in debt this election cycle, although some of it has been carried over from prior years. Republican House and Senate candidates lead the way with $88 million, while the Democrats are carrying $42 million in IOUs.
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AFP - US Senator Joe Lieberman said Thursday he had no plan to be the running mate for Republican presidential hopeful John McCain as he had already “been there and done that.”
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CQPolitics.com - A quiet primary in Idaho on Tuesday clarified the field for the Senate race and the state’s two House races for the November election.
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CQPolitics.com - The political problems faced by the Republican Party have become national in nature, even in the conservative South, where the GOP’s long ascendancy has recently been blunted. This trend can be seen in microcosm in the two open-seat House races this year in Alabama — a state that bills itself as “The Heart of Dixie” — where the candidate matchups for this fall’s contest will be set in a primary to be held next Tuesday.
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AP - Barack Obama’s doctor said Thursday the presidential candidate was in excellent health at the time of his last checkup 16 months ago, but he has a family history of cancer and a big, obvious risk — a smoking habit that he’s trying, again, to break.
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AP - The Democratic presidential race is heading into a fractious end game as supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton mobilize for a protest Saturday to demand that the party count two outlawed primaries that favored her.
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AP - Top Democratic leaders intend to push for a quick end to the battle for the presidential nomination when primaries are over next week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday, adding that he, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and party chairman Howard Dean will urge uncommitted delegates to choose sides.
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AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Thursday that he was “deeply disappointed” by a supporter’s sermon at his church that mocked Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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AP - Barack Obama — increasingly under fire from John McCain as he appears poised to win the Democratic nomination — said he is considering a trip to Iraq but dismissed as a “political stunt” an invitation by the Republican candidate to make the visit together.
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