Race for '08: John McCain

Over half of U.S. voters (51%) think reporters are trying to hurt Sarah Palin with their news coverage, and 24% say those stories make them more likely to vote for Republican presidential candidate John McCain in November.

ST. PAUL (Reuters) - Sarah Palin broke a five-day silence and talked her way into Republican hearts and minds. The Alaska governor plucked from relative obscurity by John McCain to be his vice presidential running mate for the Nov. 4 election pressed all the right buttons in a much anticipated speech on Wednesday at the party's national convention.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - The wife of Republican presidential nominee John McCain doesn't agree with vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's opposition to abortion in cases of rape and incest.

Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The site of one of the worst U.S. bridge disasters served as a backdrop yesterday for House Republicans seeking more highway money over the opposition of President George W. Bush and presidential nominee John McCain.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Sarah Palin has done in five days what John McCain has never been able to do — fire up the Republican Party's conservative base.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Feeling mounting scrutiny since becoming John McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin enjoyed a respite with Republican delegates who showered her with love and cheered her status as a working mother and her experience running Alaska's government.

Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Alaska Governor Sarah Palin cast herself as a family-centered public servant from small-town America who will help Republican presidential nominee John McCain vanquish the Democrats and bring change to Washington.

Delegates to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul on Wednesday night overwhelmingly nominated Arizona Sen. John McCain as their candidate for president of the United States.

ST. PAUL (Reuters) - He has been called a maverick, a hero, a survivor. John McCain, the longtime Arizona senator adds a new title on Thursday: Republican presidential nominee.

John McCain, whose political rise owed to his reputation as a political maverick willing to buck his party, will become its official leader tonight when he accepts the Republican presidential nomination.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Republicans have nominated Sen. John McCain for president, handing the senator the prize that eluded him eight years ago.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - John McCain, a POW turned political rebel, vowed Thursday night to vanquish the "constant partisan rancor" plaguing the nation as he launched his fall campaign for the White House. "Change is coming" to Washington, he promised the Republican National Convention.

MINNEAPOLIS - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Thursday blamed supporters of the Democratic presidential ticket for spreading "misinformation and flat-out lies" about her and her family.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - John McCain will use his convention speech to lay out a vision for the presidency and draw contrasts with Barack Obama over which candidate has a record of enacting political reform, aides to the Arizona senator said Wednesday.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Several leading women in the business community, addressing the GOP presidential convention Wednesday, said John McCain's plan for lower taxes, less government and a push to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil will do more to help revive the struggling economy than the Democratic agenda.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has gone before the Republican National Convention to declare that Sen. John McCain is the man the people should trust to lead the country at a dangerous time in its history.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin accepted John McCain's invitation to be his running mate, but at one time she wasn't certain what a vice president does. Former McCain rivals Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee sung McCain's praises, papering over differences that emerged in the primary. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, a former Democrat, wasn't always as harsh on Barack Obama as he was Tuesday night.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - "Of course," John McCain says, "it helps to be a mayor."

The Republican Party's most renowned rebel will become its official leader Thursday night when John McCain accepts his party's presidential nomination.

ST. PAUL (Reuters) - Republican candidate John McCain said on Wednesday that if elected president, he will capture al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

ST. PAUL (Reuters) - Sen. John McCain on Wednesday touted Sarah Palin's experience in charge of Alaska's energy resources as evidence that she was prepared to serve as America's commander in chief.

Presidential conventions are meant to put the best public face on the attending party, promote its national ticket and motivate its activists for the upcoming election. But this week's Republican convention in St. Paul that will nominate Arizona Sen. John McCain for president and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for vice president also is a time of introspection.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - John McCain's campaign could be panicking or politicking with its claim that sexism lies beneath any questions about Sarah Palin's past.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Republican John McCain said Wednesday that Sarah Palin is a solid running mate because she's "in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply" as Alaska's governor, has served as a mayor and the voters in her state have evaluated her and approved of her at the ballot box.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - David Letterman is feeling a bit remorseful about poking fun at the advanced age of Republican presidential contender John McCain, telling Rolling Stone magazine that his McCain jokes are "not entirely fair."

Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Republican John McCain arrived in Minneapolis-St. Paul as his campaign and former rivals for the presidential nomination mounted a defense of running mate Sarah Palin, who takes center stage at the party's convention tonight.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Retirees are shoveling campaign donations to 72-year-old Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who in recent months has also scored major contributions from real estate, insurance, energy and financial industries, according to an analysis released on Wednesday.

Election '08: Sarah Palin's entry into the vice presidential race not only breaks glass ceilings. It shatters the Democrats' aging feminist agenda that has done far less to empower women than John McCain.

ST PAUL, Minnesota (AFP) - Republican White House nominee John McCain on Wednesday attacked Barack Obama's achievements as "meager" and said his Democratic foe did not know how the world, or the US military, worked.