TRAIL TIMES

Only at The Washington Times: Reporters discuss the latest news from the 2008 Presidential Election.

• Obama gaffes have written McCain stump speech

  By Stephen Dinan — Published October 23, 2008 Comments

  At this point John McCain's standard campaign stump speech is almost entirely based on gaffes by Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

• Daily Show rips McCain, Palin as hypocrites

  By Christina Bellantoni — Published October 22, 2008 Comments

  Last night's show was tough on GOP ticket, Obama.

• Florida residents want to go back to normalcy

  By KIM KWEDER — Published October 22, 2008 Comments

  Florida residents want to hear from candidates on going back in time, before President George W. Bush was in office, and talk about big topics on the homefront.

• Whoops! Michelle Obama gets crowd size wrong

  By Christina Bellantoni — Published October 22, 2008 Comments

  Campaign yanks Web video where first lady hopeful overstates size of Miami rally.

• McCain campaign events need a droopy-drawers rule

  By Stephen Dinan — Published October 22, 2008 Comments

  Several of the eight young men standing behind the stage in Goffstown, N.H, this morning with M-A-V-E-R-I-C-K spelled on their chests had a droopy drawers problem.

• Biden blasts robo-calls

  By Christina Bellantoni — Published October 22, 2008 Comments

  VP nominee and MoveOn urge action, plus a look at swing state ground game.

• Bringing the surge back into the discussion

  By Stephen Dinan — Published October 20, 2008 Comments

  A third-party group is expanding its attacks on Barack Obama and the war on terror to Colorado and Ohio.

• McCain's Hispanic strategy failing

  By Stephen Dinan — Published October 20, 2008 Comments

  A new poll of Hispanic voters finds Barack Obama is clobbering John McCain.

• McCain supporters call early voters 'cheaters'

  By Christina Bellantoni — Published October 20, 2008 Comments

  Video from the trail shows a heated scene across street from polls.

• NYT's scoops on Cindy angers McCain camp

  By KIM KWEDER — Published October 18, 2008 Comments

  If the political mudslinging wasn't enough between the presidential candidates and their vice-president picks, the focus is now sticky on an accusation of media bias with The New York Times as the target.

• Joe the Plumber for Congress?

  By Stephen Dinan — Published October 17, 2008 Comments

  Despite being arrears in taxes and potentially in violation of license laws for being a plumber — or maybe because of that — some folks say Joe the Plumber, real name Joe Wurzelbacher, is needed in Congress.

• Would the GOP disenfranchise Joe the Plumber?

  By Stephen Dinan — Published October 17, 2008 Comments

  The Ohio Democratic Party says a Republican lawsuit to try to clean the voter rolls in Ohio could end up snaring Joe the Plumber.

• Red state tour

  By Christina Bellantoni — Published October 17, 2008 Comments

  On the road again to find out what's turning these red states purple.

• 'Joe the Plumber' is here to stay

  By Stephen Dinan — Published October 16, 2008 Comments

  John McCain wasted little time in further elevating "Joe the Plumber," taking the newest unlikely political star's case to voters in Pennsylvania.

• Money sense at the debate

  By Leslie Howell — Published October 15, 2008 Comments

  Debate-watching with a crowd at Kazi’s, a downstairs restaurant bar in Northwest Washington, D.C.