Obama urges Americans not to panic over economy

Oct. 8, 2008

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is urging Americans not to panic over the faltering economy, saying that better days lie ahead....

Barack Obama: U.S. president-elect

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Barack Obama, with projected wins in West Coast states, became the first African-American president-elect of the United States Tuesday.

Obama votes on Election Day

CHICAGO, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama cast his ballot Tuesday in an elementary school in his South Side Chicago neighborhood.

Long campaign in the hands of voters

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain engaged in a little Election Day rallying, stumping Tuesday in Grand Junction, Colo.

Poll: Obama leads nationally

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama leads Republican John McCain nationally, an Ipsos/McClatchy Poll indicated Monday.

Poll: Obama has 5-point lead in Ohio

CINCINNATI, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is 5 points ahead of his opponent in Ohio, a poll released Monday indicates.

Campaign financing debate reopened

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama's ability to raise huge sums of money has reopened the debate on campaign financing, strategists said.

Candidates hit must-win states

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Both major-party campaigns keyed in on battleground states across the United States, fanning out from East to West.

Candidates sprint to Election Day

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- The final 48 hours before Election Day had both major-party U.S. presidential candidates making their last-minute pleas for support in key states Sunday.

McCain hopes for Pennsylvania upset

STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Supporters of Republican U.S. presidential nominee John McCain are focusing their hopes on an upset win in Pennsylvania, political analysts say.

Candidates push hard in last 72 hours

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Sen. Barack Obama is pressing hard in normally Republican-friendly states Saturday, with campaign stops scheduled in Missouri, Colorado and Nevada.

Palin pushes for 11th-hour contributions

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is using e-mail to get Republican donors to pony up $5 million for the final push of the U.S. presidential race.

N.J. voters would support black candidate

TRENTON, N.J., Oct. 31 (UPI) -- More than 90 percent of New Jersey residents say that they are willing to vote for a black presidential candidate, a new poll indicates.

McCain points up difference with Obama

DEFIANCE, Ohio, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain assailed his Democratic rival Thursday, saying he was untested in foreign policy and wrong on domestic issues.

Obama: Bad policy led to bad economy

SARASOTA, Fla., Oct. 30 (UPI) -- The falling gross domestic product is a "direct result" of policies that drove the U.S. economy "into the ditch," Democratic candidate Barack Obama said.

Caroline Kennedy campaigns for Obama

TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy, says residents of a Florida retirement community should vote Democratic on Election Day.