WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- The overriding U.S. financial crisis has rendered Republican candidate John McCain's ads attacking his democratic rival ineffective, election observers say.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Racial backlash against Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Barack Obama could make a difference if the election is close in November, analysts say.

WASHINGTON, May 27 (UPI) -- U.S. political analysts are waiting to see if national Democratic leader Howard Dean can make a deal on convention delegates from Michigan and Florida.

RALEIGH, N.C., April 3 (UPI) -- The May 6 North Carolina primary looms large for both U.S. senators trying to become the Democratic Party's nominee for president, a party analyst says.

WASHINGTON, April 20 (UPI) -- Democratic campaign strategists say an increasing number of fundraisers are lending their services to presidential rivals of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.

PHOENIX, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. liberals will get a new forum for discussing politics late this month when the Nova M talk radio network debuts nationwide.

WASHINGTON, July 25 (UPI) -- First, it was blogs. Then, it was Meetup.com. Now, the newest technology to combine the Internet and politics is slowly starting to creep into the mainstream: podcasting.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's bid for national Democratic chairman was hardly out of the gate Wednesday when his ex-campaign chief endorsed someone else.

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- TV news divisions went into election night promising not to project winners in states where vote totals for President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry were too close to call, but the discipline didn't hold, as Fox News called Bush a winner