Prior to his Mideast trip, Barack Obama made news by announcing his plan to accept the Democratic nomination at an open-air event to be staged at Denver's INVESCO Field at Mile High. On Aug. 28, Obama will give his acceptance speech before a crowd expected to exceed 75,000. (Historical note: In a similar manner, John F. Kennedy stood before an ...

The current opinion poll on the ADVANCE Web site's home page asks, Which of the two presumptive nominees for president has the best plan for using information technology to improve health care? As of mid-day on July 14, John McCain (52 percent of the votes) leads Barack Obama (48 percent). The poll will remain open until July 16. You ...

Projecting the 2008 general election to be ''one of the most consequential in U.S. history,'' George Stephanopoulos, chief Washington correspondent for ABC News, points out how slim the voting margin can be: ''The 2000 election was settled by the U.S. Supreme Court when the official  count showed 537 votes in Florida separating Bush from ...

That's how graduate student and writer Paul Devlin started off his open letter to Michelle Obama at the end of April. He went as far as saying that the future of the free world and perhaps Barack Obama's campaign depends on him getting his nicotine fix: Maybe he could have one this weekend? He really needs to win Indiana. Also, keep in ...

Results of a Reuters/Zogby poll released today give Democrat Barack Obama a 5-point edge over Republican John McCain in the general election for president. The national survey of 1,113 likely voters, taken June 12-14, had a margin of error of 3 percentage points, according to Reuters, making Obama's lead tenuous. ''This race is ...

In a speech in Washington June 7, Hillary Clinton announced the suspension of her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination and congratulated Barack Obama on his hard-fought victory. ''I endorse him, and throw my full support behind him,'' Clinton told a sea of supporters at the National Building Museum. ''And I ask all of you ...

With a win in yesterday's Montana primary and the more significant public endorsements of Democratic superdelegates, Barack Obama easily moved past the count of 2,118 delegates needed to clinch the party's presidential nomination. The Associated Press (AP) reported that Obama has secured at least 2,154 delegates. Pennsylvania Gov. Ed ...

According to an Associated Press (AP) tally, Barack Obama entered today's Montana and South Dakota primaries with 2,076 total delegates, 42 short of the number needed to secure the Democratic presidential nomination. Hillary Clinton has 1,917 delegates, the AP reported. The Montana and South Dakota contests mark the end of the primary ...

HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt prefaced his keynote address at the 2008 World Health Care Congress in Washington last month with an amusing anecdote. Click the video player below to watch him recap a “Centenarian Day” encounter during his governorship of Utah.  

Former rival John Edwards endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination last evening. The annoucement came at an Obama campaign appearance in Grand Rapids, Mich. According to a Bloomberg.com report, Edwards said Obama is the candidate who can unite Democrats for the ``fight of our lives'' in the November election. ''Edwards is ...