Steve Shickles

AP - Florida broke Democrats’ hearts in 2000 and snubbed them four years later.

AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama padded his campaign fundraising numbers Friday with small- and big-buck events, telling one overflow crowd that as president he’d champion an energy revolution on the homefront and improve America’s foreign reputation.

AP - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson raised $7 million for his Democratic presidential campaign during the last three months, surpassing his first quarter fundraising, his campaign announced Friday.

AP - Sam Brownback says he harbored a “hatred” of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton until he experienced a religious awakening in the mid-1990s.

AP - If Bill Clinton was the “first black president,” his wife and Barack Obama are vying to be the second.

AP - He skipped the bagel. New Yorker Rudy Giuliani dropped into a California bagel shop Friday in the middle of a state fundraising swing. He pumped a lot of hands. Smiled for pictures. Had some coffee — even autographed a paper cup. But the Republican presidential candidate didn’t touch the California bagels.

AP - A historically diverse field of Democratic presidential candidates — a woman, a black, an Hispanic and five whites — denounced an hours-old Supreme Court affirmative action ruling Thursday night and said the nation’s slow march to racial unity is far from over.

AP - Hours after a massive immigration bill collapsed in the Senate, lawmakers and lobbyists began seeking ways to pass bits and pieces of the measure important to their constituents.

AP - Quotes from the Democrats’ debate Thursday night:

AFP - Democratic presidential hopefuls on Thursday vowed to fight the scourges of AIDS, poverty and discrimination afflicting African Americans, and to get tough with Sudan over Darfur in their third live televised presidential debate.