AP - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson raised about $5.2 million for his Democratic presidential bid during the last three months, bringing his total fundraising for the year to more than $18 million, his campaign said Sunday.
AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Sunday that the front-runner for his party’s nomination, Hillary Rodham Clinton, does not offer the break from politics as usual that voters need.
AP - Sen. John McCain said in an interview published Saturday that he would prefer a Christian president over someone of a different faith, calling it “an important part of our qualifications to lead.”
AP - Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson said Sunday it would be “enormously unwise” for the Bush administration to take military action against Iran before it gets out of Iraq.
CQPolitics.com - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, architect of the 1994 âContract With Americaâ that helped Republicans sweep into control of the House, has announced he will not run in the 2008 presidential election.
Bloomberg - Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich
cited federal campaign finance laws as the reason he won't run
for the Republican presidential nomination, saying the current
system precludes a “middle-class candidate.''
AP - Rudy Giuliani has focused on November 2008 — and Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton — from the outset of his presidential bid with a strategy as uncertain as it is necessary.
AP - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sunday he could have been a contender, but has no regrets about skipping the race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.
AP - It is gallows humor time for Republicans in Congress, where one lawmaker jokes that “there’s talk about us going the way of the Whigs,” the 19th century political party long extinct.
AP - Rudy Giuliani made a simple case for his presidential candidacy Saturday to a national convention of Republican women: He’s not Hillary Clinton.