AP - Democrat Barack Obama raises $32 million in January … Polls finds high expectations for the next president, but doubts about changing Washington … Romney to go on the air in California, other Super Tuesday states … California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to endorse McCain … Obama, Paul among candidates to interact with young voters at forum
AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raised $32 million in the single month of January, a whopping figure that has permitted the campaign to boost staff and extend advertising to states beyond the sweeping Feb. 5 contests, aides said Thursday.
AFP - The New York Post on Thursday delivered a qualified endorsement of Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, snubbing Hillary Clinton, its hometown US senator.
AP - In a Jan. 30 story about the Democratic presidential campaign, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Hillary Rodham Clinton was to speak at the Southern Baptist Convention. She spoke to the National Baptist Convention, a joint meeting in Atlanta of four historically black Baptist denominations.
AP - John McCain appears to be steamrolling his way to the Republican nomination; Mitt Romney can’t seem to catch a break.
Reuters - Republican presidential
candidate Mitt Romney angrily accused his rival John McCain on
Wednesday of “dirty tricks” for saying he had backed a
timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq.
AP - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney plans to run a “significant” level of television ads in California and other states that vote Tuesday in essentially a national primary, aides said Thursday, signaling a willingness to aggressively try to derail Republican front-runner John McCain.
Rasmussen Reports - A Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Connecticut’s Republican Presidential Primary finds John McCain with a sixteen-point lead over Mitt Romney in the Nutmeg State. McCain attracts 42% of the vote while just 26% prefer the candidate from the neighboring state of Massachusetts. Rudy Giuliani picked up 12% of the vote and nobody else reached double digits.
AFP - After chasing all their rivals from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama now face off over who is more capable of beating Republican front-runner John McCain to win the White House.
AP - Republican Mitt Romney accused John McCain of using dirty tricks by suggesting the former Massachusetts governor wanted a deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, in a spirited debate Wednesday night that underscored the intensity of their presidential rivalry.