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Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's appeal as a corruption-fighting outsider may be undercut by a legislative probe of her conduct in a personnel case.

Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- John McCain and the Republican Party will open their convention next week with one eye on the weather radar and another on the National Football League.

Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president, mixing a soaring pledge to preserve the ``American promise'' with a sharp attack on John McCain's judgment on the war, the economy and support of George W. Bush.

Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama's speech last night left Janell Mader, a 32-year-old lifelong Republican, ``a little overwhelmed'' -- and likely to vote for him in November.

Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Building engineer Marshall Clemons feared there would be ``these strange, awkward, silent moments'' when Senator Joe Biden spent the day with him fixing a school furnace.

Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, John McCain's vice presidential running mate, lacks the experience to lead the country and won't offer much appeal to women voters, said Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano.

Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) -- John McCain's presidential campaign said it is keeping watch on the path of Tropical Storm Gustav after a report that Republican officials are considering delaying the party's national convention next week.

Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama successfully used his convention speech to lay out the stakes for the November election and draw a contrast with Republican John McCain, though he may receive little or no bounce in the polls, the Democratic nominee's chief strategist said.

Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- When Barack Obama strides onto the 50-yard line of Denver's mile-high Invesco Field tonight to accept his party's nomination, expectations will be just as elevated.

Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Nathaniel Jones has lived for a moment that he assumed he would never see.

Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Terry Fields, a black Florida legislator with dreams of holding statewide office, said he's about where Barack Obama was six years ago. Fields has one advantage.

Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- When 76,000 people pack Denver's Invesco Field tomorrow to hear Senator Barack Obama's acceptance speech, they'll be called on to get to work.

Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. is facing the worst financial crisis since the Depression. You would never know that from the Democrats' platform in Denver or its Republican counterpart, or from listening to Barack Obama or John McCain.

Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Leaving office after 24 years as mayor of Hialeah, Florida, Raul Martinez hadn't planned on plunging into another campaign. Then Representative Chris Van Hollen, the Democratic Party's top congressional talent scout, came calling.

Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's appeal as a corruption-fighting outsider may be undercut by a legislative probe of her conduct in a personnel case.

Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Senate Democrats are profiting from the reluctance of some Hillary Clinton fundraisers to help Barack Obama.

Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Oman's ambassador to the U.S., Hunaina bint Sultan bin Ahmad al-Mughairi, was doing some serious mingling among the Democratic foreign policy elite at the Denver Art Museum.

Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama became the first black in American history to win the nomination of a major political party as Democrats formally named him by acclaim as their candidate for president.

Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton released the convention delegates who were pledged to her, freeing them to vote to nominate her one-time rival Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential candidate.

Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Former President Bill Clinton last night erased any doubt about his support for Barack Obama, as he argued that Republican candidate John McCain is on the wrong side of the ``great questions'' in the November election.

Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton asked her supporters last night to put aside any idea of voting for Republican John McCain and instead back her former rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama.

Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama promised tonight to fix the ``broken politics'' of Washington and preserve the ideals of a nation that allowed him to become the first black presidential nominee of a major U.S. political party.

Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain has made a decision on who will be his running mate and will announce his choice tomorrow at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, campaign officials said.

Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama was declared the Democratic candidate for president, the first black in American history to win the nomination of a major political party.

Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Talks with Iran would help Senator Barack Obama make good on a pledge to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq within 16 months of taking office as president, Obama's national security adviser said.

Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Senator Ted Stevens won his Alaska Republican primary race less than a month after his indictment on corruption charges, while Representative Don Young's bid for a 19th term is too close to call.

Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton asked her supporters last night to put aside any idea of voting for Republican John McCain and instead back her former rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama.

Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) -- The Republican Party released a draft of its 2008 platform that differs from candidate John McCain on issues including immigration, stem-cell research and climate change, while endorsing his ideas for economic growth and free trade.