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The campaign of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Sunday released an ad echoing the line from his acceptance speech that John "McCain doesn’t get it.”

BEAVER, Pa. — Just 12 hours after delivering a historic acceptance speech, Barack Obama was no longer the story.

Count Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin among the skeptical: John McCain's running mate isn't sure human behavior is responsible for global warming.

DENVER — That was one more bravura performance from Barack Obama on Thursday night, and 85,000 supporters in the football stadium here — and no doubt millions watching on television — were ecstatic over the oratorical flights of the newly crowned Democratic nominee.

Democrats may be blasting Sarah Palin as a doctrinaire conservative, and Republicans may be embracing her for the same reason, but her husband and oldest son are independents.

John McCain on Friday announced a running mate whom he met only six months ago and with whom he spoke just once on the phone about the position before offering it in person earlier this week.

Sarah Palin may be a complete stranger to most of the American public, but there’s an important subset of the population that’s doubtless already very familiar with John McCain’s surprise vice presidential pick: Democratic opposition researchers.

Barack Obama has pulled ahead of John McCain in the presidential race to take his largest lead of the month, according to multiple polls.

John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate presents the Obama-Biden campaign with an unwelcome and unexpected challenge: How do you go after a 44-year-old mother of five without once alienating the female voters you’ve just spent the last week trying to win back?

DAYTON, OHIO, — In one of the most shocking vice-presidential selections in political history, John McCain has tapped Sarah Palin, the 44-year-old first-term governor of Alaska, to be his running mate.

John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin sent shock waves through official Washington on Friday, with Democrats and even some Republicans describing her as an unknown quantity.

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) is lukewarm on Palin, speaking to South Carolina radio, via The Page:

DAYTON, Ohio — This place is packed to the rafters.

I'm currently en route to the Denver airport, but my colleague Victoria McGrane writes in about veep coverage.

Count Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as one of the most surprised that she was chosen as running mate for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

Gov. Tim Pawlenty said this morning that he will he not be in Dayton, Ohio, today and strongly suggested that he won't be John McCain's running mate.

DENVER — Some things just don’t change. Despite new ethics rules, lawmakers, lobbyists and big donors have found plenty of ways to spend time together during the Democratic National Convention. 

LAS VEGAS — This year, Nevada finally ceased to be an afterthought in the Democratic presidential nominating process.

DENVER — As jittery Democrats urge Barack Obama to sharpen his attacks on John McCain, the Democratic presidential nominee faces a delicate balancing act: attacking McCain without damaging what Obama aides refer to as “the brand."

DENVER — Forty-five years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s dramatic call for racial equality in America, Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination to become the first African-American on a major party presidential ticket.

DENVER — Barack Obama has a dream, a dream embodied in a speech, a speech he gave at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night to introduce himself to America.

DENVER — Sen. Barack Obama’s acceptance speech had the soaring language his legions of followers have come to expect — but he filled in the space between his rhetorical peaks with detailed domestic policy plans honed over almost two years of campaigning and eight years of Democratic exile.

DENVER — Joe Biden lived in Scranton, Pa., only until he was 10 years old, but you wouldn’t know it lately from listening to him, his running mate Barack Obama and their surrogates.

Never mind history-in-the-making. It’s all about news cycles.

Barack Obama delivers his acceptance speech at Invesco Field tonight, and you may even get to see it if the networks can pull away from the John McCain VP speculation long enough.

Tonight, John McCain will talk directly to his opponent in a television ad his campaign is airing in battleground states around the time Barack Obama accepts the presidential nomination, McCain's campaign said.

Karl Rove has yet to respond to my request for comment, but he did oblige Fox News for a few questions about my report last night that he contacted Joe Lieberman last week to urge him to contact McCain and take himself out of the veepstakes.

Barack Obama swung by the Denver Athletic Club this morning for a workout in preparation for his much-anticipated speech at Invesco Field this evening.