A would-be presidential running mate for John McCain is getting married after being dogged for years by homosexuality rumours.

Charlie Crist, the governor of Florida, became engaged on Thursday to Carole Rome, a New York socialite.
They had been seeing each other for nine months and speculation was rife about their future, not least because of its [...]

Minnesota prosecutors charged a nineteen-year-old college student with a felony for bribery and solicitation, all because of an e-bay posting. A journalism student at the University of Minnesota tried to sell his vote on e-bay.

University of Minnesota student Max Sanders posted an auction on the popular website in May.
In the e-bay [...]

Tired of having his patriotism questioned, the Democratic candidate has made Old Glory a major visual element of his campaign.
By Peter Nicholas
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 5, 2008
BUTTE, MONT. — Barack Obama, who once considered flag pins a shallow symbol, can’t surround himself with enough patriotic trappings these days.
At the [...]

ATLANTA — He has been called a spoiler. A wannabe Ralph Nader. A thorn in the side of Sen. John McCain and the Republican establishment.
None of it bothers Bob Barr, the former Republican congressman from Georgia turned Libertarian Party presidential candidate, who gleefully recounted what he says a group of Republicans told him at a [...]

WASHINGTON — How important is military service in this presidential election?
Republican nominee John McCain has a vaunted military record. Democrat Barack Obama has none. But four months out from the voting, Obama is ahead in national surveys.
History shows that whether a candidate has military experience rarely determines who’ll win election to the nation’s highest office. [...]

Barack Obama secured a loan on his $1.65 million Chicago mansion at a discounted rate that could have saved him more than $300 per month, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
The newspaper reported that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee locked down a $1.32 million loan from Northern Trust at an interest rate of 5.625 percent in [...]

Associated Press - July 4, 2008 7:43 PM ET
BUTTE, Mont. (AP) - On this Fourth of July, Barack Obama is paying tribute to a nation in which the son of a single mother could find himself to be a potential president.
At what was described as a “family picnic” for hundreds of people in Butte, [...]

Democrats and Faith

Obama’s challenge: getting Democratic secularists on board.
 
It was a remarkable, moving speech by a presumptive Democratic nominee for president on promoting faith-based solutions to urgent human needs.
“The men and women who work in faith-and-values-based organizations,” he explained, “are driven by their spiritual commitment; to serve their God, they have sustained the drug-addicted, the [...]

One week after Sen. Hillary Clinton made a public show of unity with Sen. Barack Obama, a new survey suggests supporters of the New York senator are increasingly less likely to follow her lead.

Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama appear at a unity rally in Unity, New Hampshire, in June.

A growing number of Clinton supporters [...]