Barack Obama brought his campaign promise of hope and change to an adoring crowd of about 13,000 at Portland's Memorial Coliseum Friday morning, and scored a key endorsement from former political rival Bill Richardson, the governor of New Mexico. ...

Lieberman, an independent who is a member of the Senate Democrats' tenuous majority, said the endorsement does not signal an intention to leave the Senate caucus and return control to the Republicans. But his endorsement, aside from a ...

John McCain of Arizona, riding a wave of Sunday endorsements from the Register and the Globe, scheduled "a major endorsement" today in New Hampshire ... His aide said the McCain endorsement is "an affirmation of the person, not the ...

By David Brown Barack Obama picked up a key endorsement for president Friday and used Pittsburgh as a launching pad for a six-day push across Pennsylvania as he tries to play catch-up with rival Hillary Clinton in the Keystone State. Obama, ...

By Richard Wolf and David Jackson WASHINGTON -- President Bush's enthusiastic endorsement of John McCain on Wednesday could help the presumptive Republican presidential nominee do two things the Arizona senator must do: raise money and rally ...

Richardson's endorsement could help Obama in the remaining 10 nominating contests between now and June, especially among Latinos, while also providing a nudge for superdelegates _ party leaders and elected officials _ still on the fence ... ...

Hillary Clinton of New York for the Democratic presidential nomination, welcomed today's endorsement from Casey as one of his most meaningful endorsements of the campaign ... Obama, who is trailing badly in Pennsylvania polls in the run-up to the ...

John McCain returned to Washington in triumph on Wednesday, receiving the endorsement of President Bush and moving to integrate his campaign with the Republican National Committee ... McCain declared himself "honored and humbled" to receive Bush's ...

Barack Obama's campaign in the upcoming Pennsylvania primary received a boost Friday with the endorsement of Sen ... " Casey's endorsement was an unexpected boon for ...

" The endorsement by the veteran Massachusetts Democratic senator comes at a pivotal time for Obama, who joined Ted Kennedy, Kennedy's son Rep ... Author Toni Morrison said her endorsement of the Democratic presidential candidate has little to ...

"Let's just say it wasn't one of our better conversations," Richardson said in a Journal interview Friday -- on a day his endorsement was the nation's top political news ... "I told her I had utmost respect for her and the endorsement had ...

So instead of this being an endorsement of Obama as the best candidate for the job, it is more of a chance to grab onto a passing coat tail. One that he thinks now has the opportunity to drag him further up the ladder than Hillary's petty coat ...

" After McCain and his wife, Cindy, arrived, Bush and the senator lunched in the small dining room next to the Oval Office, then emerged for the long-anticipated endorsement by the president in the Rose Garden ... "I appreciate his ...

" The Crist endorsement came 24 hours after that of Senator Mel Martinez of Florida, the former general chairman of the Republican National Committee and a popular figure in the state's Cuban- American community ... A spokesman for Romney, who ...

Kennedy had been seriously considering an endorsement for weeks - a break with his traditional practice of staying clear of primary endorsements ... But, according to allies, when he learned that his niece's editorial endorsement would appear in The ...