Election 2008

President Barack Obama's savvy use of technology during the 2008 campaign helped pave the way to the White House, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) acknowledged.

After the vivid partisan wrangling on "The View" during the 2008 presidential race became water-cooler fodder, producers realized they had hit a rich vein.

Sen John McCain (R-AZ) has been named the "fastest falling" Google search this year.

A new poll by Public Policy Polling shows that 52% of Republicans believe that Obama did not really win the 2008 election.

While much attention has been paid to the feud between the Fox News Channel and the White House, the Obama administration is now facing criticism of a different sort from Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann and other progressive hosts on MSNBC.

Advocates of meaningful campaign finance laws are waiting with great trepidation for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in a case that challenges a 60-year-old ban on corporate contributions to candidates for federal office.

A look at progressive voter contact methods shows how data-mining and targeting operations played a role in the election of Barack Obama.

The question at the heart of one of the biggest Supreme Court cases this year is simple: What constitutional rights should corporations have?

Corporate spending limits in US political campaigns may be too broad and silence free-speech rights of small businesses, Supreme Court conservatives said on Wednesday. But the court's four liberals, including new Justice Sonia Sotomayor, said more harm than good could be done by overturning precedents upholding the restrictions on corporations and labor unions.

The Supreme Court will cut short its summer break in early September to hear a new argument in a momentous case that could transform the way political campaigns are conducted.