The president lays out his agenda to Congress and the nation. We’ll hear reaction from Republicans and Democrats on the partisan front lines.

A week from tomorrow, coast to coast, and with everything on the line, the biggest day of presidential primary voting in American history will take place. On Super Tuesday, February 5th, nearly two dozen states are in play — and big ones.
The Democrats are thundering for the big day. Barack Obama is fresh off a [...]

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich was a field marshall in the Republican Revolution. Former senator Gary Hart was a Democratic contender for the presidency.
Now, they’re both saying the country is facing a crisis — and needs a radically new politics that blasts through partisan lines.
Gingrich is still conservative, but says Republicans have failed [...]

New Hampshire was supposed to be a firewall for the Hillary Clinton campaign — the primary stronghold where she would anchor her drive for the White House. Instead, it’s primary day and New Hampshire is a major challenge.
The other kid from Chicago, Barack Obama, has a solid lead in opinion polls. John Edwards is nipping [...]

And so at last, it’s all about Iowa, at least tonight, as Iowa voters line up in party caucuses for the first real votes of the ‘08 presidential campaign. In an extraordinary wide-open election season, candidates have thrown horse shoes and flipped burgers, cocked shotguns and kissed babies.
Now, Iowa stands to deliver a first verdict.
We [...]

It was the Double O Express, as Oprah Winfrey pumped up crowds for Barack Obama on Saturday from Iowa to South Carolina to New Hampshire.
For Hillary Clinton, the sight of Oprah and Obama drives home one of the great surprises — and ironies — of this historic campaign: that the first woman with a real [...]

With President Bush’s popularity in a ditch, and Republicans in disarray, many Democrats on their party’s left feel their moment is now. Americans, they say, are ready to address inequality, to transform healthcare, to remake America’s image abroad — to embrace liberalism.
But what does that word, tainted by decades of abuse from the right — [...]

It’s the first Tuesday in November. A year from today, America picks a new president. Barack Obama may or may not be on that final ballot. The votes that will determine the fate of his candidacy start just weeks from now, in Iowa and New Hampshire.
That short clock is pushing new considerations of Obama and [...]

Round seven in the Democrats’ drumbeat of presidential debates was a slugfest last night. The prime target: frontrunner Hillary Clinton. The attackers: just about everybody else on the stage.
The first primaries are just two months away now. No time to waste. Obama promised fireworks, but seemed mild on the attack. Edwards was on fire about [...]

Senator Chris Dodd wants to be president. He’s already spent 6 years in the U.S. House, and 27 years in the Senate. A Washington outsider he’s not. But in an election where experience might really matter, Dodd says he’s your man.
He draws strength from his family history, stretching back to his dad’s days as a [...]

Hillary Clinton got run over by health care reform politics fourteen years ago. Trounced by drug companies and insurers, by Harry and Louise, by ordinary Americans afraid she would limit their health care choices.
Now, years have passed, nearly 50 million Americans are uninsured, millions more live in fear of losing coverage — and Hillary is [...]