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John McCain and Sarah Palin hit the stump in Wisconsin and Michigan

The battle begins

Presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama, back on the campaign trail after their party conventions, clashed over the ailing US economy.

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McCain: I'll fight for American values

Friday, 5 September 2008

John McCain urged Americans to fight for their country as he accepted the Republican Party's nomination.

McCain uses patriotism in bid to steal the show

Friday, 5 September 2008

Nominee tells party that he fell in love with his country while being held prisoner in someone else’s, as he tries to outshine running mate

Cheers and jeers at Palin speech in Humpy's Great Alaskan Alehouse

Friday, 5 September 2008

Humpy's Great Alaskan Alehouse on Anchorage's 6th Avenue was heaving as Sarah Palin delivered her barnstorming speech to the Republican Convention thousands of miles away in St Paul, Minnesota. Grizzled boat operators rubbed shoulders with fishermen and big-game hunters in the rowdy bar as the Alaskan Governor's address beamed down to them from the bar's giant screens.

Palin takes swipe at Obama

Thursday, 4 September 2008

John McCain's running mate came out fighting as she sought to dismiss questions about her experience.

Leonard Doyle: In the snows of Alaska, reputation of Palin is still whiter than white

Thursday, 4 September 2008

The skater moves swiftly across the ice, slamming the puck past the goalkeeper's face into the back of the net. Wasilla's hockey moms and dads erupt while players smash headlong into their opponents. Dog-sledding, moose hunting and snowmobiles, this is the town where the Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin grew up. Only politics can rival hockey here as the favourite contact sport, and as locals testify, she excels at both. The tactics she learnt at the same community ice rink have fuelled her meteoric rise to national prominence and the main stage at the Republican convention last night.

McCain's his own man, says Bush

Wednesday, 3 September 2008

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain is an "independent man who thinks for himself", President George Bush said today.

McCains show off adopted daughter Bridget

Wednesday, 3 September 2008

The unlikely family tableau at the Republican National Convention: there was Cindy McCain, clasping hands with her adopted 17-year-old daughter Bridget.

Republicans prepare to welcome Palin

Tuesday, 2 September 2008

Republican loyalists will welcome Sarah Palin to their presidential ticket in a show of appreciation that will mask deepening concerns that her unorthodox family background is becoming a liability for the party.

How late change of heart came back to haunt Republicans

Tuesday, 2 September 2008

When the Democrats were gathering in Denver to anoint Barack Obama and Joe Biden as their nominees last week, Sarah Palin was just one of many names on a long list of potential running mates for their Republican rival, John McCain, and seemingly a long way down that list.

Patrick Cockburn: White House strategy is to help McCain win in November

Tuesday, 2 September 2008

Political events in Iraq are seldom what they seem. The hand- over by the US military of control of Anbar province, once the heartland of the Sunni rebellion, to Iraqi forces is a case in point. The US will keep 25,000 American soldiers in Anbar, so the extent to which the Iraqi government will really take over is debatable. But the future of Anbar is a crucial pointer to the fate of Iraq. It is a vast area and one of the few parts of Iraq that is overwhelmingly Sunni.

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