The journey could not have been less likely.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin released a medical summary from her doctor late last night, only hours before the polls opened.

With less than 24 hours to go before the presidential election, Sarah Palin still has not released her medical records despite her campaign’s earlier pledges to do so.

The one thing you can say about Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman is that he’s a survivor.

Sen. Chuck Hagel, the Nebraska Republican who has become a pariah in his own party, has been publicly criticizing John McCain’s vice-presidential pick, while his wife, Lilibet, attended the final presidential debate as Michelle Obama’s guest.

When Colin Powell announced his support of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama’s candidacy on Meet the Press Sunday, he was distancing himself not just from his party, but from his own son.

A Florida billionaire and top fund-raiser for John McCain has been accused of “a reprehensible form of war profiteering” by the chairman of a Congressional investigative committee.

Neither John McCain, nor Barack Obama could claim they exercised leadership on the bailout plan, whose rejection by rank-and-file lawmakers yesterday drove markets to historic lows.

The vultures are already circling. Rudy Giuliani is positioning his international law firm to get a stake in the proposed $700-billion bailout of Wall Street.

Pfotenhauer honed her skills as a conservative poster-girl by working her way up through the trenches – apprenticing herself as a young, graduate student to conservative economic star Walter E. Williams at George Mason University, working for the Republican National Committee, and then learning political hardball as in-house lobbyist for Koch Industries, the world’s largest private company run by conservative mogul Charles G. Koch.

As the former head of the Senate Banking Committee, Gramm led the charge in 1999 to repeal a Depression-era banking regulation law that some economists say contributed to the subprime mortgage crisis.

Democratic fund-raiser Lynn Forester de Rothschild has spent several months bemoaning Hillary Clinton’s failed bid for the presidential nomination. Today she went further, throwing her support behind GOP nominee John McCain.

It looks like Andrew McCain got out just in the nick of time.The son of GOP presidential nominee John McCain resigned as a director of troubled Silver State Bancorp just five weeks before regulators shut down the bank.

The owner of the New York Jets and heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune has raised millions for John McCain’s presidential campaign. Not surprisingly, he was treated like a star at the GOP convention.

The prime-time acceptance speech to be delivered tonight by Republican presidential nominee John McCain has been crafted by a man described as the candidate’s best friend, as well as his Boswell.

One of the more contentious questions dogging Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is whether she improperly used her gubernatorial power to pressure a state official to fire her ex-brother-in-law, a state trooper, who was involved in a bitter custody fight with her sister.