Sarah Palin’s aggressive lobbying activities during her tenure as a mayor may underscore her differences with the presumptive Republican nominee.

Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska since 2006, is John McCain’s choice for his vice-presidential running mate. The selection is considered a high-risk, but also high-reward gamble to woo conservatives, as well as female voters who may feel alienated by Barack Obama’s defeat of Hillary Clinton.

In the two months since the man nicknamed “the bullet” took charge, John McCain’s campaign has grown harder-edged and more combative, relentlessly attacking Barack Obama’s perceived assets, including his promise to be a change agent.

People Magazine’s sexiest man of the year, Matt-Damon, is also the face of the ONE Campaign; a non-profit organization that raises public awareness about the global issues of hunger, poverty, and disease.

A new video from Brave New Films and The Real McCain website postulates that John McCain doesn’t care about the mortgage crisis.

The co-founder of one of the leading hook-up websites in the gay community, Manhunt.net, has been outed as a McCain supporter.

Mega-church pastor Rick Warren will accomplish tomorrow what no one else has been able to do: He will bring John McCain and Barack Obama together on the same stage (albeit sequentially) to be grilled about their faith, leadership and compassion.

For months, Barack Obama’s website has advertised ‘Republicans for Obama’ buttons, but there have been few signs of mass GOP defection. Now, Republicans for Obama has been organized to reach out to disillusioned GOP voters.

One of John McCain’s latest anti-Obama ads is alienating at least one of his supporters: Kathy Hilton, mother of Paris.

Randy Scheunemann, now Sen. John McCain’s top foreign policy aide, was a key member of the circle of advisors around Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi exile who used false intelligence to sell the war.

Sen. Barack Obama may be the only smoker running for president, but the occasional snapshot of him taking a puff has not endeared him to the powerful tobacco lobby.

T. Boone Pickens is spending $58 million on his national marketing campaign to promote alternative energy sources like wind for electricity and natural gas for cars. In the two weeks since he announced his effort, the stock market value of his company that supplies natural gas for vehicles has increased by about twice that amount.

The same Phil Gramm who this week said the economy is not as bad as people think and that we’ve “become a nation of whiners” once tried to peddle so-called “death bonds” to the state of Texas and its teacher pension fund.

Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon has a former Oklahoma governor (Frank Keating) and U.S. Senator (Don Nickles) on his Oklahoma City-based company’s board of directors. That seems only fitting. McClendon’s great uncle, Robert S. Kerr, co-founded Kerr-McGee and served as Oklahoma governor and senator.

John McCain rearranged his inner circle yesterday, putting political veteran Steve Schmidt in charge. Although Rick Davis will continue to hold the title of campaign manager, Schmidt will have near total control of day-to-day operations.

MTV is getting political. The network, which has long been an advocate of encouraging young voters, is now accepting political advertisements for the first time.

Barack Obama goes to Los Angeles tonight for a star-studded campaign fundraiser at the Los Angeles Music Center.

Is Charlie Black merely stating the obvious, or is he showing his roots?

When Arizona Sen. John McCain said last week that he would veto “every single beer - bill with earmarks,” it seemed more than a mere slip of the tongue.

Ross Perot missed his calling. Instead of a billionaire entrepreneur, he should have been a teacher.