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.

For months during the heated contest for the Democratic presidential nomination, Mark J. Penn was the Hillary Clinton adviser everyone loved to hate.

Frederick M. Baron was there for John Edwards in the past, giving and raising lots of money and doing other favors like letting the Democratic presidential candidate use his private jet.

What’s the value of a celebrity endorsement in a political campaign? In the case of Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama, about 1 million votes.

JibJab has news: “It’s Time for Some Campaign!” Borrowing the melody and the refrain of the Bob Dylan song, “The Times They are A Changin’,” JibJab has launched its first flash animation video of the non-primary, presidential season.

Patti Solis Doyle today became the first high-profile member of Hillary Clinton’s organization to take an official role in Barack Obama’s campaign.

An ongoing investigation of offshore investments handled by the Swiss bank UBS may have major repercussions in the U.S.

No woman in the Hillary Clinton camp, other than the candidate herself, is tougher than Lynn Forester de Rothschild.

A relatively obscure Chicago charitable fund and a 1960s radical turned college professor have become headaches for Sen. Barack Obama.

Mark J. Penn, one of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s key and most controversial advisers, is leaving her campaign.