With the help of one of Washington's best-connected lawyers, Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are negotiating a thicket of complicated issues, like how to repay Clinton's campaign debt and her role at the Democratic convention. ...more

June 26, 2008

"Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America," by Walter R. Borneman (Random House, $30). ...more

June 15, 2008

Former "Saturday Night Live" comedian Al Franken saved his best material for Saturday afternoon at the state Democratic convention, where he beat back worries from some party leaders about his U.S. Senate candidacy and earned a resounding endorsement from party activists. ...more

June 8, 2008

A reasonable solution for counting the votes in Florida's premature primary was reached Saturday by a Democratic Party committee. Florida will be allowed to send all its delegates to the Democratic Convention, but each delegate gets only one-half of a vote. ...more

June 3, 2008

An obscure subset of the Democratic National Committee today could help write the final chapter to Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign. ...more

May 31, 2008

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by two Tampa Democratic Party activists challenging the national party's ban on the Florida Democratic convention delegation. ...more

May 29, 2008

Susan Bennett is a white Tampa lawyer and an early Hillary Clinton backer. She was among the 15,000-plus who attended last week's Barack Obama rally at the St. Pete Times Forum. ...more

May 28, 2008

Rally Size Didn't Matter Regarding "The Audacity Of Hype" (Our Opinion, May 21): ...more

May 28, 2008

Susan Bennett is a white Tampa lawyer and an early Hillary Clinton backer. She was among the 15,000-plus who attended last week's Barack Obama rally at the St. Pete Times Forum. "I supported Hillary, but I'm also a realist," said Bennett, 58. "When I saw him speak (at the Democratic Convention) in 2004, I remember turning to my husband and saying, 'This could be the next (2008) president.' We need to unite the party, and we need a new direction that starts with bringing troops home from Iraq and doing something about health care. It was an easy transition." Then there was Chris, a software engineer. He's a 36-year-old black man who didn't want to give his last name. That's because he was at the Obama rally – when he should have been at work. He called it an "extended lunch hour." He also called it an invaluable experience. ...more

May 23, 2008

Edward Kennedy, a liberal Democratic icon of the Senate and the surviving patriarch of American political royalty, suffered a seizure Saturday at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., and was rushed by helicopter to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, hospital officials said. ...more

May 18, 2008