GOP drops Ariz. TV ad campaign
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Republicans signaled retreat Thursday in their battle to retain an Arizona congressional seat, dropping plans for nonstop television advertisements through Election Day on behalf of GOP contender Randy Graf.
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Actor and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson on Tuesday announced that he was dropping his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Sen. John McCain's top political strategists stepped down Tuesday from their posts with the Arizona Republican's presidential campaign that has come under fire for poor management and lackluster fundraising.
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PHOENIX -- When residents of Maricopa, Ariz., south of Phoenix, vote in the presidential primaries Tuesday, it will be against a backdrop of vacant storefronts and sprawling, terra-cotta-roofed subdivisions that are studded with for-sale signs as far as the eye can see.
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Arizona Congressman John Shadegg has announced he won't seek re-election, becoming the latest Republican to step aside before the November elections.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has decided to pull his advertising from South Carolina, where he was hoping to take on Mike Huckabee and John McCain, and from Florida, where Rudy Giuliani has been spending time and money.
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President Bush, Sen. John Kerry and their political parties are spending nearly &#36;40 million on TV ads in the final week of the presidential campaign as they adjust their strategies in a shrinking battleground.
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Since President Bush's approval rating sank to the lowest level of his presidency in May, nearly six in 10 of his appearances helping Republican candidates have been closed to all media coverage.
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GOP candidate bows out of nomination race, backs front-runner and longtime friend John McCain.
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N.Y.U. is dropping a controversial ad campaign aimed at raising awareness of childrenâs mental health disorders.
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Voters weary of campaign advertising will get a reprieve Monday in the political equivalent of a moment of silence.
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The show will go on, but the top  Republican presidential contenders will not be there -- and  they are hearing plenty of criticism of their decision to skip  a debate on Thursday focused on minority issues.
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Rasmussen Reports - Arizona Senator John McCain&#39;s (R) support among Likely Republican Primary Voters has slipped to the lowest level ever recorded since Rasmussen Reports began tracking the race shortly after last November&#39;s election.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt  Romney&#39;s campaign distanced itself on Tuesday from involvement  in a Web site that attacked rival Fred Thompson in the 2008  White House race.
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Rep. Tom Tancredo, who built his longshot presidential campaign on opposition to illegal immigration, dropped out Thursday and endorsed Republican rival Mitt Romney as a man who would carry on the fight.
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Republicans who were once cozy with President Bush are distancing themselves from both the president and their party in campaign ads.
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In Arizona, one House candidate called party officials idiots. In Rhode Island, ad-makers turned a Senate hopeful into a political pinata.