Iowa is where Barack Obama’s path to the presidency began. So it was fitting that on the Friday before the American people cast their ballots, Iowa was the spot for one of the Democrat's final campaign rallies.

A University of Kentucky student and another man were arrested Thursday, accused of hanging a life-sized likeness of Barack Obama from a tree on the campus.

Barack Obama's campaign has approached Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel about possibly serving as White House chief of staff, officials said Thursday.

In an interview airing on “NBC Nightly News,” Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday that economic conditions would get worse before they got better no matter who was elected president.

Barack Obama's campaign "infomercial" drew 26.4 million viewers to three major networks, proving modestly more popular than typical prime-time programming, preliminary figures showed Thursday.

The Obamamercial was (above all else) effective. Why? Because it had a very simple objective--making undecided voters comfortable with the experience of a President Obama--and was very savvy about accomplishing it.

Barack Obama, bidding to be the first black president, told Jon Stewart he doesn't believe that white voters will bail on him in the privacy of the voting booth, but could face that conundrum himself during an appearance on "The Daily Show" on Wednesday.

Oct. 30: Late night comics take aim at Obama's primetime address, Palin supporters and Joe the plumber. Msnbc.com's Courtney Hazlett has the Wednesday night wrap up.

The suburbs and towns that ring central Pennsylvania's Harrisburg have been deeply Republican since Lincoln was alive. But Howard Fineman reports strange things are happening there now.

There's little empirical evidence to suggest the so-called "Bradley effect", observed 20 years ago, might reappear next week's national election.