Jim Tankersley

by Jim Tankersley The voters have spoken! Well, not in Iowa yet – you've got a half-day of waiting for that still – but in the virtual world of social...

By Jim Tankersley Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) isn't playing heavily in Iowa, though he'll make a cameo caucus-eve appearance tonight. He's spent the week in New Hampshire, where he's increasingly...

by Jim Tankersley NASHUA, N.H. -- Soccer moms and NASCAR dads are so 2004. As Iowa and New Hampshire prepare to start winnowing the most wide-open presidential primary field in...

By Jim Tankersley TILTON, N.H. – Snow flurries have put the Straight Talk Express on ice, but Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is pushing on with a full afternoon of campaigning...

By Jim Tankersley NASHUA, N.H. -- An eerie calm has settled over America's kick-off primary state this New Year's Eve, and it has little to do with the fresh snow...

A year of recalls and lead scares in the toy industry is spurring Congress toward the largest overhaul in decades of the nation's product safety watchdog. Lawmakers from both parties...

By Jim Tankersley Iowa always seems crowded this time of (presidential election) year, but this year's campaign crush looks like one for the record books. Democrats' top three contenders have...

By Jim Tankersley This holiday season, Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) is taking his family over the river and through the woods ... to the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Roskam, a freshman...

by Jim Tankersley Republican Mike Huckabee took his presidential campaign for a quick pheasant-hunting expedition in Iowa on Wednesday, and at one point, a reporter asked why he hadn't invited...

By Jim Tankersley John Edwards is finishing his Iowa campaign with a heavy dose of the middle-class-focused populist message his campaign believes has left him tied for first among Democratic...