AFP - Republican and Democratic presidential hopefuls hit the campaign trial Friday wooing voters with competing pledges of change as the starting gun fired on the last lap of the White House race.

AFP - The economy may be the number one issue in the White House race, but the Republican National Convention has yet to dwell on the troubles of Americans trying to make ends meet.

CQPolitics.com - The back-to-back Democratic and Republican extragavanzas gave both parties a chance to put their best foot forward as the general election campaign gets underway. If their competing efforts are a wash, the advantage will remains with the Democrats as far as the push to expand their congressional majorities.

AP - The Republican National Convention's dominant theme of John McCain as war hero was reinforced with a documentary-style film shown to convention delegates before the senator came to the stage to accept his party's presidential nomination.

Bloomberg - Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The site of one of the worst U.S. bridge disasters served as a backdrop yesterday for House Republicans seeking more highway money over the opposition of President George W. Bush and presidential nominee John McCain.

AFP - Vice presidential pick Sarah Palin was Wednesday aiming to quell a raging personal and political storm with her high-stakes primetime speech to the Republican National Convention.

AP - A leading Democratic lawmaker has made public a secret Bush administration letter that says the U.S. has the right to immediately stop nuclear trade with India if that country conducts an atomic test.