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Obama embarks on 67-day sprint to election

DENVER -- Fresh off his historic nominating convention, Democrat Barack Obama is embarking on what likely will be the most important 67 days of his campaign for the White House. Republican John McCain is looking to upstage his rival with the announcement of his running mate. [Full Story]

Obama's breathtaking show transcended politics
NEW YORK -- Barack Obama transcended politics on Thursday in accepting his party's nomination for president during an event that played out on television like a combination of a rock concert and Super Bowl. [full story]
Analysis: Obama spares details, keeps up attacks
DENVER -- Barack Obama, whose campaign theme is "change we can believe in," promised Thursday to "spell out exactly what that change would mean." [full story]
Oprah on Obama: 'I cried my eyelashes off'
DENVER -- Oprah Winfrey is leaving Denver with the candidate she wanted, but reportedly without her eyelashes. [full story]
The kitchen table: Anatomy of a metaphor
DENVER -- The rooms of the modern American household have always crept into campaigns. Politics makes strange bedfellows, for one. The living-room war ended Lyndon Johnson's political career. And everyone keeps saying the economy's headed for the toilet. [full story]
Stars over the moon about Obama's speech
DENVER -- First word on Barack Obama's historic nomination acceptance speech from a bevy of celebrities in attendance was decidedly partisan: "It was excellent," Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie said. "It was amazing." [full story]
Obama tells huge Dem crowd he'll fix Washington
DENVER -- Surrounded by an enormous, adoring crowd, Barack Obama promised a clean break from the "broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush" Thursday night as he embarked on the final lap of his audacious bid to become the nation's first black president. [full story]
More than 80,000 watch Obama accept presidential nomination
DENVER -- Some 84,000 people packed Denver's Invesco Field at Mile High to see Barack Obama make history. [full story]
Obama sketches promise of America
DENVER -- Barack Obama cast his presidential nomination as proof that no dreams are too high, savoring an historic moment for himself and the nation Thursday before embarking on a difficult struggle to break another barrier for a black American. [full story]
Gore accuses McCain of policies to close to Bush
DENVER -- Al Gore told Democrats Thursday night that the 2008 election is close because defenders of the status quo "are desperately afraid of the change Barack Obama represents." And the former vice president said he knows something about close elections. [full story]