Barack Obama, gunning for a national landslide, now leads in four states won by President Bush in 2004 and is essentially tied with John McCain in two other Republican states, according to new AP-GfK battleground polling.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden told Florida supporters Tuesday that their state could determine the winner of the presidential election and they should vote early.

Doubts about John McCain’s chances for the presidency grew louder among fellow Republicans on Tuesday as a White House race largely focused on Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania entered its final week.

Barack Obama and John McCain both made it a point to stop by the Parksdale Farm Market for Jim Meeks’ strawberry shortcake and milkshakes as they hopped across central Florida.

Michelle Latimore fervently hopes Democrat Barack Obama is elected president, but she won’t be voting for him.

As many as 69 voters in Sarasota County were sent absentee ballots that omitted a hotly contested Florida Senate race.

Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.

Early voting begins this week in Florida.

The misadventures of Joe the Plumber were just the latest stumble for Republican John McCain as he veers from one idea to another in a thus-far elusive quest to slow Barack Obama’s momentum.

Medicare has become a new focal point in the presidential campaign, with Democratic nominee Barack Obama accusing Republican John McCain of seeking “cuts in benefits, eligibility, or both.“

Joe the Plumber said Thursday he doesn’t have a license and doesn’t need one.

The FBI is investigating whether the community activist group ACORN helped foster voter registration fraud around the nation before the presidential election.

Florida’s governor says his fellow Republicans may be exaggerating claims of voter fraud in the state.

A newspaper investigation has revealed that more than 30,000 Florida felons who by law should have been stripped of their right to vote remain registered to cast ballots in this presidential battleground state.

Republican John McCain vowed Sunday to “whip” Democratic rival Barack Obama’s “you-know-what” when the two presidential candidates meet Wednesday in their final televised debate.