Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama swapped some of the most negative attacks of the campaign two days before the Pennsylvania primary, each unleashing television ads Sunday that accused the other of maintaining ties to special interests they both claim to reject.

This is the last in a series of election forums that have appeared Sundays on this page. For the past several weeks, The Daily Item has posed a question to the three candidates for the U.S. House of Represenatives seat in the 10th Congressional District. Chris Hackett and Dan Meuser are vying for the Republican nomiantion and incumbent Democratic Congressman Chris Carney is unopposed for his party’s nomination in Tuesday’s Primary Election.

While most politicians understand that polling is an inexact science, candidates still lean heavily on poll results to capture snapshots of trends during a campaign.

Call it confidence or arrogance, but Valley Republicans expect the next president to be Sen. John McCain, regardless of whom the Democrats put up this fall.

While many Valley Democrats insist they are embracing a message of unity as Pennsylvania’s primary election nears, results of a telephone survey of randomly selected registered Democrats reveal disparate opinions about the Democratic candidates.

Barack Obama cast his Democratic presidential rival Saturday as a game-player who uses "slash and burn" tactics and will say whatever people want to hear, a sharp jab at her character in the final chapter of the pivotal Pennsylvania primary campaign.

He came out from behind the curtain and strode to the podium, people chanting, whistling, stomping, screaming. Cameras flashing, the Lycoming College gym sweltering, cheers reaching a frenzied pitch.

He came out from behind the curtain and strode to the podium, people chanting, whistling, stomping, screaming. Cameras flashing, the Lycoming College gym sweltering, cheers reaching a frenzied pitch.

The Primary Election Ballot features Democratic nomination races for president, state treasurer and election of delegates for the Democratic National Convention. Links to sample ballots are in this story.

A woman in a wheelchair at a residence for retired nuns told Ethyl Kennedy she once drove through a red light to see her late husband, Robert F. Kennedy.

Hillary Rodham Clinton said emphatically Wednesday night that Barack Obama can win the White House this fall, undercutting her efforts to deny him the Democratic presidential nomination by suggesting he would lead the party to defeat.

Democratic Rep. John Murtha said Wednesday that Republican Sen. John McCain is too old to be president.

Republican Sen. John McCain on Tuesday called for a summer-long suspension of the federal gasoline tax and several tax cuts as the likely presidential nominee sought to stem the public's pain from a troubled economy.

Slightly more than 2,000 voters shifted their allegiance in Union County, and a slight decline in total voter numbers — from 19,986 to 19,808 — was also seen. Democratic registrations increased by 934 voters, while the Republican side saw a decline of 647.

Local politicians are giving Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama the benefit of the doubt after he made some controversial comments about Pennsylvanians last week.

Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are gingerly threading their way between two of the most politically charged numbers in Pennsylvania: the state's almost 1 million licensed hunters and Philadelphia's nearly one-a-day rate of gun murders.

ABC's Charles Gibson spent days behind closed doors preparing to moderate two presidential debates in January, but says he feels "way too laid-back" in advance of Wednesday's session between Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and rival Sen. Barack Obama.

Accused of being elitist, a defiant Sen. Barack Obama lashed out at rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, saying "Shame on her" and mocking her vocal support for gun rights as their political tempest threatened to consume the Democratic presidential race.

Dan Meuser and Chris Hackett have spent a combined $1.5 million of their own money challenging each other for the Republican nomination in the 10th Congressional District in Pennsylvania's April 22 primary election.