United States Senator Edmund Sixtus Muskie (1914-1996), the 1968 Democratic vice-presidential nominee and briefly a presidential candidate in 1972, was one of the key congressional leaders in formulating national policy on urban affairs and the...

At 6 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 7, Barry Adelman, the executive producer of the Golden Globes ceremony for eight years, gathered his staff in the Santa Monica offices of Dick Clark Productions to announce that he had not been able to come to terms with...

Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead in the early polls may not be that reassuring if history is any guide. Republican hopeful Rudy Giuliani, however, is sitting pretty.For at least three decades, Republicans have been far better than Democrats in early polls at getting behind the candidates...

Gallup polling over the past three decades shows Republican front-runners usually win their party's nomination, but Democrats do not. Some elections:1972-DemocratsFebruary 1971: Edmund Muskie, 26 percent; Edward Kennedy, 25; Hubert Humphrey, 21; John Lindsay and George McGovern, each at 5.McGovern won the nomination and lost...

Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards officially announced his candidacy for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination in late December. Edwards is a trial lawyer who was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1998. But he only served one term, as he didn't seek reelection in...