Gary W. Hart (born 1936) came to national attention as a political campaign organizer, a two-term U.S. senator, and a presidential candidate. Gary Warren Hart was born on November 28, 1936, in Ottawa, Kansas, an agricultural community where his father...

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...

Howard Kurtz reports that Hillary Clinton’s “senior advisors have grown convinced that the media deck is stacked against them.” In his piece, Kurtz largely comes down on Clinton’s side, although he allows that “sometimes the Clinton complaints go too far.”But Kurtz charges that journalists: have...

9 a.m. Former New Jersey governor Thomas Kean and former Colorado senator Gary Hart will speak at a conference on terrorism at the New York University School of Law, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South. 10 a.m. City Council members will announce the restoration of...