After wrapping up the Republican nomination for president Tuesday, Sen. John McCain can get to work picking his running mate. In the past, political reporters and partisan pundits probably have overestimated the effect of vice presidential candidates on the outcome of presidential elections.

Two of the three Republicans hoping to be the next state school superintendent say full-day kindergarten is a bad idea.

More than 1,100 GOP activists will gather today at the Arizona Republican Convention at the Phoenix Marriott Mesa in Mesa to pick delegates for the party’s national convention.

Let Willard’s loss — and the primary debacles of Bachmann, Cain, Perry, Trump, Gingrich, Santorum, et al. — be a death knell to the far-too-large wing of the party that is anti-women’s rights, anti-homosexual, anti-minorities, anti-science, anti-evolution, anti-math, anti-education, anti-environment, anti-renewable energy, anti-non-Christians and climate change-denying. A wing that includes those who loudly and vehemently boast about balancing the books by killing PBS, NPR and Planned Parenthood (a combined microscopic fraction of the federal budget) and whose job proudly fails to include worrying about 47 percent of the American population (a group that is mostly the elderly, low-income and/or unemployed).

WASHINGTON - Bruce Springsteen famously was "born in the USA," but he's getting scorned in the U.S. Senate.

Jose de la Isla: Many in the GOP are feeling bullied by fellow Republicans because of their moderate views.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama plans to nominate Sen. Judd Gregg as commerce secretary on Tuesday, the White House confirmed on the eve of the announcement as the New Hampshire Republican disclosed an apparent deal that would keep his seat out of Democratic hands.

Bonnie Erbe, guest commentary

A cadre of Republicans still sore that Sheriff Joe Arpaio did a television commercial for Democrat Janet Napolitano in the 2002 gubernatorial election hope to make him pay a heavy political price when he faces re-election next year.

While President Bush seems to be losing his political touch, the man he beat in the 2000 GOP primaries appears at the top of his game.

August 4, 2004

Five out of seven candidates running in Legislative District 18 have confirmed they will be in attendance for a debate in Tempe on Tuesday.

June 13, 2004

Pinal County officials will face unusually steep competition in countywide elections this fall, say Republicans who are backing four new candidates for the Board of Supervisors and county assessor spots.