Mobile and Baldwin County News
Five days before the presidential election, a Mobile attorney sat on his Oakleigh porch in a funny hat and overheard two trick-or-treaters puzzle over the campaign signs in a white…
Judges, lawyers, party officials and consultants across Mobile and the Eastern Shore delivered a split verdict on Barack Obama's selection of Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate in August…
Asked whom John McCain should choose as a running mate, Mobile and Baldwin County Republicans named Charlie Crist, Mitt Romney, Haley Barbour, Condoleezza Rice — and, more than once, an…
Journalist and Bush biographer Fred Barnes headlined the Alabama Policy Institute's annual fundraiser in Mobile, predicting the president would leave office to hisses and be judged more kindly later.
Barack Obama's Alabama campaign invoked a dormant rule to install its own convention delegates, cutting about 40 candidates from the ballot. Those passed over described hurt, anger and grudging understanding.
Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani's second Mobile visit of the year paired a free public gathering on the Causeway with a high-dollar reception and dinner hosted by the city's GOP…
Asked to name a favorite in the 2008 presidential race, Mobile-area officials, lawyers and civic figures answered with hedges, wish lists and a fair amount of open dissatisfaction with both…
Former Public Service Commissioner Jim Zeigler floated a slate of uncommitted delegates for Alabama's Feb. 5 primary, calling it a lawful way for disappointed conservatives to vote for none of…
By late summer 2007, a striking number of Mobile's civic and business figures had looked over both fields and found nobody who fit. One of them said the ideal candidate…
With the 2008 field still forming, local officeholders, lawyers and pundits named their favorites. A state representative was co-chairing John McCain's Mobile County campaign; a famous oddsmaker had already called…