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Romney Focused On Michigan

As CBS News' Scott Conroy reports, Mitt Romney is digging in for the long haul. Romney is now seeking more money and vowing to win the Michigan primary, hoping a win there would rejuvenate his presidential campaign following disappointing second-place finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Giuliani: Ignore The Media

Rudy Giuliani has a new ad out that criticizes the press corps for treating the presidential election like a sporting event. It began running today in Florida, perhaps the most crucial state for Giuliani in his quest for the Republican nomination.

Outside Group Highlights DuMond Case In New Spot

(AP)An ad airing tonight in South Carolina features the mother of a woman who was raped and murdered by Wayne DuMond, a man whose crimes have become a part of the presidential campaign of Mike Huckabee - for all the wrong reasons.

Hillary The Movie, Now In Courtrooms

Judges are now deciding whether a movie critical of Hillary Clinton and the ads promoting it constitute political advertising.

Starting Gate: Suddenly Shifting Strategy

(CBS/AP)For most of 2007, Michigan's primary has been an afterthought at best. But after Iowa and New Hampshire produced different Republican winners - neither named Mitt Romney - next Tuesday's contest suddenly looms large in the GOP race.

Starting Gate: A Race Within A Race Within A Debate

(AP)If you want a clear snapshot of the strategies the Republican presidential candidates are pursuing in this wide-open race, just watch or read a transcript of last night's debate in South Carolina. Just about every one laid out their road maps for the next week.

For Obama And Clinton, Endorsements Won And Debated

Barack Obama has been piling up the endorsements lately: John Kerry, Nevada unions, and now, according to the Associated Press, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano and two-time presidential candidate and former Colorado Democratic Senator Gary Hart.*

McCain's Daughter, A Michigan Ad Fight, And Rudy In Spanish

In South Carolina eight years ago, a whispering campaign suggesting that John McCain had fathered an illegitimate black baby may have been a factor in sinking his presidential campaign. A mailer sent out during that period used McCain's actual daughter, who McCain adopted from Bangladesh in 1993, to support the fraudulent claim.

Starting Gate: Race And Gender Unavoidable In '08

(CBS/AP)"I don't think this campaign is about gender," Hillary Clinton said in a nationally televised talk show yesterday, "and I sure hope it's not about race." For most of the past week, the Democratic primary contest has been about both, of course. And, really, wasn't that always going to turn out to be the case? When Clinton complained that the male candidates had banded together against her following a particularly poor debate performance, she was roundly criticized for playing the "gender" card and casting herself as an unlikely victim. In Iowa, Barack Obama won the support of more women than men in his victory there. But women rallied to Clinton's side in New Hampshire, giving her their votes in the kind of wide margins that had been expected. Whether it was her widely-reported teary-eyed moment on the eve of the primary, sisterhood or contrarianism, Clinton erased what appeared to be a large Obama lead virtually overnight. For a year, journalists have visited African American barbershops and hair salons in South Carolina probing for the mood among the crucial segment of the Democratic vote in the state. Black voters are expected to cast up to half of the votes in the January 26th primary. The Clintons have enjoyed tremendous support among black voters - Bill Clinton is famously known as the "first black president." Now Mrs. Clinton finds herself locked in a tight campaign with someone who could fulfill that role - and rob her of an equally historic opportunity. The Clintons can't be surprised that recent comments emanating from their camp are getting the kind of attention they are. Hillary Clinton's statement that it was President Johnson who made the Civil Rights Act a reality may have buttressed her argument that political experience counts but it also appeared to denigrate Martin Luther King Jr. Bill Clinton's "fairy tale" remark and the apparent re-insertion of Obama's past drug use combined to create the kind of bitter back-and-forth we saw throughout the weekend. If we've learned anything over the course of the first two contests of 2008, it's that voters will decide what the campaign will be about. But gender and race are undeniably a major part of the Democratic primary contest. Nobody should pretend differently.

Edwards' Daughter In Minor Accident

Cate Edwards, daughter of Democratic candidate John Edwards, was unharmed following a minor accident in Chapel Hill, North Carolina Friday afternoon, according to her father's campaign. The AP reports that the car she was driving was hit by another driver, who was cited for driving impaired among other charges. In 1996, Edwards' 16-year-old son Wade died in an automobile accident when the Jeep he was driving flipped over after strong winds forced it off the road.