Presidential Campaigns

Herman Cain attempted to further clarify his stance on abortion Friday during an interview on Fox News, saying both that he does "not believe abortion should be legal in this country" but that "you don't know what [a typical family] might do in the heat of the moment."

Cain has been grappling to explain comments he made about abortion in a Wednesday interview on CNN, when he said that "it's not the government's role or anybody else's role to make that decision."

Cain said in the CNN interview that it "ultimately gets down to a choice that that family or that mother has to make, not me as president, not some politician, not a bureaucrat. It gets down to that family."

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Undecided voters were more engaged and attentive during the Republican National Convention (RNC) than during the Democratic National Convention (DNC), according to a media research firm.

Uncommitted voters were most engaged in Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) Sept. 4 acceptance speech. The addresses by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) were the second most engaging programs to uncommitted voters. Nielsen also found that likely voters were 12 percent more attentive to the RNC than to the DNC.

McCain's speech drew a hefty 38.9 million viewers, 500,000 more than the 38.4 million viewers who watched Obama's Invesco Field acceptance speech the week before.

The research was conducted by Nielsen AIG, a firm which studies ads, product placement, and program sponsorship during television programs.

-Michael O'Brien

Howard Wolfson, former communications director for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-N.Y.) presidential campaign, is joining Fox News Channel as a contributor, the TV network announced today.

Wolfson will make his debut Wednesday.

"Howard was part of the inner working circle of Senator Clinton

Democracy for America (DFA), a Democratic activist group founded in 2004 by Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, is telling supporters to drop AT&T and switch to its own wireless phone service.

In an email to supporters today, DFA posed its wireless service as an alternative to AT&T, which donated to President Bush's presidential campaign in the 2000 and 2004 election cycles.

"AT&T must have thought that electing and re-electing Bush/Cheney was good for business. But it wasn't good for you and me. And it definitely wasn't good for the country or the world," Democracy for America Finance Director Rachel Moss wrote in the email. Read more...

John Edwards will be honored alongside rock singer/songwriter/guitarist Elvis Costello in New York City June 9 by the group World Hunger Year (WHY) for his work fighting poverty.

Edwards and Costello will both receive the group's 2008 WHY-Chapin award "for their exemplary work and dedication on issues of hunger and poverty on a local, national and worldwide level," the group said today in a release. Poverty was the central issue of Edwards's 2008 presidential run.

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), who has served on WHY's board of directors for 25 years, will be an honorary chairman of the awards dinner at the Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers.

Here's what the group had to say about Edwards and Costello in its release: Read more...

Don't expect former President Bill Clinton to blog anytime soon, according to Carol Felsenthal's new book, "Clinton In Exile."

Slate reports:

Page 198: Clinton hasn't gotten accustomed to the Internet age. He "does not use a computer or send e-mail, and he certainly has never blogged." According to Kinko's founder Paul Orfalea, both he and the former president "have their e-mails printed out for them."

After the explosion of stories and posts following Hillary Clinton's debunked claim that she landed "under sniper fire" The Hill's Erica Wisniewski dug up the video she shot of the event to give the full context of what the New York Senator said last week at George Washington University.

At a press conference Tuesday Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) said she "made a mistake" by claiming last week she landed "under sniper fire" during a visit to Bosnia as first lady after a video surfaced showing otherwise.

Earlier in the day the Clinton camp was tight-lipped on the matter, but the New York Senator was frank in addressing the matter with reporters.

"I made a mistake. It proves I'm human, which for some people was a revelation," Clinton said.