Since the end of the Democratic primary Barack Obama has faced a barrage of negative advertising that has cost him his lead, and the turned the 2008 presidential election into a tie. Below are five things that Obama can do to get his lead back.

With recent polls showing that John McCain leads in Indiana and North Carolina and Barack Obama leading in Pennsylvania and Michigan the electoral map is starting to l

A quick update on the Obama VP situation:

Over at MSNBC's "First Read," they are reporting that Senator Joe Biden, the front runner for Obama's VP in many people's minds, had a very interesting three-minute interaction with some reporters who were camped out on his front lawn this afternoon.

A just released poll from the LA Times and Bloomberg shows that the race between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain continues to get tighter, Obama now holds a narrow two point lead.

While addressing the annual VFW convention in Orlando, FL today, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama fought back against attacks on his patriotism, and laid out his foreign policy vision.

After returning home from his weekend visit to the Republic of Georgia, Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) said that Russia’s invasion of Georgia was based on false claims of atrocities, and that this was one of the most significant events to occur in Europe since the end of communism.

The Obama campaign has seized on an answer that John McCain gave at the Saddleback Forum on Saturday defining the line between middle class and rich as income over $5 million a year.

Steve Clemons of "The Washington Note" said that sources close to Senator Barack Obama have informed him Obama has decided on his VP candidate, though no name was divulged.

Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) and Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) were on CBS’s Face the Nation today debating the Georgia-Russia conflict. Bayh said that John McCain went too far by proclaiming that we are all Georgians now, and praised Obama's foreign policy judgment.

In what is some fascinating timing to say the least, Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) is in the Republic of Georgia this weekend to get the facts on the situation there and meet with President Saakashvili, the Georgian Prime Minister Lado Gurgenidze, and the U.S. Ambassador to Georgia John Tefft.