Geraldine Ferraro, the Democratic congresswoman who, as Walter Mondale's VP pick in 1984, was the first woman to run on a major party presidential ticket, died on Saturday in Boston, reports Reuters, of a blood cancer after a 12-year illness. She was 75. more ›

An interview that former vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro made to a the Southbay local paper, the Daily Breeze, is causing a stir in the Barack Obama campaign. Ferraro, a supporter of Hillary Clinton, told the Breeze reporter, "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept." more ›