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News Source: The Nation
| about 1 year ago
The new Washington Post-ABC News poll is out, and the numbers are astounding. No, we're not talking about Barack Obama's lead, although let's be clear that a 53-42 advantage over John McCain among likely voters -- and an even stronger 54-41 lead...
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News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| about 1 year ago
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton offered a Democratic rejoinder to the Republican chant of "drill, baby, drill." Said the one-time presidential candidate: "Jobs, baby, jobs." Campaigning for her once bitter rival Barack Obama in Pennsylvania , the New...
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News Source: The Daily Herald
| about 1 year ago
Democrat Barack Obama, bidding to extend his lead in the polls, proposed Monday to put home foreclosures on hold and give tax breaks to businesses that create jobs, while Republican opponent John McCain issued veiled but stinging criticism of the...
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News Source: Miami Herald
| about 1 year ago
The first back-to-back political conventions in half a century gave Americans a blur of late-summer political activity that nominated the two major-party presidential candidates, unveiled the vice-presidential running mates, and laid out their...
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News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| about 1 year ago
Republican John McCain pledged to fight for a new direction for the country in an energetic new campaign stump speech Monday that sought to distance him from the economic policies of President Bush . "We cannot spend the next four years as we have...
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News Source: Democracy Now
| about 1 year ago
The McCain campaign’s strategy of repeatedly invoking Senator Obama’s connection to former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers seems to have had one indubitable effect. It has riled up crowds of McCain and Palin supporters to a point that...
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News Source: Al Jazeera
| about 1 year ago
John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, has told supporters that he wants a "respectful" campaign after a series of stinging attacks on Barack Obama, his Democratic rival. McCain made the remarks on Sunday as he tried to encourage...
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News Source: The Journal-World
| about 1 year ago
Sarah Palin’s statement that Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama is “palling around with terrorists” concerns Robert Rowland. “It is both a ridiculous comment and a dangerous comment,” Rowland, professor of communication studies at...
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News Source: The Columbus Dispatch
| about 1 year ago
Sarah Palin caged the pit bull and put on the lipstick tonight, taking it easy on Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama for the first time in more than a week during a campaign event in an eastern Ohio farm field. The Republican vice...
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News Source: Taiwan News
| about 1 year ago
Republican John McCain dialed back personal attacks on Democrat Barack Obama over the weekend, but vowed he would "whip" his opponent's "you know what" when they clash this week in their final presidential debate. McCain has lost ground in polls with...