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News Source: Dallas Observer
| about 1 year ago
Joe the Plumber' gets a jolt as he steps into the limelight 12:00 AM CDT on Friday, October 17, 2008 "Joe the Plumber," heralded by John McCain in Wednesday's debate as a hardworking American who'd be hurt by Barack Obama's tax policies, found the...
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News Source: BBC
| about 1 year ago
When people look back at this US presidential election, it is unlikely they will be talking about the great autumnal debates of 2008...The formats, which were agreed by the campaigns, did not exactly help. In the first two encounters there was little...
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News Source: The Globe and Mail
| about 1 year ago
Mr. Wurzelbacher cannot have expected the attention he is now receiving when he asked a question of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama during a campaign stop in Toledo on Sunday. He wanted to know about Mr. Obama's tax plan, and why it...
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News Source: Indian Express
| about 1 year ago
ont Size Reuters Posted: Oct 17, 2008 at 1044 hrs IST US Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama arrives at a campaign event in Londonderry, N.H. New York, October 17: : Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama warned his supporters to...
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News Source: Dallas Observer
| about 1 year ago
Allies like Sen. Joe Lieberman, the former Democratic vice presidential nominee, scored the debate an unequivocal win for Mr. McCain, saying, "We turned the corner in the debate last night...Analysts and instant polls gave a more mixed picture,...
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News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| about 1 year ago
The third and final debate between Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain again produced no campaign-defining moments in their battle for the presidency. One thing it did provoke was probably a strong desire by many voters to...
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News Source: International Business Times
| about 1 year ago
The Washington Post endorsed Democrat Barack Obama on Oct. 17: The nominating process this year produced two unusually talented and qualified presidential candidates. There are few public figures we have respected more over the years than Sen. John...
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News Source: BBC
| about 1 year ago
Joe Wurzelbacher is an Ohio man thinking of buying a plumbing business who has briefly come to prominence in the US presidential debate. Last week, when Democratic candidate Barack Obama came to his hometown of Holland, Ohio, Mr Wurzelbacher told...
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News Source: The Scotsman
| about 1 year ago
Obama's tax plans had become a key issue in the presidential election even before the senator's celebrated encounter with Ohio's Joe the Plumber. Centrepiece to the Democrat's promise of "change" is what amounts to a wealth transfer from the rich to...
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News Source: The Scotsman
| about 1 year ago
the Republicans' presidential election campaign has found a new hero. Mr Sixpack, the everyman invoked on the stump alongside "hockey moms" in speeches made by vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as the ordinary guy chasing the American Dream,...