Thursday at midnight was the deadline for both candidates to file pre-runoff reports with the FEC detailing their finances through Nov. 12...Chambliss raised $565,000 in contributions of more than $1,000 since Nov. 12. Martin, the former state lawmaker...
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Passions flared in a Maine town on Thursday over a sign in a store asking customers to place bets on an assassination of President-elect Barack Obama. The Town Council in Standish condemned the sign on Thursday in a 6-0 vote...
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More Floridians voted for John McCain than Barack Obama on Election Day, but the Democrat sealed his victory in the state by winning more early and absentee votes. An Associated Press study of 94 percent of the state's total shows the Republican beat...
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Joe Lieberman came out of his day of reckoning quite well. “This is the beginning of a new chapter,” the Connecticut senator said after a private Democratic caucus meeting held November 18 in the historic Old Senate Chamber. The meeting was held to decide...
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More than three decades after he first appeared before the panel as a 27-year-old Vietnam veteran-turned-antiwar protester, Senator John F. Kerry will be named chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, giving him enormous influence over President-elect...
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Jesse Jackson's great phrases, "The hands that picked the cotton, and the hands that picked the lettuce, just picked the new president." According to the exit polls, if whites alone had voted, John McCain would be president-elect. That gap was erased...
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Colorado Sen. John McCain could have been president of Garfield County. Garfield County voters apparently favored McCain over President-elect Barack Obama by just two votes. McCain received 11,359 votes and Obama received 11,357 votes in the county,...
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The Illinois Senate's Republican leader credits his overall good health for his quick return to the Capitol after a stroke last month. Frank Watson of Greenville is still undergoing several hours of therapy daily but is regaining use of his right side...
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The head of the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation has been named to a position on President-elect Barack Obama ( web news bio ) 's transition team. Thomas Perez will head a transition committee on justice and civil rights issues.
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Nato's military committee began its annual meeting in Brussels on November 19, in which over 60 military commanders from all member countries of the alliance will participate, including countries from the Partnership for Peace and Mediterranean Dialog...
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