That announcement was the latest indication that the president-elect has decided to use the transition period to influence events at a time of crisis, when the current administration appears powerless to stop a slide. "There's no question that Bush is...
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New Chapter' On Climate Change, Obama Says President-Elect Addresses Nation's Governors Calling climate change an urgent challenge, President-elect Barack Obama promised Tuesday that Washington would take a leading role in combating it in the United States...
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Analysts anticipate reform pushes for Medicare and Medicare Advantage under the administration of President-elect Barack Obama. Medicare Advantage, which is run by private insurers and financed by the federal government, drives more than 60 percent of...
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Senator Barack Obama completed a landslide 52%-47% victory over Republican Senator John McCain to become the 44 th President of the United States of America . Rarely do such momentous occasions come in history and the world has indeed witnessed an occasion...
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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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In a 2008 Super Bowl ad, NFL golden boy Tom Brady asked nearly 100 million viewers to text "FIT" to donate $5 to the United Way...Now imagine if President-elect Barack Obama had been able to ask the 100,000 people who showed up at his rally in St...It's...
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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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In an appearance on the “Late Show with David Letterman” Wednesday night, Katie Couric discussed the now-infamous interviews Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin granted her during the presidential campaign. The CBS anchor said that Palin might have been thrown by...
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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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