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submitted by AB 77 weeks 3 days 2 hours 59 minutes ago
Does Google want to be the 51st state this election season? It sure looks that way. The Mountain View search-engine giant and its wildly popular video-sharing site, YouTube, can't be missed if you want to be president.
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submitted by Mr X 10 weeks 3 days 21 hours 31 minutes ago
Senator John McCain toiled for years to push a campaign finance overhaul through Congress. After the measure finally passed, Trevor Potter, a lawyer and vigorous advocate for reforming the system, was instrumental in defending the law from challenges and pressing for strict enforcement.
Now, as Mr....(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 10 weeks 3 days 21 hours 34 minutes ago
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 20 -- An article about health care published in an obscure journal led to a new skirmish Saturday between the campaigns of Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain over who should be trusted with the ailing economy. The article included a...(more)
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submitted by Christine 54 weeks 5 days 11 hours 47 minutes ago
N A wintry November 12 years ago, a first-term French president brought weeks of chaos to the streets and paralysis to the railways by trying to end the country’s generous “special regimes” for public-sector pensions. In the end, Jacques Chirac’s government did what French governments do...(more)
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submitted by Grace 4 weeks 3 days 13 hours 55 minutes ago
Proposition 8 is a California ballot measure, but ripples from the high-priced, high-profile effort to ban same-sex marriage are extending way beyond its borders.
Checks of $500,000 or more are arriving from places like Cleveland; Brooklyn, N.Y.; Linden, Utah; and Bryn Mawr, Pa.
A Kansas City minister brings...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 9 weeks 1 day 16 hours 34 minutes ago
Just before lunchtime yesterday, House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and his lieutenants went through the final vote count and realized they had a problem: A rank-and-file uprising was on the verge of torpedoing a bill that had been heralded by President Bush, his...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 4 weeks 1 day 13 hours 34 minutes ago
They tap into built-in big audience on election eve via prerecorded interviews. Obama says he favors a college football playoff, and McCain supports a boxers union. "Monday Night Football" isn't the must-be-there national gathering place it might have been in Howard Cosell's heyday, but it's still...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 68 weeks 2 days 40 minutes ago
Gone are the days when Republican candidates were expected to fight to become the heir to either the Bush legacy or Karl Rove himself.
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submitted by elvis 5 weeks 1 day 13 minutes ago
A phony State Board of Elections flier advising Republicans to vote on Nov. 4 and Democrats on Nov. 5 is being circulated in several Hampton Roads localities, according to state elections officials.
In fact, Election Day, for voters of all political stripes, remains Nov. 4.
The somewhat official-looking...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 7 weeks 3 days 4 hours 6 minutes ago
For months, Mark Wagner stuck by John McCain, even as the economy stalled and other Americans came to blame Republican leadership. Then, about three weeks ago, the deepening economic downturn pushed him to reconsider.
Now, the Florida salesman and staunch Republican has abandoned the GOP ticket. Sarah...(more)
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submitted by Oscar Contreras 66 weeks 6 days 13 hours 57 minutes ago
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger took a firm stand Wednesday against the Democratic healthcare proposal moving through the Legislature, saying for the first time that he would not support an expansion of medical insurance if it were financed solely by new requirements on employers.
The Democratic proposal would require...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 4 weeks 2 days 16 hours 34 minutes ago
The vibrant chants of hundreds of marchers echoed through the quiet downtown Atlanta streets Sunday.
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