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submitted by Grace 245 weeks 3 days 10 hours 12 minutes ago
Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, a persistent Republican critic of the Iraq war, intends to announce on Monday he will not seek a third term, according to a Republican official.
The official also said Hagel does not plan to run for the White House in 2008, despite earlier...(more)
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submitted by JKM 211 weeks 1 day 23 hours 44 minutes ago
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is waving her fists across Indiana, signing autographs on boxing gloves.
“We need a president who’s a fighter again,” Mrs. Clinton said at a rally on Thursday, adding that the next president must understand what it is like to “get knocked down and...(more)
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submitted by Ari 209 weeks 9 hours 13 minutes ago
Doctors said that Senator Edward M. Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor that was discovered after he suffered a seizure over the weekend.
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submitted by Ari 211 weeks 2 days 5 hours 2 minutes ago
Democrat Barack Obama appears to have rebounded from some of the damage caused by the controversy surrounding his former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright, according to the latest CBS News/New York Times poll.
On one key measure, Obama has seen a big reversal since his denunciation of Wright’s...(more)
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submitted by M Walker 208 weeks 5 days 11 hours 41 minutes ago
Once optimistic about Sen. John McCain’s prospects for the fall general election, Republicans are increasingly concerned that he could wind up badly outgunned, saddled with serious deficiencies in money, organization and partisan intensity against the likely Democratic nominee, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
After making a promising debut...(more)
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submitted by AB 208 weeks 3 days 9 hours 52 minutes ago
President Bush is scaling back next week’s fundraising swings for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) at the request of the campaign, which wants the events closed to the press, POLITICO has learned.
The change — in both Arizona and Utah — is part of McCain’s delicate effort to...(more)
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submitted by JKM 208 weeks 2 days 10 hours 52 minutes ago
Members of the Kennedy family are incensed over Hillary Rodham Clinton's invoking the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy to explain why she's staying in the race - and they think it could be the death knell of an increasingly desperate and sloppy campaign.
"That comment may be...(more)
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submitted by pbl 213 weeks 6 hours 41 minutes ago
'A win is a win,' she says on the 'Today' show, seeking to downplay expectations in a state where her lead over Obama in the polls has narrowed. Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said today that a win in the Pennsylvania primary -- no matter how narrow...(more)
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submitted by Ari for team Bushwhackers... dissent ala mode 213 weeks 4 hours 46 minutes ago
John McCain has an inherent problem -- he'll say anything to satisfy the immediate audience. He is anything but straight talk.
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submitted by Grace 250 weeks 1 day 13 hours 41 minutes ago
John McCain’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination looks desperate. But rivals’ weaknesses may give him a chance to bounce back
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submitted by Grace for team Obama Watch 157 weeks 3 days 39 minutes ago
For weeks, Army Gen. Ray Odierno had passionately pressed his point with Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates: President Obama's plan to release photographs depicting the alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners would be a costly mistake.
Last week, when Odierno was in Washington for a meeting with the...(more)
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submitted by Ari 207 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago
Now that it’s obvious Barack Obama will be the Democratic candidate for president, GOP nominee apparent John McCain and the Republican attack machine predictably have started in on the Illinois senator as a callow youth with scant foreign policy experience and a resultant naive view of...(more)
