Articles filed under Misc Elections
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Clues to how Obama would play his hand as president can be found in poker styleSep 23, 2007 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Barack Obama's triumph in the 2004 U.S. Senate race earned him a memorable send-off from his friends in the Illinois legislature-- they emptied his wallet...
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Bush rarely on lips of GOPSep 23, 2007 11:00 pm - Analysis MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. -- Republican presidential candidates can't be any more clear: President Bush isn't welcome on the campaign trail. Competing to succeed h...
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Independents increasingly leaning DemocraticSep 23, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Michael Brooks is exactly the kind of voter the Republican Party can ill afford to lose. But in a foreboding omen for 2008, it may have already done just ...
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Florida Dems won't budge on early primarySep 23, 2007 11:00 pm - MIAMI -- By e-mail and on its Web site, Florida's Democratic Party told supporters Sunday it planned to move ahead with a Jan. 29 primary, despite the national party's t...
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New York jail union to endorse ObamaSep 23, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- One of the largest municipal jail unions in the country said Monday that it will endorse Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois for president. "Barack Obama is the on...
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Clinton sure she won't repeat mistakes that sank earlier health care reform bidSep 23, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday defended her plan for universal health care and insisted she won't repeat the mistakes that doomed her earlier ef...
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Does justice in America remain racially biased?Sep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Witnesses described the schoolyard fight in rural Jena, La., as short but violent, as six black teens beat a white classmate unconscious. Instead of being expelled, five...
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Voters should know how candidates are guided by faithSep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - The field of presidential candidates is nearly complete. Only Newt Gingrich remains to decide -- or announce if he has decided -- whether he, too, will run for president...
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Hillary could stand to show more spine and less expediencySep 17, 2007 11:00 pm - If there is a phrase more closely associated with both Hillary and Bill Clinton than "the politics of personal destruction," it does not come to mind. All the others -- ...
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Three Democrats court backing of traditionally friendly union membershipSep 17, 2007 11:00 pm - When you're preaching to the choir, it can be hard to convince that choir you're closer to God than the next preacher. Three Democratic presidential candidate...