Articles filed under Political Figures
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McCain invites Obama to joint town hall debatesJun 04, 2008 11:00 pm - BATON ROUGE, La. -- John McCain asked Barack Obama to join him in 10 town hall meetings with voters in the coming months, and their campaigns began talks to make it happ...
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Obama makes history by sealing Democratic nominationJun 03, 2008 11:00 pm - ST. PAUL, Minn. _ Cheered by a roaring crowd, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois laid claim to the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night, taking a historic step to...
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Who's the stronger candidate: Obama or McCain?Jun 03, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama and John McCain start their showdown for the White House lacking broad public faith that either can right a struggling economy and needing to ...
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Clinton open to VP nodJun 03, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Hillary Rodham Clinton told colleagues Tuesday she would be consider joining Barack Obama as his running mate, and advisers said she was withholding a form...
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McCain urges joint town halls with ObamaJun 03, 2008 11:00 pm - BATON ROUGE, La. -- John McCain challenged Barack Obama to join him in 10 town-hall meetings with voters before the Democratic convention in August. An Obama adviser was...
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In leaving his church, Obama shows he's a traditional politicianJun 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Say it ain't so. Barack Obama has worked hard to convince Americans that he is the untraditional politician -- immune to special interests, loyal to his faith, close to...
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Loophole lets corporations fund political conventionsJun 03, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Five years ago this week, a federal election regulator predicted that corporate sponsorship of political conventions would eventually be as common as it is...
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Breakthrough or anomaly?Jun 03, 2008 11:00 pm - The principle that all men are created equal has never been more than a remote eventuality in the quest for the presidency. But with the Democratic nomination finally in...
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Chicago Archdiocese asks Rev. Pfleger to step downJun 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Cardinal Francis George asked the Rev. Michael Pfleger on Tuesday to temporarily step down from his post to "reflect on his recent statements" regarding Sen. Hillary Cli...
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Obama's moment also a major juncture in US historyJun 03, 2008 11:00 pm - The principle that all men are created equal has never been more than a remote eventuality in the quest for the presidency. But with the Democratic nomination finally in...