Articles filed under Political Parties
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Bush to skip conventionAug 30, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Bracing for a storm that could surpass Hurricane Katrina, President Bush on Sunday said he would skip the Republican National Convention and head instead t...
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McCain choice of Palin brings St. Paul to lifeAug 30, 2008 11:00 pm - Anyone who thought John McCain had lost his edge should wonder no more. His bold selection Friday of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin rocked the nation. Within minutes, someone f...
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McCain, Palin in Pa.; GOP convention eyes GustavAug 30, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON, Pa. -- John McCain voiced concern for Gulf Coast residents fleeing the path of Hurricane Gustav on Saturday and made plans to visit Mississippi even as he re...
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Parties change, coverage doesn'tAug 30, 2008 11:00 pm - In the interest of fairness, the major TV networks will cover the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., much as they covered the Democratic Convention in De...
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Beyond politics, many blacks see personal hope in Obama campaignAug 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Playing with her 3-year-old granddaughter on a recent summer day, Monique Davis saw that a collection of magazines caught the young girl's eye. On a nearby table rested...
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Reverence for the power of the spoken wordAug 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Our nation's first black major party nominee for president, Barack Obama of Illinois, raised the bar for himself four years ago when he delivered the speech that would s...
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Gore: McCain's policies too close to BushAug 28, 2008 11:00 pm - DENVER -- Al Gore told Democrats Thursday night that the 2008 election is close because defenders of the status quo "are desperately afraid of the change Barack Obama re...
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Who will replace Obama in the Senate?Aug 28, 2008 11:00 pm - If Barack Obama wins the presidency, he may be the leader of the free world - but he won't have the power to pick his own U.S. Senate replacement. That plum assignment f...
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Obama to convention crowd, America: I'll fix WashingtonAug 28, 2008 11:00 pm - DENVER -- Surrounded by an enormous, adoring crowd, Barack Obama promised a clean break from the "broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush...
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Democrats' detente lasts only a dayAug 28, 2008 11:00 pm - DENVER - While Illinois Democrats gathered Thursday to see Chicago's Barack Obama become the first black man to accept the party's nomination for president, Gov. Rod Bla...