Articles filed under Politics
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Obama, Winfrey hear cheers that symbolize a magnificent changeDec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - DES MOINES, Iowa -- It is 1,134 miles and 53 years since Jerome Schlicter, a teacher, walked into my eighth-grade classroom and held up The New York Times. The headline ...
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Family of AIDS victim seeks talk with HuckabeeDec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - DES MOINES, Iowa -- Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's 15-year-old comments that AIDS patients should have been isolated have so alarmed the mother of Rya...
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Official thinks Link should stay on ballotDec 10, 2007 10:00 pm - Despite questions about the signatures on his candidate petition, state Sen. Terry Link should stay on the upcoming Democratic primary ballot, a hearing examiner is reco...
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'Oprahpalooza' arrives at early voting South CarolinaDec 09, 2007 10:00 pm - COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Media mogul Oprah Winfrey on Sunday told thousands of people in a football stadium in this early voting state to shrug off Barack Obama's detractors an...
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Civil rights icon: Obama not ready to be presidentDec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - ATLANTA -- Civil rights icon Andrew Young says Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is too young and lacks the support network to ascend to the White House. In...
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Oprah hits the campaign trailDec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - DES MOINES, Iowa -- Oprah Winfrey said worry about the direction of her country and a personal belief in Barack Obama's ability to lead it pushed her to make her first e...
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Huckabee advocated isolating AIDS patients during 1992 Senate raceDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Mike Huckabee once advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public, opposed increased federal funding in the search for a cure and said ho...
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A tale of two candidate visitsDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - Two presidential contenders stopped in Chicago on Friday to give a little attention -- in their own, unique ways -- to Illinois voters in the march toward the state's Fe...
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Measuring Hyde's mark on historyDec 06, 2007 10:00 pm - It was November 1974, and Americans were going to the polls for the first time since Richard Nixon had resigned in disgrace three months earlier. Motivated in part by di...
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Top Democratic fundraiser indictedDec 04, 2007 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Top Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu swindled investors out of millions of dollars and made illegal donations to the political campaigns of congressional and...