Articles filed under Politics
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Clinton holds off rivals in AP pollNov 08, 2007 10:00 pm - Despite fallout over last week's Democratic presidential debate, Hillary Rodham Clinton maintained a 2-to-1 lead over her nearest rival, according to an Associated Press...
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Obama pledges to help protect workers' pensionsNov 08, 2007 10:00 pm - FAIRFIELD, Iowa -- On the stump and in new TV ads, Democrat Barack Obama is focusing on baby boomers' retirement worries and targeting companies that "leave workers high...
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Hillary Clinton's expensive plansNov 08, 2007 10:00 pm - The Boston Globe quoted Hillary: "I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all!" How true. The plans she totes as "for the common good" might reach the one...
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Reruns -- they're not just for the comedic writersNov 07, 2007 10:00 pm - The writers' strike has all the late-night talk shows running reruns. We newspaper reporters are writers, too. You just might not have realized we are doing the rerun th...
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Obama calls Internet photo a dirty trickNov 07, 2007 10:00 pm - BURLINGTON, Iowa -- Barack Obama complained on Wednesday about an Internet photo that claims the Democratic presidential candidate didn't hold his hand over his heart du...
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The GOP's odd couple: Robinson backs GiulianiNov 07, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Televangelist Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition, endorsed Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday. "It is my pleasure ...
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Right way to give driver's licenses to illegal immigrantsNov 07, 2007 10:00 pm - Hillary Clinton is taking flak for the roundabout way in which she answered a question about whether New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was right to give driver's licenses to i...
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Candidates' online stores help them get the word outNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - Each male presidential candidate has an "official" online store where supporters can buy buttons, pins, T-shirts, hats, jackets and more. The sole female candidate -- Hi...
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Ex-president: Friendship with Bill won't aid HillaryNov 04, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Former President George H.W. Bush says the post-White House friendship he has nurtured with the man who turned him out of office won't make him go any easi...
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Democrats would put us at risk with their carrots and sticksNov 03, 2007 11:00 pm - If there were stock in carrots and sticks, I would direct my broker to immediately buy some because virtually all of the Democratic presidential candidates in Philadelph...