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Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause
Danielle Ross was alone in an empty room at the Obama campaign headquarters in Kokomo, Ind., a cellphone in one hand, a voter call list in the other. She was stretched out on the carpeted floor wearing laceless sky-blue Converses, stories from the trail on her mind.(close)Related info:
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- 05/13/2008
- 05/14/2008
- Rank of all stories in past 30 days:
- # 16
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Republicans "Sore" At Obama's Metahpor (5/13/2008)
Bush warns of Iraq disaster
Bush laments flawed pre-war intelligence.(close)Related info:
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- 05/14/2008
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Bush Finally Speaks to the Ultimate Wartime Sacrifice (5/14/2008)
Upcountry
If the exit polls (and the pre-election polls) are accurate, Hillary Clinton is set to win West Virginia by roughly a 2 to 1 margin over Barack Obama. Oregon, next Tuesday, favors Obama. But Kentucky, which votes the same day, seems likely to yield a similar margin for Sen. Clinton. So what is it about these two states that makes them so favorable to Hillary Clinton? There's been a lot of talk in this campaign about Barack Obama's problem with working class white voters or rural voters. But these claims are both inaccurate because they are incomplete.(close)Related info:
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- 05/14/2008
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Clinton Wins West Virginia Primary by Wide Margin (5/14/2008) - Clinton Campaign Disses Millions of Democratic Voters (5/5/2008)
Why Hillary Won (1/10/2008) - Pennsylvania (PA) Poll * April 21, 2008 * Clinton Leads Obama By 7 Point (4/21/2008)
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- Clinton Wins WV (5/14/2008)
- Is Clinton Staying In To Say, "I Told You So"? (5/14/2008)
Senators say whether they’d agree to be vice president
The Hill asked all 97 senators who are not running for president the same question: “If you were asked, would you accept an offer to be the VP nominee?” Some senators laughed, but others took the question seriously. A story about these responses appears in the May 13 print edition of The Hill and at thehill.com. Here, verbatim, are the 97 responses.
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- 05/13/2008
- 05/14/2008
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Interview of the Vice President by Scott Hennen, WDAY at Radio Day at the White House (10/26/2006) - Bush Insults BBC Political Editor at Press Conference (8/3/2007)
Closer (7/16/2007) 
'Scouting' the Hill on Iraq (7/9/2007)
Careless Detention | Some Detainees Are Drugged For Deportation
The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back to their home country, according to medical records, internal documents and interviews with people who have been drugged.
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- 05/14/2008
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- Our Country (5/14/2008)
After big win, Clinton vows to push forward
Sen. Hillary Clinton used her big win in West Virginia on Tuesday to make her case that she has a better chance of beating the Republicans in the general election.Analysis: House GOP hits new low, faces bleak Nov.
The sky is falling on House Republicans and there is no sign of it letting up. The GOP loss in Mississippi’s special election Tuesday is the strongest sign yet that the Republican Party is in shambles. And while some Republicans see a light at the end of the tunnel, that light more likely represents the Democratic train that is primed to mow down more Republicans in November. The third straight House special election loss in three conservative districts this year is a clear indication that the GOP brand is turning off voters and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is in disarray.
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- 05/14/2008
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Childers victory gives Dems a third straight takeover (5/14/2008) - House G.O.P. Adopts Change Theme (5/13/2008)
House Republicans in the Red, Numbers Show (9/27/2007) - Democratic Victory May Be a Bellwether (5/14/2008)
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- GOP's New Slogan Already Being Used To Market Anti-Depressant (5/13/2008)
Americans Losing Confidence in Current Leadership
Americans are gloomier about the direction of the country than at any point since 1992, and Democrats have matched their biggest advantage in 25 years as the party better able to deal with the nation's main problems, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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- 05/12/2008
- 05/13/2008
- 05/14/2008
- Rank of all stories in past 30 days:
- # 23
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- Clinton Wins WV (5/14/2008)
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- Confidence in Bush Leadership at All-Time Low, Poll Finds (1/22/2007)
New Gallup data show confidence in Congress at all time low (6/21/2007) - Poll Finds Americans Pessimistic, Want Change (11/4/2007)
- Poll Finds Americans Pessimistic, Want Change (11/4/2007)
Election Center 2008
CNN.com delivers the latest election results by county for the Democratic and Republican presidential primaries and caucuses.
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- 05/14/2008
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Election Center 2008 (3/5/2008) - Election Center 2008 (1/4/2008)
- Election Center 2008 (3/8/2008)
- Election Center 2008 (1/19/2008)
Bush has given up golf for troops
Blog: Bush has given up golf for troops.
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- 05/14/2008
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Bush: I quit golf over Iraq war (5/14/2008) - Bush Finally Speaks to the Ultimate Wartime Sacrifice (5/14/2008)
Rumsfeld On 2006 Election: "The Correction For That...Is An Attack"
An ongoing exploration of the documents related to the Pentagon's "message force multipliers" program has unearthed a clip of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld suggesting that America, having voted the Democrats back into Congressional power, could benefit from suffering another terrorist attack, and doing so in the presence of the very same military analysts who went on to provide commentary and analysis of the Iraq War. As documented by Newsvine, it all went down at a valedictory luncheon Rumsfeld hosted for those analysts on December 12, 2006.
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- 05/14/2008
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Audio: Military Analysts Laud "The Leader" Rumsfeld (5/8/2008) 
Memo to the media: Have you hosted on air the person who told Rumsfeld at military analyst meeting, "You are the leader. You are our guy"? (5/9/2008) 
Rumsfeld's transition raises questions (1/25/2007) - Rumsfeld’s Memo of Options for Iraq War (12/2/2006)
Our Country
It's like they saw everything that was decent and decided to take a leak on it. The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back to their home country, according to medical records, internal documents and interviews with people who have been drugged. ...
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- 05/14/2008
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- Careless Detention | Some Detainees Are Drugged For Deportation (5/14/2008)
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U.S. Health Care Gets Boost From Charity, "60 Minutes": Remote Area Medical Finds It's Needed In America To Plug Health Insurance Gap (3/4/2008) 
There But For The Grace… (11/19/2007) 
Immigration officials detaining, deporting American citizens (1/25/2008) - Bid to Stockpile Bioterror Drugs Stymied by Setbacks (9/18/2006)
Clinton Wins WV
Her campaign is rescued from the dead. As the Clinton campaign sagely points out "no Democrat has won the White House without winning West Virginia since 1916" and therefore Obama's primary loss shows that despite his large lead in the polls over John McCain, he can't possible win the election.
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- 05/14/2008
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- Americans Losing Confidence in Current Leadership (5/12/2008)
- After big win, Clinton vows to push forward (5/14/2008)
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- Upcountry (5/14/2008)
Section 1: General Election Patterns of Support: Obama Has The Lead, But Potential Problems Too (2/29/2008) - New Backing for Obama As Party Seeks Unity (3/31/2008)
- Clinton Wins West Virginia Primary by Wide Margin (5/14/2008)
Group protests Cobb bar, calling Obama T-shirts racist
Marietta tavern owner Mike Norman says the T-shirts he's peddling, featuring cartoon chimp Curious George peeling a banana, with \
Evangelicals, Huckabee allied to sink McCain?
John McCain, who has spent the last two months trying to consolidate right-wing support as the Republican candidate for president, has a problem of disputed dimensions with a vital component of the conservative coalition: the evangelicals. The biggest question is whether Mike Huckabee is part of the problem or the solution for McCain. An element of the Christian community is not reconciled to McCain's candidacy but instead regards the prospective presidency of Barack Obama in the nature of a biblical plague visited upon a sinful people.
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- 05/14/2008
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Political Christmas wishes (12/26/2007) 
Huckabee won't concede state; GOP resuming delegate count (2/11/2008) - Hagee Endorses McCain (2/29/2008)
- Poll: Huckabee Tied For Second Nationally! (12/4/2007)
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- McCain in the Mud (5/14/2008)
Obama on Zionism and Hamas
The Hamas leader Ahmed Yousef did Barack Obama no favor recently when he said: “We like Mr. Obama and we hope that he will win the election.” John McCain jumped on this statement, calling it a “legitimate point of discussion,” and tied it to Obama’s putative softness on Iran, whose ever-charming president last week called Israel a “stinking corpse” and predicted its “annihilation.”
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- 05/13/2008
- 05/14/2008
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- Republicans "Sore" At Obama's Metahpor (5/13/2008)
- The Honorable Mr. Boehner (5/13/2008)
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McCain camp says Hamas wants Obama (4/20/2008) 
McCain: "Clear Who Hamas Wants to be the Next President" (4/25/2008) 
Why Does Anyone Care? (3/14/2008) - Lieberman: Obama's Alleged Endorsement By Hamas Shows "Difference" With McCain (5/13/2008)
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- McCain Backer John Hagee Apologizes to Catholics (5/13/2008)
- How The Pentagon Propaganda Machine Worked: ‘are you telling me to tell a lie???? surely not! ;)’ (5/13/2008)
Omaha.com Elections Section
Democrat Scott Kleeb and his family greet supporters at Zen's Lounge in Lincoln. Kleeb defeated Tony Raimondo in the primary for U.S. Senate. Kleeb, a youthful politico pushing change, will face Republican Mike Johanns, a savvy veteran selling experience. Kleeb, 32, trounced Tony Raimondo, 68, a Columbus business executive who never overcame resentment among some hard-core Democrats over his 11th-hour party switch last December. But Kleeb offered a unity message Tuesday night at a gathering of about 75 friends and supporters at Zen's Lounge in downtown Lincoln.
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- 05/14/2008
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- Are Democrats over 45 Racists? (1/21/2008)
Huckabee: Amend Constitution to be in 'God's standards' (1/16/2008) - The TNR Primary: Part Fourteen (1/29/2008)
GOP Rep. Recycles Phony Lincoln Quote During Escalation Debate (2/17/2007)
Democratic Victory May Be a Bellwether
A Democrat won the race for a GOP-held congressional seat in northern Mississippi yesterday, leaving the once-dominant House Republicans reeling from their third special-election defeat of the spring.(close)Related info:
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- 05/14/2008
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- Democrat Wins La. Special Election (5/4/2008)
- Childers victory gives Dems a third straight takeover (5/14/2008)
Foster takes seat from GOP (3/9/2008) - Analysis: House GOP hits new low, faces bleak Nov. (5/14/2008)
Bush: I quit golf over Iraq war
US President George W. Bush said in an interview out Tuesday that he quit playing golf in 2003 out of respect for the families of US soldiers killed in the conflict in Iraq, now in its sixth year.(close)Related info:
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- 05/14/2008
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- Bush Finally Speaks to the Ultimate Wartime Sacrifice (5/14/2008)
Bush has given up golf for troops (5/14/2008)
McCain Backer John Hagee Apologizes to Catholics
Elizabeth Holmes reports on the presidential race. John Hagee, the controversial evangelical pastor who endorsed John McCain, will issue a letter of apology to Catholics today for inflammatory remarks he has made, including accusing the Roman Catholic Church of supporting Adolf Hitler and calling it “The Great Whore.”
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- 05/13/2008
- 05/14/2008
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- McCain Endorsement Angers Catholic League President (2/28/2008)
- For Religious and Civil Rights (2/29/2008)
- Interview with Bill Donohue: Catholic League denounces McCain (2/29/2008)
- Hagee Endorses McCain (2/29/2008)
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- Obama on Zionism and Hamas (5/13/2008)
Childers victory gives Dems a third straight takeover
Democrat Travis Childers won Tuesday’s Mississippi special election runoff for Sen. Roger Wicker’s (R) former House seat, handing Democrats the biggest of their three special election takeovers this cycle and sending a listless GOP further into a state of disarray. Childers led GOP candidate Greg Davis 53-47 with more than 90 percent of precincts reporting. Turnout increased substantially over the 67,000 voters who cast ballots in the April 22 open special election, with more than 100,000 voting in the runoff.
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