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Top 10 Presidential Cars
KickingTiresElection season kicked into high gear last night as the country prepares to peacefully elect a new leader. While everyone is grading the first of three presidential debates from last night and how President Barack Obama and GOP nominee Mitt......Tags: Hybrid Vehicles, Los Angeles Times, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Fiat, Barack Obama
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Obama vs. McCain: Debating debates
The Swampby Mark Silva Who wants a debate? The underdog, generally. Who doesn't? Someone who has something to lose. Republican Sen. John McCain, pressing Democratic Sen. Barack Obama for a weekly series of "town-hall''-styled debates, faces a mere six-point...Tags: Hofstra University, Minnesota, Barack Obama, Politics, Colleges and Universities
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Reagan, LBJ libraries rescuing town halls
The Swampby Jill Zuckman Sen. John McCain was the first to suggest that he and Sen. Barack Obama hold joint town hall meetings, but nothing seemed to come of it. Now comes former First Lady Nancy Reagan and the daughters of......Tags: Barack Obama, John McCain, California, Texas, Ronald Reagan
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Town halls: Not happening
Spin CycleJohn McCain has been pushing for the last week for a series of ten supposedly free-flowing, mostly unmoderated Town Hall meetings with Obama this summer. Apparently, it's not going to happen. The Obama campaign responded today by offering a......Tags: Elections, Minnesota, Barack Obama, Politics, Local Elections
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Obama: Bush failed on threat readiness
The Swampby John McCormick WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Flanked by two potential running mates, Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday criticized President Bush's efforts to confront the threats of smuggled nuclear weapons, bioterrorism and cyber security. The discussion felt...Tags: Purdue University, Barack Obama, Politics, Government, John McCain
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Obama worries peace movement
The Swampby Frank James Members of the peace movement who saw Sen. Barack Obama as their candidate, presumably after the ardently anti-war Representatives Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul exited the primaries, don't like what they're hearing from the senator from...Tags: Ralph Nader, International Military Interventions, Illinois, Barack Obama, Politics
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McCain running mate vetting: Cantor
The Swampby Mark Silva Today, in the running mate du jour category, comes word that the McCain campaign has summoned the personal records of Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia. "A pretty good indication that he is under scrutiny as a running......Tags: Regional Authority, Parliament, Jim Webb, Politics, Barack Obama
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Obama's Mama: Part of the Problem
The SwampBy Paul West If Barack Obama's mother were alive today, she'd be 65. In other words, she'd be part of his problem. Obama's problem is with older white voters. He's been wooing them for months and still has little to......Tags: Florida, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Polls, Bob Dole, Wages and Pensions
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Obama: McCain hurt Medicare
The Swampby John McCormick ROANOKE, Va. - Campaigning in a conservative part of a state that has consistently voted Republican for president since 1964, Sen. Barack Obama told an audience this afternoon that his Republican rival hurt Medicare. Citing a recent........Tags: Illinois, Jim Webb, Barack Obama, Government, John McCain
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McCain clips Obama on faith in country
The Swampby Jill Zuckman SPRINGFIELD, Virginia - With just three days left to press his case, Sen. John McCain Saturday delivered an unabashed pitch contrasting his patriotism to Sen. Barack Obama's, sparking a nasty clash. "We learn more and more about......Tags: New Mexico, State Budgets, Pennsylvania, Barack Obama, Politics
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Jesse Jackson: Obama 'so majestic'
The Swampby Mark Silva CHICAGO -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson cried last night. Jackson, who waged his own campaigns for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in the 1980s, stood in Chicago's Grant Park with a quarter-million other cheering people to see......Tags: Justice and Rights, Colin Powell, Politics, Barack Obama, Government
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Obama inaugural = teeming masses
The SwampThe stored-value card Washington, D.C.'s mass-transit system will begin selling Friday, Nov. 21, 2008 to commemorate President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration. by Frank James Many people who live and work in the Washington, D.C. area have been closely...Tags: White House, Washington Monument, Washington Post Co., Arts and Culture, Barack Obama
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