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January 2008 - Posts
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Republican presidential rivals John McCain and Mitt Romney spend a day on the campaign trail in California, one of more than 20 states holding contests Read More...
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Voters under 30 are showing plenty of enthusiasm for a 2008 race that has brought new diversity to presidential politics. Read More...
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Arizona has problems keeping Latino students in high school. It also lacks Spanish-speaking interpreters for hospitals, courts, and businesses. A project Read More...
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Forty years ago Friday, photojournalist Eddie Adams captured one of history's most memorable images. The 1968 photo of a South Vietnamese officer executing Read More...
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Long lines, a shortage of poll workers and unprecedented numbers of mail-in ballots could delay vote counts in the biggest-ever Super Tuesday in American Read More...
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Get side-by-side comparisons of what the Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls have said on the issues on voters' minds. Read More...
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President Bush's 2009 budget will virtually freeze most domestic programs and seek nearly $200 billion in savings from federal health care programs, a Read More...
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Several alarming reports about Afghanistan describe it as a failing state on the verge of a humanitarian crisis. Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill Read More...
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Barack Obama raised $32 million in January, a whopping figure that has permitted the campaign to boost staff and extend advertising, aides said Thursday Read More...
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The bipartisan economic stimulus plan has run into a partisan wall in the Senate. Democratic leaders say they'll force votes next week on a number of amendments. Read More...
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As voters in nearly half the states prepare to go to the polls Tuesday, Michele Norris talks with NPR's Julie Rovner about the Democratic and Republican Read More...
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Sen. John McCain may be the current Republican front-runner in the presidential race, but former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee insists that the contest is Read More...
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On Feb. 5, residents in 24 states will go to the polls in what amounts to a national primary. But voters in Super Tuesday states such as Alabama, Colorado, Read More...
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In advance of Super Tuesday, we've sent four reporters to four of the key states voting Feb. 5 to offer a snapshot at what's on voters' minds. Jason Beaubien Read More...
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Commentator Daniel Hernandez, a twenty-something Latino, is very wary of the "conventional wisdom" that Latinos might not support Sen. Barack Obama because Read More...
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Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama debate Thursday for the first time since their bitter contest in South Carolina -- and for the first time without Read More...
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday endorsed John McCain for the Republican presidential nomination, saying the Arizona senator has been Read More...
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Hollywood hosts a debate Thursday featuring the last two Democrats still in the race for the presidential nomination: Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton Read More...
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Racial and gender barriers have already been broken at the White House -- well, at least in Hollywood. But if voters have seen a black man as president Read More...
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The GOP candidate's decision to air a "significant" level of television ads in California and other states signals a willingness to aggressively try to Read More...
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Is there a curse on City Hall? Rudy Giuliani this week became the latest victim of a political urban legend — that New York City mayors who aim for higher Read More...
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The California governor will offer his endorsement Thursday, giving a boost to the Republican presidential front-runner six days before California's high-prize Read More...
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Record amounts of people are casting their ballots in state contests this year. College students in Southern California discuss breaking party with their Read More...
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Republican candidates squared off Wednesday night in California during the final GOP debate before Super Tuesday. Slate.com's John Dickerson discuss the Read More...
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Here's what I took away from tonight's face-off between the four remaining Republican candidates at the Ronald Reagan Library. Read More...
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President Bush pressured Congress to jump-start the economy and pass free trade deals with U.S. allies on Wednesday while tackling one other piece of unfinished Read More...
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California has long been viewed by presidential aspirants as a microcosm of the country, but its vastness and costs make campaigning difficult. Read More...
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A Canadian financier who traveled to Kazakhstan with Bill Clinton and won a big mining deal later donated millions to Clinton’s charitable foundation. Read More...
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Sharp exchanges over Iraq and the heated tone of the campaign spiced a tense debate Wednesday between Republican presidential candidates. The four-man Read More...
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As John Edwards left the Democratic presidential race Wednesday, he said his rivals have promised to consider his core policy issues, including poverty. Read More...
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Exiting the presidential race, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani offers a warm endorsement of erstwhile rival John McCain. Giuliani called the Arizona Read More...
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A Senate oversight panel tried again Wednesday to get Attorney General Michael Mukasey to clarify his concepts of what constitutes torture. But the verbal Read More...
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As the House's $146 billion economic-stimulus bill reaches the Senate, the Senate Finance Committee is ready with an alternative. Read More...
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Rudy Giuliani has served as teacher in charge of the remedial class for political junkies. The lesson we never seem to learn: Early national polls do not Read More...
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In a major boost for John McCain, Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney signaled Wednesday he's not ready to commit to a costly campaign in the Super Read More...
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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick asked for forgiveness Wednesday in response to recently revealed text messages that contradict his claim that he did not Read More...
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In advance of officially endorsing John McCain Wednesday, Rudy Giuliani said he was not seeking the vice presidential nomination or "any position in government. Read More...
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Barack Obama on Wednesday said rival Hillary Rodham Clinton is too polarizing to win the presidency and has sometimes voted Republican for political expediency Read More...
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey has tried to ward off questions about whether waterboarding is torture by announcing that he won't make that determination. Read More...
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Senate Democrats accused Attorney General Michael Mukasey of ducking questions Wednesday on whether waterboarding is torture despite his promise last year Read More...
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Arizona Sen. John McCain nearly ran out of money last summer. But after victories in three early primaries, his campaign says it has raised more this month Read More...
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Rudy Giuliani told supporters Wednesday he is abandoning his bid for president and backing Republican rival and longtime friend John McCain. Read More...
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Throughout Republican Rudolph Giuliani's campaign for the presidency, the former New York City mayor ignored advice that he himself offered in a 2004 book Read More...
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John McCain now stands atop the Republican field, having won Tuesday's crucial Florida primary. And on Wednesday he won the endorsement of one of his former Read More...
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Sen. John McCain's iconoclastic views on immigration policy have made him an unpopular member of his own party in his home state of Arizona. But his stand Read More...
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With John Edwards out of the race, the question now is where his supporters will go. Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will try hard to woo former Read More...
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The housing market crisis is just one of the issues being addressed in the presidential candidates' proposals for the U.S. economy. Read More...
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John Edwards, who never stopped running for president after the 2004 election, but whose hopes for 2008 were never realized, withdrew from the presidential Read More...
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A medical marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles has taken a new approach to convenience for its customers. It has installed a high-security marijuana vending Read More...
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The Federal Reserve's decision on Tuesday to cut a key interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point comes as fears of a recession grow. Here's Read More...
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Democrat John Edwards is expected to exit the presidential race Wednesday, ending a scrappy underdog bid in which he steered his rivals toward progressive Read More...
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Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards is dropping out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, a day after his dismal showing in the Florida Read More...
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Sen. John McCain is officially the Republican presidential frontrunner after a victory in Tuesday's winner-take-all Florida primary. What does this mean Read More...
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Sen. Barack Obama campaigns in his maternal grandfather's hometown in rural Kansas. The Democratic presidential contender painted a complex picture of Read More...
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On Feb. 5, more than 20 states host presidential primary contests. How are voters in three diverse states -- Alabama, Arizona and California -- feeling Read More...
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After a weak third-place finish in Florida -- a state he had counted on winning -- former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is expected to drop out of the Republican Read More...
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Arizona Sen. John McCain's win in Florida's Republican primary makes him the clear front-runner in the GOP presidential race. And he tried out that role Read More...
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Economic and employment opportunities are much on the minds of black voters during this presidential campaign season. Ronald Walters, a professor of government Read More...
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Sen. John McCain of Arizona builds momentum in the Republican presidential race with a victory in Tuesday's Florida primary. The outcome is a blow to former Read More...
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As Rudolph W. Giuliani ponders his political mortality, many advisers and political observers point to the hubris and strategic miscalculations that plagued Read More...
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Republican Mitt Romney, his family and supporters vowed to carry his campaign into the vote-rich Super Tuesday contests next week after narrowly losing Read More...
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After a poor showing in Florida's Republican primary, NBC News and the National Journal reported Tuesday night that Rudy Giuliani will endorse winner John Read More...
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John McCain said his projected Florida primary victory "shows one thing: I’m the conservative leader who can unite the party." Read More...
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards postponed campaign events in Alabama and North Dakota to make a major policy address on poverty Wednesday Read More...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton finished Tuesday's Florida Democratic primary with more votes than any other Democrat, but no delegates were awarded due to a dispute Read More...
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