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Colin Powell calls Sen. Stevens' word 'sterling'
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell called Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens' word "sterling" at the senator's corruption trial.
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Newsweek: Will there be a 'reverse Bradley effect'?
Six percent of voters say they're less likely to support Obama because he's black. But the interesting thing is that 9 percent of the same electorate--6 percent of whites and 15 percent of non-whites--says that Obama's race makes them more likely to choose him on Election Day.
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Parties wage war over voter fraud, intimidation
Republicans say Democrats and their allies are trying to subvert the voter registration system with an avalanche of inaccurate or fraudulent new voter registrations. But Democrats charge Republicans are trying to deter would-be voters.
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McCain: Don't force elderly to sell stocks
John McCain proposed Friday that the elderly be allowed to hang on to the stocks in their retirement funds and not be forced to sell them in a bad market.
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Obama: McCain trying to divide country
Barack Obama on Friday accused John McCain of trying to divide the country, but he let fellow Democrats handle harsher attacks while he kept his message mostly upbeat.
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Alaska lawmakers review Palin probe
Sworn to secrecy, Alaska lawmakers have begun reviewing an investigative report focusing on whether Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin abused her authority as governor.
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Newsweek: Vets campaign for both Obama, McCain
No matter which candidate is being supported in an ad there are common threads that appear as the veterans speak of their service, yet at some point messages divide and the criticism begins.
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Bush: ‘We can solve this crisis and we will’
President George W. Bush said Friday that the U.S. government's financial rescue plan was aggressive enough and big enough to work, but would take time to fully kick in.
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PR consultant helped Palin
Beginning this spring, a PR expert began pitching Sarah Palin as an "upstart governor" crusading against Big Oil.
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Obama plans half-hour TV ad
Already advertising at record levels, Barack Obama has scheduled a half-hour commercial for prime time on Oct. 29, six days before Election Day.
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Officials deny illegally purging voters
Election officials defended their registration procedures after a newspaper reported tens of thousands of eligible voters were removed from rolls or blocked from registering in at least six states.
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Which comedian poked fun at debate? That one
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NYT: States' purges of voter rolls appear illegal
Tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law.
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Mo. officials suspect fake voter registration
Officials in Missouri, a hard-fought jewel in the presidential race, are sifting through possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by an advocacy group that has been accused of election fraud in other states.
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Democrats driving for 60 Senate seats
The Democrats apparently are getting closer to winning 60 seats in the Senate, a total that would leave the Republican minority unable to stop legislation.
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Blumenthal: Pollsters facing perfect storm
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