Democrats in Washington State want to compel a candidate for governor to list his party affiliation on the ballot as “Republican.”
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In Columbus, college students pitched tents overnight so they could be first to vote. Advocates in Cleveland shuttled voters from homeless shelters to the polls. In Akron, voters arrived as soon as the doors were unlocked and waited in folding chairs for their turn.
WASILLA, Alaska, Sept. 30 — Gov. Sarah Palin maintained a private e-mail account that she used to communicate with a small circle of staff members outside the state government’s secure official e-mail system, according to the Wasilla company that established the site.
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Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) has faced — and overcome — tough opponents ever since he was first elected to the House in the Republican landslide of 1994. This year is no different, and his vote Monday against the $700 billion financial bailout package has injected an enormous element of uncertain…
As Sen. Barack Obama strode onto the stage in the cavernous ballroom Saturday night, the audience jumped up, shouting, singing and clapping along with his campaign theme song, Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours.”
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After watching the spectacular defeat of a $700 billion financial rescue plan in the House on Monday, Sen. Barack Obama yesterday accelerated his effort to sell the proposal, seeking to redress what his advisers believe has been a failure by the White House to adequately explain the plan.
The District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia require an excuse for absentee voting, which can be done by mail or in person at local election boards or designated centers.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin stood by her opposition to abortion even in cases of rape or incest and her skepticism that global warming is caused by human activity, but she stepped back from her past support for teaching creationism in the schools in last night’s installment of her interviews with CBS’s…
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Voters are deeply divided over the terms of the government’s $700 billion economic rescue package but overwhelmingly fear that the House’s rejection of the measure on Monday could deepen the country’s financial woes, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll.
CQPolitics.com – A small group of liberal House Democrats says its alternative proposal to bolster the teetering financial system is capable of generating support from House Republicans.
RUSH: What you are about to hear, ladies and gentlemen, is informative, educational, and stunning. It is Democrat after Democrat defending all of these fraudulent mortgages from Freddie Mac; attacking those who were raising concerns. You’re going to hear Democrats viciously attacking the effort to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which is at the root of the problem here requiring this so-called bailout. Every black member of the committee is defending Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and every Republican begging for more regulation. You will not believe what you’re going to hear. They defend Franklin Raines, every one of them. It is Barney Frank saying “safety and soundness” is not an issue. Republicans are on the attack one after another; Democrats defending one after another. I don’t get excited about YouTube stuff going around because there’s so much YouTube stuff, but this stuff is exciting. It’s huge. You have Franklin Raines actually saying these assets are “riskless.” So we’re going to start with every speaker. This is a hearing from 2004: Republicans begging for regulations and Democrats defending Fannie and Freddie. We start here with Rep. Richard Baker (R-LA).
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First, John McCain says he will not meet with a NATO ally that he thinks is in Latin America, and now all of a sudden Venezuela is in the Middle East. When political pundits said this race could change the map, this is not what they had in mind.
McCain, talking about energy policy, stresses the importance of “ensuring that America is secure, and not dependent on oil from people like Hugo Chavez or other parts of the Middle East which is, we know, could be destabilized under certain sets of circumstances.” [emphasis added]
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