Barack Obama won the presidency Tuesday by persuading voters to embrace a seeming paradox: leadership based on contradictory principles of change and reassurance.
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WASHINGTON – Most Americans don’t believe the government has responsibility for bailing out financial firms with taxpayer money, a core part of the rescue plan Congress is considering to halt the near-meltdown of the nation’s financial markets, a Times/Bloomberg poll has found.
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Speaker after speaker at this week’s Republican National Convention defended small towns from the perceived slights of urban elites.
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Sarah Palin arrived at the site of the Republican National Convention on Sunday night and has hardly been seen since.
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This week’s Democratic convention sought to relaunch Barack Obama’s presidential campaign by doing three things: Healing the party’s internal rift, showing voters who Obama is, and spelling out more clearly what he would do as president, especially on the economy.
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Turning the personal into the political, Democrats opened their presidential nominating convention Monday with testimonials to Barack Obama as a husband, father, brother and, above all, a leader able to transcend the nation’s long divide across racial and gender lines.
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