For vast swaths of Americans, election day has already come and gone thanks to a record level of early voting – a big transformation of the way Americans exercise their most fundamental right as citizens.
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Iowa gave the first sign that the American political landscape had changed.
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Barack Obama is leading Republican presidential rival John McCain in two battleground states, Florida and Ohio, where voters have more confidence in his ability to handle the troubled economy, a new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found.
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Heading into the home stretch of the presidential campaign, John McCain has been sharpening his closing argument against his Democratic opponent, saying that Barack Obama’s tax policies would produce a redistribution of wealth that borders on socialism.
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When Nancy Pelosi was sworn in as the first Democratic House speaker in 12 years, she promised to reach across the aisle to Republicans, to be “speaker of the House – the entire House.”
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WASHINGTON – The crisis in the financial markets and increasing anxiety about the economy is playing to Sen.
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For Democrat Barack Obama, the Wall Street meltdown is a testament to failed Bush administration policies that his Republican rival would continue.
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The emergence of Sarah Palin as a political force in the presidential race has left many top Democrats fretting that, just two weeks after their convention ended on an emotional high, Barack Obama’s campaign has suddenly lost its stride.
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For much of his long career in Washington, John McCain has been throwing darts at the special spending system known as earmarking, through which powerful members of Congress can deliver federal cash for pet projects back home with little or no public scrutiny.
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