Barack Obama, the son of a father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, was elected the nation’s 44th president Tuesday, breaking the ultimate racial barrier to become the first African American to claim the country’s highest office.
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Every day dozens of polls on the presidential race are published, reporting voter sentiment nationally and in key states.
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Facing a big deficit in money, momentum and troops, John McCain hopes to eke out victory in nine days by winning several states he is now losing and making a case against Barack Obama on taxes, experience and Democratic control of Washington.
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Republican John McCain took his campaign to the crucial Interstate 4 corridor in central Florida today, stressing economic issues in this vote-rich region that may help decide who wins the presidency.
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Republican John McCain, returning to a state that launched his bid for the presidency eight years ago and again this year, appealed to New Hampshire voters today to ignore his sagging poll numbers and put him “across the finish line first.”
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Clearly, Barack Obama can draw a crowd.
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Words helped get Barack Obama where he is today.
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Barack Obama will cancel two stops and leave the presidential campaign trail later this week to fly to Hawaii to visit his ailing grandmother, a spokesman announced Monday night.
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DUNN,
N.C. – Barack Obama won the coveted endorsement of Colin Powell this morning and his campaign announced it had raised a staggering $150 million in September, giving the Democratic front-runner two big boosts heading into the final weeks of the presidential campaign.
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