The hundreds of thousands celebrating in a park on the Lake Michigan shoreline roared louder each time the giant video monitors showed that Barack Obama had won another battleground state: Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Ohio, Iowa, New Mexico.
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How much would you pay to be someone’s political “plus-one”?
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The comedian’s opening act warmed up the crowd, whose laughter echoed inside the cavernous lobby of the University of Minnesota’s McNamara Alumni Center.
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Elwyn Tinklenberg is living the long-shot candidate’s political dream.
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The patriotic bunting was waiting and the floors were scattered with star-shaped glitter when hundreds of Republicans filed into Elks Lodge No.
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John Rogers pushed his oxygen tank to the side, settled into his chair and summed up what everyone in the room at the Meridian Retirement Community here was thinking.
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HOUSTON – Amid mounting criticism that mistakes made by the Federal Emergency Management Agency caused thousands of area residents to be turned away from federal aid distribution points without supplies, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff is flying here this morning.
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This barrier island was a jumble of crushed homes, flattened businesses and towering mounds of debris today as local officials struggled to cope with a daunting catastrophe and residents lined up for food and water.
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Heavy rains and thunderstorms pummeled Houston this morning, hampering rescue efforts along the Gulf Coast and the restoration of full power and water for many residents of the country’s fourth-largest city in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike.
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