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Obama greets supporters in Iowa Tuesday, more than four months after he won the primary season’s first contest there. (Photo Credit: Mike Roselli/CNN) POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 Posted: 06:34 AM ET Compiled by Mary Grace Lucas, CNN Washington Bureau Obama Takes Delegate Majority Sen. Barack Obama crossed another threshold last night in…
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Object lessons in Republican political ads
Willie Horton, his life & times William R. Horton (born August 12, 1951 in Chesterfield, South Carolina) is a convicted felon who was the subject of a Massachusetts weekend furlough program that released him while serving a life sentence for murder, without the possibility of parole, during which furloughs he committed armed robbery and rape.…
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Doctors: Kennedy has brain tumor
(CNN) — U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor, doctors treating him at Massachusetts General Hospital said Tuesday. Sen. Edward Kennedy suffered a seizure Saturday in Hyannisport, Massachusetts. Kennedy was hospitalized Saturday morning after suffering a seizure at his family’s compound at Hyannisport, Massachusetts. “Preliminary results from a biopsy of the brain…
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Maybe We Can't
The black case for Obama-skepticism by Cinque Henderson, The New Republic, Wednesday, May 28, 2008 Ninety percent of black Democrats support Barack Obama. So that might leave an observer wondering: What the hell is up with that other 10 percent? Are they stupid? Do they hate their own race? Do they not understand the historical…
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Race in Oregon
A friend sent me an e-mail yesterday that I’m only seeing just now. She said: [A]s you’ll be reading this on primary day tomorrow, I wonder why so little coverage of Obama’s big lead in Oregon — considering it is a much whiter state that W. Virginia or some of the other states Hillary has…
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still in Oregon
Steve Novick, he’s always found a way to get things done! Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Enlarge Photo AP Obama seeks delegate majority in Ore., Ky. primaries AP – 23 minutes agoAP – Barack Obama will reach for a symbolic tipping point in the Oregon and Kentucky primaries Tuesday — a majority of pledged delegates offered in the Democratic presidential contest. Buffett supporting Obama Posted: 08:35 PM ET From CNN Ticker…
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More from Oregon . . .
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama visted Portland on Sunday, drawing an estimated 75,000 people, a campaign record. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Hoisted by his own petard
My friend Lucy Wilson (not her real name), in a e-mail, wrote that she found the bit where Lieberman whispered into McCain’s ear and then McCain saying, “uh I mean the Iranians are training the extremists, not Al Qaeda” particularly funny. “Are you serious? That was a comedy routine.” Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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A story to go with the pictures
Obama rallies tens of thousands at Portland waterfront, Posted by The Oregonian May 19, 2008 06:15AM Tens of thousands jammed Gov. Tom McCall Waterfront Park in Portland today to watch Barack Obama wrap up a busy weekend in Oregon and a historic campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. The Portland Fire Bureau estimated the crowd…