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GOP holds to delegate penalties
The Republican National Committee is making it's penalties stick against South Carolina, New Hampshire, Florida and Michigan for holding primaries earlier than rules allowed. RNC credentials committee member and South Carolina state Rep. Alan Clemmons...Tags: Elections, Primaries, South Carolina, Florida, New Hampshire
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Ill. spent millions securing prison set to close
Associated Press WriterIllinois spent more than $17 million in the late 1990s and early part of this decade turning the Pontiac prison the governor plans to close into a specialized lockup to keep hundreds of the state's most violent and destructive prisoners away from other...Tags: Dan Rutherford, Employees, State Budgets, Joliet, Illinois
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Mich. reaction to McCain's pick of Palin
Reaction from Michigan to Republican presidential candidate John McCain's selection of Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate. ------ "Gov. Palin is a conservative Republican with a track record of reforming government. She will strengthen...Tags: Corrupt Practices, Elections, State Budgets, Democratic Party, George Bush
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Michigan Republicans move on, without Mitt
Associated Press WriterMichigan Republicans embraced Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as their nominee for vice president Friday, even though that means state native Mitt Romney didn't get the job. Presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain shook up the GOP ticket by making...Tags: Barack Obama, John McCain, Democratic Party, Elections, George Bush
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The convention: Final word
Spin CycleA post last night expressed the opinion that the Democratic Convention had been somewhat mediocre -- a lot of box-checking and Clinton soap opera, but surprisingly little passion given the situation -- and Obama had been left with a lot......Tags: Barack Obama, John McCain
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Video: More POW exploitation
Spin CycleTwo new entries in the McCain/GOP effort to make his POW imprisonment an all-purpose political weapon: First, McCain deploys it in a Pittsburgh radio interview about whether the spouse of a beer heiress can be in touch with kitchen table......Tags: Wesley Clark, National Government, Government
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McCain: Maybe it's just stadium envy?
Spin CycleThe McCain campaign is doing its best to trigger some frat-boy sniggering about Obama's Greek peristyle at Invesco Field tonight, portraying it as a symbol of Obama's alleged presumptuousness. Here's v-p prospect Tim Pawlenty, Minnesota's governor,...Tags: Barack Obama, National Football League, Jerry Lewis, Labor Day, Elections
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DNC: Obama's strategy and the 'Keating 5' scandal
Spin CycleIn the same New York delegation meeting stood two loyal Democrats with starkly different opinions on what may be a big tactical question: whether the Barack Obama campaign should start openly slashing away at Sen. John McCain's role long ago......Tags: Barack Obama, John McCain, Elections, Rudy Giuliani, Primaries
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Obama shares vision for presidency
craig.gordon@newsday.comOn a night of extraordinary history, Barack Obama turned instead to the ordinary -- gas prices and tax cuts, jobs and mortgages -- in hopes of finally convincing Americans that a man so unlike many of them has the experience and depth to lead. Obama...Tags: Barack Obama, John McCain, Employees, Elections, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Ehrlich doesn't plan to attend GOP convention
The Associated PressFormer governor Robert Ehrlich says he's too busy to attend next week's Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. Ehrlich says his schedule is "just crazy" and he has no formal role to play. Ehrlich said yesterday skipping the convention...Tags: John McCain, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Regional Authority, Maryland, Government
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