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Election ’08
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One day before Election Day, Senator Hillary Clinton will campaign for Barack Obama at a rally in St. Charles. Her Missouri visit is at least the eighth in the last two weeks by Obama or…
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From the Oct. 12, 2008 Chicago Sun-Times: John McCain is hammering Barack Obama about his ties to Chicago educator Bill Ayers, co-founder of the Weather Underground, a group that used violence in the 1960s and…
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Gov. Matt Blunt today issued a fiery statement responding to remarks by a St. Louis University political scientist in a St. Louis Beacon article. Professor Ken Warren told the Beacon that “unequivocally that the racist…
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Like the Japanese took the American invention of the automobile and created the Prius, the Obama campaign has taken the 2004 Dean for America online campaigning model to a whole other level. Aside from the…
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Before the sun has risen, nearly 300 people are already standing in line at Yeatman School in north St. Louis. Young and old are standing in the morning cold for a chance to vote for…
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John McCain was in St. Charles yesterday at a rally of a few hundred supporters. He later traveled to Columbia. Here are a few videos from the events by Post-Dispatch media reporter Adam Jadhav and…
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A recent New York Times/CBS poll found that for the first time, white voters are evenly divided between John McCain and Barack Obama, and Obama is faring better than his party’s recent candidates among that…
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The second Presidential debate is over. So who won? Who took cheap shots? What did you learn about the candidates? This is what I learned: Throughout the length of this entire campaign, Barack Obama has…
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