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Obama Addresses Crowd in Downpour; McCain Cancels

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tuesday was a tough day to be outside in Greater Philadelphia. The rain poured and the wind howled. The weather turned so nasty that the fifth (and po...

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McCain Campaign's Old White People Strategy

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011

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McCain's strategy is that there is enough of a "Bradley effect" that the election is 3%-5% closer than the polls indicate, and that scare tactics can convince another 3%-5% of white voters not to vote Obama.

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The Hoover-Palin Ticket

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

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The hero of the hour is FDR, as the essential wisdom of his New Deal is now embraced by most Republicans as well as Democrats.

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Hayden Panettiere says, Register to Vote!

Paige Donner | Posted 05.25.2011

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"When we want to make changes, it's not enough to protest or march. We need to contact our congressmen and elected officials to tell them how we feel about issues."

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Earth to McCain: It's a Crisis

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gag me with a spoon, as Valley girls used to say. Did you see that McCain-Palin ad promising "tougher rules on Wall Street to protect your life savings, no special interest giveaways"? How dumb do they think we are?

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News About This HIV Thing, When We're Done Discussing the Governor's Cool Eyeglasses

Harold Pollack | Posted 11.17.2011

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Is Sarah Palin's grandchild a boy or a girl? I wonder where she gets those eyeglasses? I was meaning to ask about something else....Oh yeah. What's happening to the HIV epidemic in the US?

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Palin's Alaska Reaps the Windfall Profits McCain Decries

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Looking to Palin for advice on helping the rest of us during the oil crunch is a bit like asking Putin to provide a model for our nation's economic woes. They hardly feel our pain at the pump.

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Congratulations GOP Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin

Paige Donner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dear Sarah Palin, Congratulations on your pick as McCain's V.P. As McCain's right-hand (wo)man to his Commander-in-Chief much will be expected of yo...

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Obama's 3 AM Phone Call

Melissa Hapke | Posted 05.25.2011

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I'm so sleepy, I can make out the text but even thinking about what Obama and Biden are going to have get busy doing in the next few months and, if they win, in the next few years -- no, I can't go there, too exhausting.

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Sucking Up to the Bankers: A Bipartisan Lovefest

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Both of our leading presidential candidates are scrambling to enlist the "expertise" of the very folks who advocated the financial industry deregulations at the heart of this meltdown.

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Unity: Not Exactly Woodstock '69, But Close

Beverly Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's the season premiere 2008 general election campaign. The music will be blaring, the crowd jumping, the loudspeakers booming. But the real story is that Democratic "unity" is well under way.

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Obama vs McCain: Digging-In or "Standing Ready"

Beverly Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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This weekend Barack Obama ditched his suit, picked up a shovel and started filling sandbags in the Midwest flood zone. John McCain sent a press release from a private fundraiser in Riverside, California.

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What Makes McCain Tick?

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Will the real John McCain stand up? Actually, I don't expect him to, now that he is the Republican presidential candidate, he is pandering to the irrationalities that drive his party.

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Paying for War at the Pump

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

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There is no better measure of the failure of Bush's foreign policy than that the American taxpayers who paid for the invasion of Iraq are now being rewarded with skyrocketing prices at the pump.

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Turning Tables In The Temple: Obama In Grand Rapids

Dan Treul | Posted 05.25.2011

The genius of the rally lay, appropriately enough, in its sheer audacity. West Michigan is solid GOP right-wing evangelical country and the Van Andel Arena is it's temple. How would Obama fare in lions' den?

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The $109 Million Dollar Question: Is Clinton Really A Populist?

Dan Treul | Posted 05.25.2011

This weekend, as Clinton defended her gas tax proposal against what she described as the "elite opinion" of professional economists, I, like so many others, had to ask the obvious question: Since when does a Clinton get off as such a populist?

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Clinton Threatens to 'Obliterate' Iran

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Shouldn't the potential leader of a nation that used nuclear bombs to obliterate hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese employ extreme caution before making such a threat?

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Reading The Pictures: The Wimp Factor-y

Michael Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's not that "Obama is starting to look more like Kerry," so much as "The Factory" is cranking up the campaign to make it look that way.

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Hillary's Ignominious Finale

Marc Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

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Clinton, in her best moments, is certainly capable of something more than a torrent of peevish, petty, picayune, and intellectually dishonest bickering and parsing.

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Michigan Superdelegates Tense As March 4 Primaries Near

Dan Treul | Posted 05.25.2011

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Keith Evenhouse, Cheyna Roczykowski, and John Taylor contributed to this report. With some wondering aloud how far a campaign can fall before it hits...

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Primary Results Elicit Mixed Reactions From Michigan Young Republicans

Dan Treul | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dirty Leaflet Campaign Launched Against Clinton

Dan Treul | Posted 05.25.2011

A leaflet scattered about Grand Rapids, Michigan today is urging voters to "let your voice be heard"... so long as that voice isn't for Hillary Clinton.

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Obama Storms Vegas and Chides Clinton

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

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Henderson, NV -- Just three days before the "tie-breaker" Nevada caucuses this coming Saturday, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama storme...

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Clinton Campaign: "First and Goal"

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

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Indianola, Iowa - On the last full day of campaigning before Thursday night's caucuses, Senator Hillary Clinton and her Democratic rivals John Edward...

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Clinton Campaign Stung By Third-Place Finish

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

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Des Moines - After a stunning defeat and finishing third in Thursday night's Democratic caucuses, Senator Hillary Clinton congratulated Barack Obama a...

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