1.0 link 101488 <![CDATA[GOP Make Obama Focus In House Special Election]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/13/gop-make-obama-focus-in-h_n_101488.html Hoping to hang on to a Congressional seat in a tight special election here on Tuesday, Republicans in this mostly white and very conservative district are trying to make the vote more a referendum on Senator Barack Obama than on the candidates themselves.

In advertisements and speeches, Republicans have repeatedly associated Travis Childers, the white Democrat threatening to take the seat away from the Republican Party, with Mr. Obama. Republicans say Mr. Obama's liberal values are out of place in the...

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