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Palin offers first TV interview to ABC News
(AP)
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AP - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin plans to sit down later this week for her first television interview since John McCain chose her as his running mate more than a week ago.
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McCain targets GOP and Bush along with Obama
(AP)
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AP - Barack Obama isn't John McCain's only opponent. Sometimes McCain sounds like he's running almost as hard against President Bush and the Republican Party as he is against Obama, his Democratic rival for the White House.
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Obama: Recession could delay rescinding tax cuts
(AP)
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AP - Democrat Barack Obama says he would delay rescinding President Bush's tax cuts on wealthy Americans if he becomes the next president and the economy is in a recession, suggesting such an increase would further hurt the economy.
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Obama's stump speech plays to fears, hopes
(AP)
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AP - As Barack Obama paces before 15,000 people with a hand-held microphone, it's easy to assume his 30-minute talk is more or less a free-associating string of talking points and applause lines.
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Biden challenges Palin to take questions
(Politico)
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Politico - Joe Biden is accusing the McCain campaign of sequestering Sarah Palin, his counterpart on the Republican ticket, and challenged her Sunday to sit for network interviews.
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Biden says he looks forward to debate with Palin
(AP)
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AP - Democrat Joe Biden says he's debated "an awful lot of tough, smart women" throughout his career and that next month's vice presidential debate with Republican Sarah Palin will be no exception. But he'd like to know where she stands on issues.
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Obama, McCain call for changes in mortgage giants
(AP)
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AP - Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Saturday that any government takeover of troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must put the interests of taxpayers and homeowners first. His opponent, GOP nominee John McCain, said it was essential to restructure the mortgage giants.
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McCain-Palin becoming Palin-McCain?
(AP)
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AP - The banners, buttons and signs say McCain-Palin, but the crowds say something else.
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Today on the presidential campaign trail
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AP - Obama, McCain suggest changes in Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac ... Republican vice presidential hopeful's church promotes prayer to make gays straight ... Presidential candidates plan joint appearance at Ground Zero to mark Sept. 11 attacks ...
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Democrats post big gains in voter registration
(AP)
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AP - Five days a week, Linda Graham trolls tattered neighborhoods of this once thriving steel city outside Pittsburgh for unregistered voters she can sign up as Democrats ? one of thousands of unknown volunteers whose work outside the limelight has already altered the basic arithmetic of the November election.
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McCain and Obama Vie Over Whether Palin Means Change
(Bloomberg)
- Bloomberg - Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Republican presidential candidate
John McCain defended his running mate, Sarah Palin, as having a
``clear record of doing what America wants,'' while Democrat
Barack Obama said her policies aren't much different from those
of President George W. Bush.
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Obama, McCain duel as race heads into home stretch
(AFP)
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AFP - Barack Obama and John McCain feuded and laid claim to being the authentic candidate of change and reform on Sunday as their White House showdown roared into a frenetic eight-week final stretch.
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Obama Says `Some Form' of Fannie-Freddie Intervention Is Needed
(Bloomberg)
- Bloomberg - Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama said government intervention to support Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac was necessary to prevent a sharper slowdown in
the U.S. economy.
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Palin will meet media in a "few days": McCain
(Reuters)
- Reuters - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has not
faced the U.S. media since her surprise pick to run for vice
president 10 days ago, will begin giving interviews in a "few
days," Republican presidential nominee John McCain said in
remarks aired on Sunday.
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Oil wealth masks challenges facing Alaska economy
(AFP)
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AFP - However much executive experience Republican vice presidential pick Sarah Palin has gained from her 21 months as Alaska governor, it is unlike that of any chief executive in the 50 US states.
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McCain touts Palin on foreign affairs
(Politico)
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Politico - Touting the credentials of his running mate, John McCain and his campaign suggest that Gov. Sarah Palin’s role as commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard qualifies as foreign affairs experience.
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Obama offers Palin a game of hoops
(AFP)
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AFP - Democrat White House nominee Barack Obama on Sunday offered to go one-on-one with Republican vice presidential pick Sarah Palin -- but only on the basketball court.
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Obama Tiptoes Around Palin, McCain Says She's What the Nation Needs
(CQPolitics.com)
- CQPolitics.com - Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama carefully steered clear of the issue of Sarah Palin's experience when pressed about it today but said that his Republican rival John McCain had chosen someone more aligned with the policies of the Bush administration than McCain himself.
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DNC flags end up at McCain rally
(Rocky Mountain News)
- Rocky Mountain News - COLORADO SPRINGS ? Some of the American flags that were waved by the thousands attending a rally for John McCain and Sarah Palin were also at Invesco Field at Mile High stadium, where Barack Obama gave his acceptance speech.
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Potential U.S. first ladies draw fashion buzz
(Reuters)
- Reuters - Cindy McCain or Michelle Obama for the
White House?
