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Questions And Answers On Voting Rules
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:06:00 -0400
As Election Day draws near, listeners and readers from around the country have been submitting questions about voting regulations. NPR's Pam Fessler answers some of those most frequently asked.
Union Leader Confronts Race Issue In Campaign
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:03:00 -0400
A top labor leader is making an unusually blunt pitch to working-class white voters in key battleground states. Richard Trumka, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, urges members to ignore race and vote for Barack Obama.
Obama Sees New Mexico As Must-Win State
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:27:00 -0400
New Mexico's Hispanic voters helped put George Bush in the White House in 2004. Barack Obama's supporters are out in force to try to keep the state from going Republican again in 2008.
The Talk of the Town
The Editors: The better candidate for 2008.
The Editors Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Never in living memory has an election been more critical than the one fast approaching--that’s the quadrennial cliché, as expected as the balloons and the bombast. And yet when has it ever felt so urgently true? When have so many Americans had so clear a sense that a Presidency . . .
Steven Kurutz: Sarah Palin and the Washington tanning lobby.
Steven Kurutz Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Of the many things revealed about the Alaska governor Sarah Palin since she became John McCain’s running mate last month, one of the most curious is the fact, reported two weeks ago, that she had a tanning bed installed in the state mansion in Juneau. Obama supporters seized on the . . .
Nick Paumgarten: Goldman Sachs alums contemplate the future.
Nick Paumgarten Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Last Thursday evening, around the time the Treasury Secretary and former Goldman Sachs chief executive Henry Paulson was down on one knee, begging the congressional leadership not to scuttle his seven-hundred-billion-dollar bailout plan, Lloyd Blankfein, his successor at Goldman, was hosting a private reception at the Public . . .
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