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Unpredictable Political Opinions In Northeast Pa.
Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:36:00 -0400
Oktoberfest weekend is a time for pierogies, polka and politics in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., home to a white, Catholic swing voters. But a lot of voters in Northeast Pennsylvania's former textile and mining communities are still undecided.
Obama Gaining Ground In Key Swing States
Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:34:00 -0400
The presidential election is four weeks from Tuesday. Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama debate in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday. The latest polls show Obama has pulled ahead of McCain in key battleground states. The economy is the big issue. The latest surveys show Obama is trusted more to handle the economy.
Obama Hopes To Alter Electoral Map
Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:32:00 -0400
Barack Obama's Democratic presidential campaign is threatening to alter the electoral map that decides the White House. Virginia has been a traditionally red state, but Obama has been working hard to make it a blue state. Other states that could swing Obam'as way include Florida, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Iowa.
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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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