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Oh, That Joe! (No. 40 in a Series) -- Oh, That Jill!


Friday afternoon in Kettering, Ohio, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., took the stage on the heels of a Halloween prank sprung on him by his wife Jill. "I tell ya what, some things never change," the Democratic vice-presidential nominee said to...

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Oh, That Joe! (No. 39 in a Series) -- Loquacious Blue Hen Comes Home


Thomas Wolfe may have said you can't go home again, but Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., Friday came home to his alma mater, the University of Delaware, where he told a crowd of 5,700 gathered on the Newark, Del., college quad...

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House GOP Leader Suggests Obama Is a "Chickens***" for Voting 'Present' in the Illinois Legislature


The Miami of Ohio student newspaper reports House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, appeared at Brick Street Bar and Grill in Oxford, Ohio, where he took aim at the myriad "present" votes cast by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in the...

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Obama: McCain Every Halloween Dresses Up as George W. Bush


HIGHLAND, INDIANA -- Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., tonight told a crowd of roughly 40,000 in this suburb of Gary, Ind., that he just finished trick-or-treating with his young daughters. "My girls were doing some trick or treating and, you know,...

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Member of Senate GOP Leadership: Palin Isn't Experienced Enough to be President


Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, sat for an interview on Nevada One's “NewsONE at 9." Reporter Jeff Gillan asked Ensign about the fact that "if you look at the polling, the people who...

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McCain Camp: Duberstein Lobbied to Be Our Transition Chief; Duberstein Calls that ‘Bulls***’


Reacting to the news that Ken Duberstein -- former White House chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan and an adviser to Sen. John McCain's, R-Ariz., campaign eight years ago -- today endorsed Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., four McCain campaign...

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Dubious-stein


Ken Duberstein, a White House chief of staff for President Ronald Reagan and an adviser to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in 2000, tells CNN that he will vote for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. "Well, let's put it this way," Duberstein...

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Obama Says John McCain of 2000 Would Not Approve of 2008 Incarnation, Praises Iowans for Vindicating his Faith


DES MOINES, IOWA -- Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., decried attacks coming from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., telling a crowd of 25,000 Iowans, "a couple of elections ago, there was a presidential candidate who decried this kind of politics and condemned...

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Obama Confused by McCain Ad


DES MOINES, IOWA -- Speaking in the state that launched his presidential career, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told Iowans today that he was confused by the new TV ad of his opponent, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that features Obama praising...

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Citing Space Constraints, Obama Campaign Kicks Off the Plane Reporters from Newspapers Whose Coverage it Doesn't Like


The Obama campaign has told three reporters they have to drop off the campaign plane this weekend. All three work for papers that endorsed Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.: the New York Post, the Washington Times, and the Dallas Morning News....

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