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Mitt's Money

ABC News' John Berman, Ursula Fahy and Matt Stuart Report: Former Gov. Mitt Romney is his own biggest fan, at least if you judge by how much he has given his campaign. In the fourth quarter of 2007, Romney loaned...

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January 31, 2008 in Political Radar | Permalink | User Comments (38)

Obama: Immigration Has Become a 'Political Football'

ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Immigration and racial issues led the discussion during Sen. Barack Obama’s town hall in Los Angeles today. Speaking before a crowd of 1,600 predominately Hispanics, Obama addressed the issue of immigration being used as a...

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Live-Blogging During Democratic Presidential Debate by Rick Klein

9:53 pm: My take: This is one of those debates where you could call it based just on your predilections -- enough for both sides to declare victory, and not a debate that's likely to change many minds. Indeed, it...

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McCain Finishes '07 With Strong Fundraising Haul

ABC News' Tahman Bradley and Ron Claiborne Report: Republican frontrunner Sen. John McCain had his best fundraising quarter the last three months of 2007, raising $9.9 million for his presidential campaign, according to financial documents filed Thursday with the FEC....

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Schwarzenegger Endorses McCain

ABC News' Bret Hovell Reports: California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday that former New York Rudy Giuliani’s decision to drop out of the race for the White House made him comfortable endorsing Senator John McCain. "It's all Rudy's fault," Schwarzenegger...

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Obama Raises $32 Million in January

ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Barack Obama's presidential campaign raised a whopping $32 million in January alone. The number is the highest any candidate has raised in a single month and matches Obama's best three-month period from last year. In...

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Reid on Obama and Clinton: 'I Need Them Back'

ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf Reports: Senate Democrats held a special meeting Thursday to decide on two bills both with a deadline of February 15. In between now and then...is Super Tuesday. No final decisions on either the FISA update...

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Bill Clinton Undeterred By 9/11 Hecklers

ABC News' Sarah Amos Reports: Former President Bill Clinton took the phrase "on-message" to a new level in Denver yesterday, when hecklers began shouting about how September 11th was a conspiracy theory that needed further investigation. Clinton had just begun...

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Seven Days from Bush to Hezbollah

Lara Setrakian, part of our recent expansion of reporters stationed around the globe, blogs from Dubai: Last week was a reporter’s dream, in the sense that it was full of “firsts” that helped me understand the Arab/Muslim space I now...

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January 30, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (1)

Schwarzenegger To Endorse McCain in Los Angeles

ABC News' Jake Tapper Reports: At 9:30 am Pacific Time, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sen. John McCain will tour Solar Integrated Technologies in on east Martin Luther King Jr. Bvld in Los Angeles, where Schwarzenegger will endorse McCain. The...

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