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Palin Comes Out Fighting

added on 2008-09-07 09:00:36 (Washington Post - Politics)

ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 3 -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin electrified the Republican convention Wednesday night, pitching herself as a champion of government reform, mocking Democratic candidate Barack Obama as an elitist and belittling media criticism of her experience. ...more.

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Galvanized Parties Head to Homestretch

added on 2008-09-07 09:00:31 (Washington Post - Politics)

ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 4 -- Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama will begin the final 60 days of their general-election campaign with a political climate still more favorable for Democrats but with Republicans newly united and confident that they can compete for the undecided voters who still harbo... ...more.

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Criticizing McCain, Obama Keeps Focus on Economy

added on 2008-09-07 09:00:40 (Washington Post - Politics)

NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio, Sept. 3 -- Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday dismissed the ongoing Republican National Convention as a substance-free spectacle hiding behind Sen. John McCain's biography and ignoring the economic insecurity that many Americans are facing every day as he continued a swing... ...more.

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My Friends, That's a Record Audience for a Convention Speech

added on 2008-09-07 09:00:31 (Washington Post - Politics)

It was a nail-biter of a finish, but Republican presidential candidate John McCain edged out Democratic candidate Barack Obama by 500,000 people to win the 2008 Presidential Political Convention Ratings Race. ...more.

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Obama Rails Against Attacks From Palin, GOP

added on 2008-09-07 09:00:34 (Washington Post - Politics)

YORK, Pa., Sept. 4 -- For the first two days of the Republican convention, Sen. Barack Obama resisted pushing back against the attacks emanating from St. Paul, Minn. But on Thursday, the fourth and final day, his patience gave out, as he dismissed the barrage of criticism from the convention floo... ...more.

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Obama Met With Fox News Executives

added on 2008-09-07 09:00:43 (Washington Post - Politics)

ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 2 -- At a secret meeting with Barack Obama three months ago, Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes says, he tried to clear the air with the Democratic senator by saying that his organization was determined to be fair but would not be "in the tank" for Obama's campaign. ...more.

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Democrats Rebuke Lieberman for Obama Comments

added on 2008-09-07 09:00:38 (Washington Post - Politics)

ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 3 -- Democrats officially warned Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) on Wednesday that he could face repercussions for delivering a speech at the Republican National Convention in which he called Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama an "eloquent young man" who lacked... ...more.

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