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Nixon's daughter contributed to Obama

One of the former president's daughters, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, apparently supports a Democrat in this year's presidential contest — Barack Obama.

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McCain: Winning black voters will be tough

April 21: Sen. John McCain recalls the bloody beatings of civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge while campaigning in Selma, Ala. (NBC News Web Extra)Seeking support in rural Alabama, Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Monday he knows it will be difficult to win over black voters who have supported Democrats for generations.


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Pa. Dems to cast votes in primary

Residents of the Fitler Square neighborhood of Philadelphia wait to vote in the Pennsylvania Primary at a neighbor's garage in Philadelphia, Tuesday, April 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)The six-week, increasingly hard-edged contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama culminates as voters register their choice — a decision that could save or sink Clinton's candidacy.


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Clinton facing growing debt to advisors

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at a campaign rally at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA on April 21, 2008, one day before the Pennsylvania Democratic primary.  AFP PHOTO / ROBYN BECK (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)As the financial gap between Democratic Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton grows, records show the Clinton campaign is now shouldering sizable debts to  key advisers and consultants


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NYT: Candidates lukewarm about dream ticket

April 21: A big win in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary could boost Hillary Clinton's chance at the presidential nomination, even though Obama is still leading in superdelegates and the popular vote. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.  (Nightly News)For months, the Clinton and Obama campaigns have been hearing suggestions of a so-called dream ticket of Obama/Clinton or Clinton/Obama, but the idea does not sound so good to the candidates themselves.


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