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Campaigns trade barbs, but who started it?

August 1: John McCain campaign manager, Rick Davis, and the chief strategist for Barack Obama’s campaign, David Axelrod, respond to Davis’ comments saying Obama is playing the “race card.” (Today Show)Trading charges anew over who was guilty of injecting race into the presidential debate, a subject unlikely to fade away, the campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama also blamed each other Friday for its increasingly negative tone.


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Wal-Mart mobilizes against Democrats: report

Wal-Mart Stores Incis mobilizing U.S. store managers to lobby against Democrats in November's presidential election, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

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McCain-Obama battle turns to race

Sen. Barack Obama, shown at a town hall-style meeting in Rolla, Mo., on Wednesday, is sparring with the McCain campaign over whether his mention that he doesn't look like the presidents on U.S. currency is a subtle attack that his rival is using race as a wedge.Barack Obama and John McCain traded old-school political jabs Thursday, with McCain contending that he had been wrongly accused of planning a racial attack and Obama countering that his opponent was inventing a controversy to avoid talking about the issues.


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Ambition, emotion color McCain's mind

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks during a town hall meeting at Reed High School in Sparks, Nev., on Tuesday.Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican candidate for president, is ambitious and emotional, someone for whom "Duty, Honor, Country" is a credo to live by.


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Ludacris' song points to Obama dilemma

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and rapper Ludacris leave the senator's Chicago offices after a meeting on Nov. 29, 2006.A new rap song points to the dilemma facing Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, who wants the support of the hip-hop community but needs to steer clear of the controversy so commonly associated with its music.


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