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Battered Wall Street gives to Obama, McCain

Some of John McCain's and Barack Obama's biggest fundraisers are executives from the stricken financial services industry, which will need all the help it can get from whoever wins the White House.

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McCain races to stay abreast of economic crisis

The Republican candidate says the $85 billion government bailout of the world's biggest insurance company will protect millions of Americans from further financial hardship.

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Biden says economic woes awoke McCain

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday it took a financial crisis on Wall Street for Republican candidate John McCain to realize the U.S. economy is in trouble. "Where was he a week ago, a month ago?" Biden asked as he campaigned in suburban Toledo at the beginning of a two-day bus tour.

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Katie Couric to interview Sarah Palin

CBS anchor Katie Couric will spend two days on the road with the Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin as well as presidential hopeful John McCain, the network said Tuesday.

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McCain turns to embracing regulation

A decade ago, Sen. John McCain embraced legislation to broadly deregulate the banking and insurance industries. Now the GOP nominee is scrambling to recast himself as a champion of regulation.

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Hillary Clinton To Campaign For Lunsford In Lexington (WLEX-TV Lexington)

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will visit Kentucky on September 20 on behalf of Democratic Senate nominee Bruce Lunsford.

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Senator Hillary Clinton to Campaign in Elyria for Obama (WKYC Cleveland)

COLUMBUS, OH - Senator Hillary Clinton will visit Elyria and Akron on Sunday to campaign for Senator Barack Obama and discuss his plans to bring change to Washington.

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Biden Blunder: Joe Says Maybe Hillary Clinton Would Make Better VP (US News & World Report)

Hey, Barack, now even your running mate thinks Hillary Clinton may have been a better choice for veep.

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Hillary Clinton to appear at LCCC on Sunday (The Elyria Chronicle-Telegram)

ELYRIA — U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton will be back in friendly territory on Sunday when she returns to Lorain County to stump for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.Clinton, D-N.Y., is set to hold a rally for her former rival at Lorain County Community College. “Senator Clinton has been a strong champion of working Americans, [...]

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Hillary Clinton to campaign for Obama at Ellet High on Sunday (Akron Beacon Journal)

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will return to Akron on Sunday, but this time she'll be campaigning for her former opponent, Sen. Barack Obama.

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NBC/WSJ Poll: Presidential race turns into a dead heat

John McCain has nearly erased Barack Obama’s national lead and turned the presidential contest into a dead heat, according to the latest  poll.

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Obama's woes have nothing to do with 'lipstick'

For two years, Obama played the golf course of presidential politics with the ice-cold self-assuredness of a Tiger Woods.  But since securing the nomination, he’s made a series of blunders that could jeopardize his chances in November.

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Obama accuses McCain campaign of 'lies'

The Democratic presidential nominee is accusing his Republican rival's  campaign of "lies and phony outrage and Swift-boat politics" in claiming he had made a sexist comment about Sarah Palin.

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Newsweek: Obama and the Show-Me State

When it comes to presidential elections, Missouri knows winners. Since 1904, the state has voted for the eventual president in every contest except 1956. What are Obama's odds in Missouri?

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Lie or fact? Campaign heat warps truth

As the presidential campaign moves into a final, heated stretch, untrue accusations and rumors have started to swirl so quickly that they become regarded as fact before they can be disproved.

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Pro-Hillary Clinton group decries 'sexism' at Palin (The Hill)

A women's group that hosted Hillary Rodham Clinton during an event at the Democratic convention last week is expressing outrage "against misogynist smears" directed at Sarah Palin.

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Woman President: Clinton vs. Palin 52% to 41% (Rasmussen Reports via Yahoo! News)

Voters by a substantial majority think a woman is likely to be elected president of the United States in the next 10 years, and nearly half (48%) think Hillary Clinton is at least somewhat likely to be the one.

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Logan Nakyanzi Pollard: Palindromes. It started with Hillary Clinton and it's got to end with Hillary Clinton. (HuffingtonPost)

Hillary Clinton made an excellent show of her support for Senator Obama and the Democrats at the DNC party. But now is her moment to...

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Today’s Inbox: Hillary supporter speaks up (The Des Moines Register)

I am one of those Hillary Clinton supporters the political pundits have been preoccupied with. At a private gathering to watch Clinton deliver her convention speech, some of us brought beer to cry in, some wine to whine with, but all came to hear her words. Goose bumps when she called on the spirit of Harriet Tubman. Goose bumps the next night when she called for the acclimation vote for Barack ...

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What Clinton problem? (Salon.com)

A new poll shows that more supporters of Hillary Clinton are now ready to back Barack Obama.

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