Joe McCain, speaking at an event in support of his brother, called two Democratic-leaning areas in Northern Virginia "communist country," according to a report on The Washington Post's Web site.
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]]> McCain surrendered Michigan despite having outspent his opponent on television advertising ...If McCain can’t make it there, can he make it anywhere in the Rust Belt?
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]]> The real purpose of preparing his tax return and omitting the gambling winnings is so that people would not know how much he gambled. If he won $200,000 playing craps in Las Vegas, it would make a difference in the way voters viewed his suitability as a
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]]> Liddy called for the murder of federal agents, served time in jail, plotted murder - and after that, John McCain applauded him and took his money.
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]]> The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows Barack Obama attracting 52% of the vote while John McCain earns 44%. This is the highest level of support ever recorded for Obama and is his largest lead of the year. It also continue
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]]> See what happens when she doesn’t have talking points or a cheat sheet? This: ‘They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan,’ she told several hundred support
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]]> Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Sen. McCain’s senior policy adviser, said Sunday that the campaign has always planned to fund the tax credits, in part, with savings from Medicare and Medicaid. Those government health-care programs serve seniors, poor families and
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]]> "Everyone is losing confidence," said Mark Tan, who helps manage about $20 billion of equities and bonds at UOB Asset Management in Singapore. "The problem now is that the lack of foreign confidence could affect the Asian consumer, which would lead to
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]]> Over the last twenty-five years, Wall Street has been able to achieve its primary political goal: the erosion of the regulatory mechanisms put in place by the New Deal.
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]]> Barack Obama has taken on the McCain privatization plan in ads in Florida. He should take them on nationwide. Forcing people to manage their own retirement accounts is irresponsible.
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]]> Along with some of Wall Street's most storied firms, a certain vision of capitalism has collapsed. How we restore faith in our brand.
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]]> During the Savings & Loan Crisis, 747 Savings & Loans Banks Failed, Costing US Taxpayers $124 Billion; Deregulation Allowed Riskier Investments By S&Ls, Leading To Widespread Collapses And Fraud. McCain voted for deregulation.
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]]> "We are supporting Senator Barack Obama because of his judgment, experience, and ability to inspire people to come together around a common purpose," the letter said. "Senator Obama's talents offer an historic opportunity; for the sake of America's secur
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]]> Christian Broadcasting Network co-founder Pat Robertson, in a new update to his Web site, states that, "we have between 75 and 120 days before the Middle East starts spinning out of control."
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]]> Scientists using NASA's RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision, and they find that it is not a perfect sphere.
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]]> Astronomers who count sunspots have announced that 2008 is now the "blankest year" of the Space Age.
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]]> The illegal trade in wildlife is a global issue. From animal parts like tiger bones and musk glands to live reptiles, birds and ivory, poachers and smugglers illegally poach and traffic a variety of wild plants and animal species
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]]> Researchers at the Argelander Institute of Astronomy of the University of Bonn have discovered that brown dwarfs need to be treated as a separate class in addition to stars and planets.
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]]> Barack Obama might be the first major candidate for president to support same-sex marriage.

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]]> In most cases, this type of oversight on the part of a politician could be dismissed -- maybe even attributed to nerves. But when Afghanistan is exploding and on the verge of failure, details matter.
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]]> ...thinks the election has basically been lost over the last couple of weeks, that Republicans elsewhere in House and Senate races are also dropping, that this is looking to be a very very unfavorable election for them.
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]]> McCain has a very clear, long, and illustrious history of not supporting troops and veterans one bit.
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]]> This was an important political moment. Forget the Presidential election for a second. This was, politically, more important than that.
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]]> The scariest thing about John McCain's running mate isn't how unqualified she is - it's what her candidacy says about America
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]]> A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty
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]]> Joe Biden won the night. The word comes from former members of the Bush administration and even John McCain's former press secretary.
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]]> Why is this child up so late every time there is a camera op? Why isn't this baby sleeping in a crib or bassinet somewhere with a sleep sheep or some other sound apparatus lulling him into night-night?
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]]> There's an old saying in astronomy: "Galaxies are like people. They're only normal until you get to know them."
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]]> She was only small, but the fox terrier bared its teeth and growled menacingly at us. Its milk-swollen underbelly and protruding teats let us know it had a litter nearby. We kept a wary distance and spoke soothingly to the little mother.
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]]> Your click on the "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button helps fund free mammograms for women in need — low-income, inner-city and minority women whose awareness of breast cancer and opportunity for help is often limited. Your click is paid for...
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]]> Take action! Dont buy from Exxon, as you can see some people try to figure out how you boycott exxon mobil...what is so difficult about a boycott?
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]]> Jeroen van Beek, a security researcher at the University of Amsterdam, revealed his software that enables a user the ability to manipulate the data encoded on any RFID chip in any passport.
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]]> Mr Stephenson is believed to have taken his own life after succumbing to mounting personal pressures as the world's financial markets went into meltdown.
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]]> The Fed increased its existing currency swaps with foreign central banks by $330 billion to $620 billion to make more dollars available worldwide. The Term Auction Facility, the Fed's emergency loan program, will expand by $300 billion to $450 billion.
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]]> If the McCain campaign was willing to take credit for the success of the bill, does McCain also deserve credit for its failure?
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]]> The Republican candidate was widely mocked for including among her foreign policy credentials the geographic proximity of her home state of Alaska to Vladmir Putin's Russia. "You can see Russia from parts of Alaska," said Palin.
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]]> Bush's Disapproval Rating Highest in History...Just two presidents have had lower approval (Richard Nixon and Harry Truman) than President Bush, and none has had higher disapproval in polls since 1938.
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]]> The Republicans who voted down yesterday's bill did so in large part because they disliked the few things we liked about it: Namely, some oversight, tax and punishment provisions. They would rather we were all eating each other in rags than see a rich per
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]]> Senate is going to vote on the bailout bill tomorrow. The changes are apparently mainly in the area of loading it up with pork to grease its passage. Odds of passage? Pretty high. The idea is to get it passed in the Senate and then see if they can...
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]]> Obama plans to attend the concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on Oct. 16, the day after Obama's final debate with Republican John McCain at Hofstra University, located several miles outside the city in Hempstead, N.Y.
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]]> "In the S&L crisis, McCain took his advice from the worst [kind of] criminal. Charles Keating is the person he went to for his policy advice," Black said. "Now, he certainly is getting advice from Phil Gramm, Carly Fiorina, Rick Davis -- the whole group
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]]> McCain really thinks that Bush should just spend $1 trillion without talking to Congress, without seeking approval, without building any sort of consensus -- without getting any protections whatsoever for taxpayers.
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]]> Test your knowledge of bank failures, bankruptcy filings, mergers and bailout plans by taking the FCAT (Financial Crisis Aptitude Test) below.
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]]> John McCain was not only fully aware of the Bush Administration's Iraq War Agenda, but also that he actively helped make the argument for war.
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