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/ 26 October 2008
Democrat Barack Obama’s lead over Republican rival John McCain has dropped to five points, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll.
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/ 25 October 2008
John McCain, fighting for traction 11 days before the presidential election, said on Friday he has a tough battle against Barack Obama in Colorado.
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/ 25 October 2008
A John McCain campaign volunteer admitted she made up a story of being robbed and having the letter ”B” carved into her cheek by an assailant.
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/ 24 October 2008
Over the past few days, a music video entitled Red, White and Milf has appeared. It features a cowboy singing a song about Sarah Palin.
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/ 23 October 2008
A close-quarters struggle is evolving between Barack Obama’s vengeance-seeking Democrats and Republican John McCain’s crack ground troops.
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/ 22 October 2008
John McCain raised the spectre of nuclear war as he struggled to overcome rival Barack Obama’s widening lead in the US polls.
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/ 22 October 2008
Tina Fey says she glues her ears down for her impressions of Sarah Palin, but it took her a while to accept she was almost a perfect double.
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/ 21 October 2008
Hillary Clinton campaigned for Barack Obama on Monday, turning the populist fervour that enflamed their White House duel on to Republican John McCain.
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/ 20 October 2008
Republicans have race-baited in one form or other in most of our presidential contests since Richard Nixon’s time.
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/ 19 October 2008
John McCain compared Barack Obama to socialist leaders in Europe on Saturday, saying his rival wants to raise taxes on the wealthy.
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/ 18 October 2008
Sam, the hotel waiter, wasn’t at breakfast on Friday morning. For the three weeks I have been in Roanoke we have talked politics over the buffet.
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/ 17 October 2008
It came so close to being remembered as the hockey mom election. But, doggone it, hockey moms will just have to wait another four years.
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/ 17 October 2008
The presidency is not won or lost by televised knockabout, but Obama has taken the opportunity to confirm his credentials.
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/ 16 October 2008
John McCain went for the jugular in his final debate with Barack Obama on Wednesday as he sought to revive his flagging White House hopes.
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/ 15 October 2008
Republican John McCain has a third and final chance to debate his way back into contention when he faces Barack Obama in New York later on Wednesday.
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/ 15 October 2008
Democrat Barack Obama has a four-point national lead over Republican John McCain as the White House rivals head into their final debate.
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/ 14 October 2008
In a career littered with comebacks, Republican John McCain is now vowing one more effort to overhaul Barack Obama’s commanding poll lead.
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/ 13 October 2008
Republican hopeful John McCain has bowed to a growing chorus of condemnation over his personal attacks in the US election campaign.
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/ 13 October 2008
American voters have lost faith in the Republican party amid the economic meltdown, says a Republican strategist.
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/ 12 October 2008
Nothing typifies the plight of John McCain’s campaign more than the roller-coaster ride of his vice-presidential pick, Sarah Palin.
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/ 12 October 2008
Sarah Palin may be making all the headlines but in Canton, Ohio, it has always been about the economy.
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/ 11 October 2008
John McCain’s election campaign on Friday night suffered the body blow for which Republicans had been bracing themselves.
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/ 10 October 2008
Democrat Barack Obama has opened a five-point lead over Republican rival John McCain in the White House race, and expanded his support among women.
Though domestic concerns and the country’s future in Iraq will most likely decide the 2008 US election, something greater rests on the outcome.
After a lacklustre debate, John McCain now has less than four weeks to turn the race for the White House around.
Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama battled over the best way to help struggling US workers on Tuesday in a sometimes tense debate.
The US presidential debate slipped deeper into the mud on Monday as the Democrats joined the Republicans in dredging up damaging events.
On the eve of the second presidential debate, Democrat Barack Obama on Monday challenged Republican John McCain’s integrity.
Barack Obama counterattacked on Sunday by saying John McCain was more interested in a smear campaign than fixing the United States economy.
Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin accused Democratic candidate Barack Obama on Saturday of ”palling around with terrorists”.
Never before perhaps has such a tiny gesture assumed such electoral importance as Sarah Palin’s wink.
Republican Sarah Palin and Democrat Joe Biden clashed on the economy and Iraq during a lively but polite debate on Thursday.