US voters braced for the most-anticipated vice-presidential debate in history on Thursday amid speculation that Republican Sarah Palin could stumble.
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/ 30 September 2008
US presidential candidate Barack Obama urged lawmakers on Tuesday to return to the negotiating table to work on a financial rescue deal.
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/ 30 September 2008
Barack Obama is opening a lead over John McCain after polls showed the public awarding Friday night’s debate to the Democratic candidate.
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/ 29 September 2008
When Raymond Wejroch took to the ice for the first time, ankles buckling in his skates and head bobbing in his helmet, it felt a bit like destiny.
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/ 29 September 2008
There is common sense; and there is good sense. Common sense represents the received wisdom of years and the widespread opinion of the day.
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/ 28 September 2008
White House hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain accused each other of playing politics with the financial crisis on Saturday.
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/ 27 September 2008
Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain battled over spending, taxes and the Iraq War in their first debate on Friday.
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/ 26 September 2008
Republican presidential candidate John McCain will take part in a debate with Democrat Barack Obama on Friday, his campaign said.
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/ 26 September 2008
The presidential debate, still scheduled for Friday, provides the first opportunity for voters to see John McCain and Barack Obama together.
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/ 25 September 2008
Just 40 days from the US general election, the financial crisis has transformed the White House race into a daring duel of political brinkmanship.
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/ 24 September 2008
A grainy YouTube video surfaced on Wednesday showing Sarah Palin being blessed in her hometown church three years ago by a Kenyan pastor who prayed for her protection from ”witchcraft”
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/ 24 September 2008
Democrat Barack Obama has opened a nine-point lead over Republican John McCain in the US presidential race amid turmoil in the financial system.
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/ 23 September 2008
Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama said on Monday the US will overcome the financial crisis that has sent shockwaves through Wall Street.
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/ 19 September 2008
White House hopeful Barack Obama reversed a Republican surge and bounded into the lead on Thursday in national polls swayed by the financial crisis.
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/ 18 September 2008
Democrat Barack Obama ridiculed his White House rival John McCain on Wednesday as a lifelong member of the "old boys’ network".
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/ 15 September 2008
The young governor from the remote state engaged in her own brand of shuttle diplomacy in the summer of 2007, even posing with some of her troops.
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/ 14 September 2008
The presidential campaign got nastier on Sunday as a newspaper revealed that Sarah Palin used her position as governor to give top jobs to friends.
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/ 13 September 2008
Barack Obama on Friday ripped into 72-year-old John McCain as an out-of-touch economic illiterate who had slept through the internet revolution.
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/ 11 September 2008
Republican vice-presidential pick Sarah Palin has given party nominee John McCain a jolt in several critical election battlegrounds.
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/ 11 September 2008
A spat over gender politics erupted on the US presidential campaign on Wednesday with John McCain accusing Democrat Barack Obama of a sexist attack.
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/ 10 September 2008
Barack Obama has launched an attack on his Republican rivals’ reformist credentials, likening their promise of change to putting "lipstick on a pig".
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/ 9 September 2008
Barack Obama ripped into John McCain and Sarah Palin as never before on Monday, accusing his Republican White House foes of ”shameless” dishonesty.
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/ 7 September 2008
Oprah Winfrey, America’s favourite daytime TV star, has refused to have Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as a guest on her talk show
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/ 5 September 2008
Republican John McCain cast himself as an independent-minded reformer on Thursday, and vowed ”change is coming” if he is elected president.
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/ 5 September 2008
Sarah Palin was on Thursday hailed as the single most important unifying force behind the Republican presidential nominee, John McCain.
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/ 4 September 2008
United States Republican presidential nominee John McCain has a new attack dog. Her name is Sarah Palin, and she bites hard.
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/ 3 September 2008
Sarah Palin has dominated the Republican convention for days without making a public appearance but on Wednesday she takes the spotlight.
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/ 2 September 2008
Not only did Gustav slow Republican presidential hopeful John McCain’s big convention party, it also spared him from Democratic criticism.
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/ 2 September 2008
A flurry of revelations battering Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin on Tuesday raised new questions about John McCain’s pick.
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/ 1 September 2008
Republicans open their convention on Monday to nominate presidential candidate John McCain with no pomp and little politics.
She hunts. She fishes. She was voted Miss Congeniality after winning a beauty pageant in her small town in Alaska.
Barack Obama launched a sharp assault on Republican presidential rival John McCain on Thursday with a promise to reverse the economic failures.