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					<description>Get Informed. Choose Your News.</description>
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				<title>Poll: McCain, Obama, Clinton in dead heat in election matchup</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/poll_mccain_obama_clinton_in_dea/</link>
				<description>Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton would both statistically tie Republican John McCain in a general election matchup, a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll indicates. According to the poll released Tuesday morning, both Obama and Clinton are locked in</description>
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				<pubDate>2008-03-18 08:14:54</pubDate>
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					<name>CNN</name>
					<link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/18/candidate.poll/index.html</link>
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				<title>Bush backing a risk for McCain?</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/bush_backing_a_risk_for_mccain/</link>
				<description>Bush and McCain exhibited solidarity in the Rose Garden on Wednesday when the president embraced the Arizona senator as the party's next standard-bearer. But neither offered anything definitive about what Bush's role would be in McCain's general election</description>
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				<pubDate>2008-03-06 08:16:23</pubDate>
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					<name>MSNBC</name>
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				<title>Nader Announces Run for President</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/nader_announces_run_for_presiden/</link>
				<description>Ralph Nader on Sunday announced a fresh bid for the White House, criticizing the top contenders as too close to big business and dismissing the possibility that his third-party candidacy could tip the election to Republicans.

The longtime consumer advo</description>
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				<pubDate>2008-02-25 08:18:54</pubDate>
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					<name>SF Gate</name>
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					<rating>Interesting [7]</rating>
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				<title>Calls for Bloomberg to make up his mind</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/calls_for_bloomberg_to_make_up_h/</link>
				<description>Nearly every day a tiny new development trickles out from the stealth presidential campaign of Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor of New York.

He has talked with Chuck Hagel and Sam Nunn , potential running mates. He has delivered a tart criti</description>
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				<pubDate>2008-01-11 08:19:23</pubDate>
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					<name>MSNBC</name>
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					<rating>Interesting [6]</rating>
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				<title>Thompson stirs few sparks on stump</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/thompson_stirs_few_sparks_on_stu/</link>
				<description>For Mr. Thompson, this is the start of a second and arguably critical chapter of his campaign after a much-delayed — and in the view of many Republicans, inauspicious — announcement tour in which he seemed unversed in the kind of issues that routinely</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-10-04 08:23:59</pubDate>
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					<name>MSNBC</name>
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					<rating>Interesting [7]</rating>
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				<title>California voters can't change the 2008 election rules on their own</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/california_voters_cant_change_th/</link>
				<description>Republican presidential candidates are crossing the country promising voters that they'll pick judges who will be &quot;strict constructionists&quot; of the U.S. Constitution. Meanwhile, Republican activists in California are trying to flout the Constitution in ord</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-09-14 15:58:37</pubDate>
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					<name>Slate</name>
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					<rating>Insightful [6]</rating>
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				<title>5-4 Supreme Court Weakens Curbs on Pre-Election TV Ads</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/5-4_supreme_court_weakens_curbs_/</link>
				<description>The Supreme Court yesterday substantially weakened restrictions on the kinds of television ads that corporations and unions can finance in the days before an election, providing special interest groups with the opportunity for a far more expansive role in</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-06-26 08:14:29</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>Washington Post</name>
					<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/25/AR2007062500548.html</link>
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					<rating>Important [8]</rating>
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				<title>John McCain Battles Group With Dueling YouTube Video</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/john_mccain_battles_group_with_d/</link>
				<description>Using the video site YouTube, the latest tool setting the 2008 White House race apart from past election cycles, Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign fired back at a conservative group Tuesday over its criticism of his fiscal policies.

McCain, R-</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-03-21 00:38:59</pubDate>
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					<name>FOX News</name>
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					<rating>Interesting [7]</rating>
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				<title>Edwards to keep bloggers on staff / Pre-campaign posts attacked religion</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/edwards_to_keep_bloggers_on_staf/</link>
				<description>John Edwards learned the hard way this week of the perils of trying to graft the raucous culture of the Internet to the decidedly more staid world of a presidential campaign. Edwards announced Thursday, after 36 hours of deliberation, that he would kee</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-02-09 10:31:18</pubDate>
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					<name>SF Gate</name>
					<link>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/09/MNGLQO1M261.DTL&amp;feed=rss.news</link>
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					<rating>Interesting [6]</rating>
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				<title>Judge Rules Against Ballot Computer Check</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/judge_rules_against_ballot_compu/</link>
				<description>A judge ruled Friday that the Democrat who narrowly lost the race to succeed Rep. Katherine Harris cannot examine the programming code of the electronic voting machines used in the disputed election.</description>
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				<pubDate>2006-12-30 02:34:16</pubDate>
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					<rating>Interesting [6]</rating>
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				<title>Changes Are Expected in Voting by 2008 Election</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/changes_are_expected_in_voting_b/</link>
				<description>By the 2008 presidential election, voters around the country are likely to see sweeping changes in how they cast their ballots and how those ballots are counted, including an end to the use of most electronic voting machines without a paper trail, federal</description>
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				<pubDate>2006-12-08 23:25:41</pubDate>
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					<name>New York Times</name>
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				<title>Ballots favored Dems</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/ballots_favored_dems/</link>
				<description>The group of nearly 18,000 voters that registered no choice in Sarasota's disputed congressional election solidly backed Democratic candidates in all five of Florida's statewide races, an Orlando Sentinel analysis of ballot data shows.</description>
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				<pubDate>2006-11-23 00:14:07</pubDate>
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					<name>Orlando Sentinel</name>
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				<title>Democrats take Montana seat, tie Senate</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/democrats_take_montana_seat_tie_/</link>
				<description>Democrats erased the Republican Senate majority today with a cliffhanger victory in Montana, hours after taking control of the House in an election that delivered a rebuke of GOP scandal, the Iraq war and the course of a nation.</description>
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				<pubDate>2006-11-08 14:20:34</pubDate>
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				<title>N. Mex. Not Enough Ballots -- GOP Voters Being Turned Away</title>
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				<description>Voters in a New Mexico district ran out of ballots after 2 hours of voting, forcing election workers to turn voters away without allowing them to vote.</description>
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				<pubDate>2006-11-07 23:35:30</pubDate>
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					<rating>Under Rated [8]</rating>
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				<title>Voting machine problems bedevil multiple states</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/voting_machine_problems_bedevil_/</link>
				<description>Election machine glitches caused delays and jangled nerves in at least three states today as voters began turning out for midterm elections that could set the tone for the last two years of President Bush's term in office.</description>
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				<pubDate>2006-11-07 14:57:25</pubDate>
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					<name>USA Today</name>
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					<rating>Under Rated [10]</rating>
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				<title>Ortega wins Nicaragua's presidential election: quick count</title>
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				<description>Former revolutionary leader Daniel Ortega won Nicaragua's presidential election with more than 38 pct of the vote, an electoral observers' group said, citing a quick count it conducted.</description>
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				<pubDate>2006-11-06 09:36:16</pubDate>
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					<rating>Under Rated [6]</rating>
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				<title>Distrust of voting machines is running high</title>
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				<description>An overhaul of the nation's creaky electoral machinery, inspired by the Florida presidential recount in 2000, will get its biggest test so far in the midterm congressional elections Tuesday - and some worry the cure might be as bad as the disease.</description>
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				<pubDate>2006-11-04 14:26:06</pubDate>
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				<title>Rep. paying ex-mistress about $500K</title>
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				<description>A Republican congressman accused of abusing his ex-mistress agreed to pay her about $500,000 in a settlement last year that contained a powerful incentive for her to keep quiet until after Election Day, a person familiar with the terms of the deal told Th</description>
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				<pubDate>2006-11-02 21:58:05</pubDate>
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				<description>Republicans and conservatives, brace yourselves! Strategists and consultants of both parties now believe the House is lost and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California will become speaker.</description>
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				<title>Bush meeting again with commanders in Iraq as Democrats increase pressure</title>
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				<description>President Bush is reviewing Iraq strategy with top commanders for a second day in a row as election-season pressure increases to make dramatic changes amid deteriorating conditions.</description>
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