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WASHINGTON — More than 75 percent of all candidates running for President, Congress, governor, and state legislature said, “No,” when asked if they were willing to tell the voters their positions on the issues they’ll most likely face on their behalf.”
That’s the result of Project Vote Smart’s twelve-year study measuring the [...]

PRNewswire
NEW YORK, Oct. 29, 2008 — There will be a record increase in voter turnout in the youth vote that will decide the 2008 Presidential Election, according to Eric Greenberg, author of “Generation We: How Millennial Youth Are Taking Over America and Changing Our World Forever.”
“The evidence so far indicates a massive increase in youth [...]

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FAIRFIELD, N.J., Oct. 30, 2008 — AJ Khubani, successful entrepreneur and “The King of the Infomercial,” was highly critical of Barack Obama’s 30-minute broadcast Wednesday evening, calling it a “missed opportunity” that offered “no real solutions” and was “full of fluff.”
“Barack Obama: American Stories” was broadcast in primetime on CBS, Fox, NBC, BET, Univision, TVOne [...]

By Parke Brewer
Voice of America
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 30, 2008 — The Philadelphia Phillies are the 2008 World Series baseball champions, after beating the Tampa Bay Rays, 4-3, in a game that had been suspended Monday night because of rain.
The Philadelphia Phillies of the National League have won the best-of-seven World Series against the American League’s Tampa [...]

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LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 29, 2008 — Gov. Dave Heineman today said he will call a special session to amend Nebraska’s safe haven law. The session will begin Nov. 14.
“After consulting with the Speaker of the Legislature, I am calling a special session for November 14 to correct Nebraska’s safe haven law,” Heineman said.  [...]

Voice of America
The U.S. State Department says baseball great Cal Ripken, Jr., will visit Nicaragua in mid-November in his role as an American public diplomacy envoy.
A statement issued Wednesday says Ripken will make the five-day trip with Nicaraguan native Dennis Martinez, who played with Ripken for the Baltimore Orioles.
During the trip, Ripken and his group [...]

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COLUMBIA, Mo., Oct. 28, 2008 — News organizations are burning out reporters by demanding that they use more and more different types of technology to tell their stories, leading journalists said at a National Press Club forum at the University of Missouri Monday.
Yet there is scant evidence that this new technology is bringing in enough [...]

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CHICAGO, Oct. 29, 2008 — With the election less than seven days away, voting for a new president is on the minds of many workers.
Nearly nine-in-ten (87 percent) workers say they will be voting in the 2008 presidential election, according to a CareerBuilder.com nationwide survey of more than 6,100 workers. Forty-one percent of workers say [...]

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WEST CALDWELL, N.J., Oct. 28, 2008 — If Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats win next Tuesday’s election, they will likely have far more negative impact on the economy and American jobs than most voters realize, says Peter A. List, editor and chief blogger of EmployerReport.com.
“Very few Americans realize that Democrats have become the bought-and-paid [...]

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NEW YORK, Oct. 28, 2008 — Barack Obama continued to widen his lead on many fronts in the media coverage race during the past week, but with a week to go until Election Day, opponent John McCain managed to narrow the gap in some battleground states, according to results from the Dow Jones Insight-2008 Presidential [...]