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<title>U.S. Politics Today: 2008 Presidential Election &amp; Lobbying News</title>
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<title>Biden helped thwart asbestos lawsuit overhaul - 8/27</title>
<link>http://uspolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185527315</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 01:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Senate Judiciary Committee and the Democratic vice presidential nominee, actively opposed a bill that would  ...  to kill the bill, Lawrence Fineran, a lobbyist who supported the measure, told the newspaper.  ...  Delaware, and considered to be a possible candidate for U.S. Senate if Democratic presidential hopeful  ...
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<title>History echoes all around for Obama&apos;s big speech</title>
<link>http://uspolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185527165</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 01:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  hopes to achieve, to challenge presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain and to assure Americans  ...  he&apos;s expected to emphasize throughout the fall campaign. He tied McCain squarely to President Bush.  ...  a tax code that doesn&apos;t reward the lobbyists who wrote it,&quot; he said, &quot;but the  ...
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<title>Putin Suggests U.S. Provocation in Georgia Clash</title>
<link>http://uspolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185526656</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 01:26 GMT</pubDate>
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...  create an advantage for one of the candidates in the competitive race for the presidency  ...  a flash point in the United States presidential campaign, with Senator McCain assailing what he  ...  adviser, Randy Scheunemann, has worked as a lobbyist on behalf of the Georgian government, and  ...
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<title>Obama to spell out his &apos;American Promise&apos;</title>
<link>http://uspolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185526618</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 01:26 GMT</pubDate>
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...  a major party in an American general election. In remarks released three hours before his  ...  a tax code that doesn&apos;t reward the lobbyists who wrote it, but the American workers  ...  America&apos;s rust belt that have decided recent presidential elections. For millions of viewers the prime  ...
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<title>Putin Suggests U.S. Role in Georgia Conflict</title>
<link>http://uspolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185524530</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 00:59 GMT</pubDate>
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...  create an advantage for one of the candidates in the competitive race for the presidency  ...  become a flashpoint in the United States presidential campaign, with Senator McCain assailing what he  ...  adviser, Randy Scheunemann, has worked as a lobbyist on behalf of the Georgian government, and  ...
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<title>Barack Obama tells ordinary Americans what &quot;change&quot; will mean for them</title>
<link>http://uspolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185524518</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 00:59 GMT</pubDate>
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...  a major party in an American general election. In remarks released three hours before his  ...  a tax code that doesn&apos;t reward the lobbyists who wrote it, but the American workers  ...  America&apos;s rust belt that have decided recent presidential elections. For millions of viewers the prime  ...
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<title>History echoes all around as Obama steps up to big speech</title>
<link>http://uspolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185519509</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 00:09 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the first African-American to accept a major-party presidential nomination and immediately set a JFK-like goal:  ...  hes expected to emphasize throughout the fall campaign. He tied McCain squarely to President Bush.  ...  a tax code that doesnt reward the lobbyists who wrote it, he said, but the  ...
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<title>Jimmy Carter: McCain &apos;Milking&apos; P.O.W. Experience</title>
<link>http://uspolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185511905</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 22:55 GMT</pubDate>
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... Former President Jimmy Carter said Republican presidential nominee John McCain has been &quot;milking every  ...  deflect answering important questions centering on his campaign for the White House. Carter says he  ...  last few months with every kind of lobbyist pressure that the right wing Republicans have  ...
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<title>DNC Bits: Getting ready for the big event</title>
<link>http://uspolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185508538</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 22:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  his mother talking about a young hotshot candidate named Obama and he became a fan  ...  acceptance by Barack Obama of the Democratic presidential nomination. Ellen Burstyn schmoozed at a table  ...  House Project in the Denver Post building lobby. The first African-American women in Congress, Chisolm  ...
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<title>Democratic far-left wing sees its best chance in decades</title>
<link>http://uspolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185506313</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 22:07 GMT</pubDate>
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...  by no longer requiring a secret ballot election to decide whether to unionize; more tightly  ...  lead us out of this.&quot; The business lobby is terrified, believing these proposed remedies would  ...  it &quot;ideological convergence.&quot; Indeed, after losing many presidential races, some Democrats, led by the corporate-funded  ...
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<title>Obama makes history with his own American dream</title>
<link>http://uspolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185505372</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 22:06 GMT</pubDate>
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...  convention and the most momentous and important election that this country has seen maybe in  ...  of war. He claimed prior to the presidential run Mr McCain was something of an  ...  the Republicans&apos; choice had agreed with &quot;every lobbyist pressure the right wing Republicans have presented  ...
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<title>Media&apos;s love for Obama not so bad</title>
<link>http://uspolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185502955</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 21:54 GMT</pubDate>
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...  coverage, its easy to tell that the presidential race is in full swing. But is  ...  million, Obama advisers have refused to take lobbyist money. This was possible because of different  ...  Thus everything we consider predictable in presidential elections might unfortunately be unavoidable. Josh Celvi, a  ...
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<title>Some Hillary Supporters Giving to McCain</title>
<link>http://uspolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185502780</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 21:53 GMT</pubDate>
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...  failed campaign, recently donated to the Republican candidate. Charles Dolan, head of the giant Cablevision,  ...  Obama. Ronald Book, one of the biggest lobbyists in Florida who represents clients as diverse  ...  and contributed the maximum to Hillary Clinton&apos;s presidential campaign earlier this year. Now, he&apos;s contributing  ...
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<title>Officials lobby for US support</title>
<link>http://uspolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185497412</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 21:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  convention. As Russia&apos;s intervention in its small neighbour gains in importance in the US presidential election, the Georgian government itself is lobbying hard to influence the leading candidates. David Bakradze, chairman of the Georgian parliament and  ...
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<title>Democratic Convention: Denver Diary day four</title>
<link>http://uspolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185493679</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 21:04 GMT</pubDate>
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...  stage after his accomplished speech accepting the vice-presidential nomination on Wednesday night. Last Updated: 8:59PM  ...  on a daily basis, is a Washington lobbyist, the boo-boys of the campaign. After Biden&apos;s big night, yesterday was all  ...
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