Greg Craig's Memo Regarding Blagojevich Contacts

On Change.gov - The 5-page Greg Craig memo to PE Obama on Transition Team contacts with Gov. Rod Blagojevich. [pdf warning]

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Atheist Sign Joins Capitol Holiday Display This Year

An atheistic sign is included in the [Washington] state Capitol's holiday display that includes a holiday tree and a Christian nativity scene.

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Mail-ins May Slow Results in Colorado

Most county clerks in the big Front Range counties said they expect to go into Election Day "clean," meaning the only votes left to count will be those cast Tuesday. But that has not stopped some clerks from casting a wary eye at the number of mail-in ballots still to be returned.

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Deal Ensures 20,000 Taken Off Rolls Can Vote

Voting-rights activists cut a deal with Colorado's secretary of state late Wednesday that will ensure some 20,000 voters removed from state rolls will get to cast a ballot. and

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GOP Voter Registration Fraud Case Leads to Arrest

The owner of a firm that the California Republican Party hired to register tens of thousands of voters this year was arrested in Ontario late last night on suspicion of voter registration fraud.

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McCain: Ayers Will Come Up in Debate

John McCain said Tuesday that Barack Obama is "probably ensured" that his association with 1960s radical William Ayers will come up in Wednesday's debate.

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Christopher Buckley Endorses Obama

Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon. It's a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive. They'd cut off my allowance.

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Obama's Links to Ex-Radical Examined

"It was never a concern by any of us in the Chicago school reform movement that he [Bill Ayers] had led a fugitive life years earlier," said former Illinois state Republican Rep. Diana Nelson, who worked with both Obama and Ayers over the years. "It's ridiculous.

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Business Cool Toward McCain's Health Coverage Plan

American business, typically a reliable Republican cheerleader, is decidedly lukewarm about Senator John McCain's proposal to overhaul the health care system by revamping the tax treatment of health benefits, officials with leading trade groups say.

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Who You Callin' a Maverick?

"I'm just enraged that McCain calls himself a maverick," said Terrellita Maverick, 82, a San Antonio native who proudly carries the name of a family that has been known for its progressive politics since the 1600s, when an early ancestor in Boston got into trouble with the  …

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Biden's Unified Theory of Biden

Joe Biden was so disciplined during the vice presidential debate, so brief (under five minutes!) in his speech bidding farewell to his son Beau and other members of his Delaware National Guard unit heading to Iraq, that his inner self sought some release, some way of saying, "Hey …

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[Draft] Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

The first Discussion Draft of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (the Bailout Bill) has been released. Note that this link is to a 106-page .pdf of the draft bill.

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McCain Calls Govt. Officials Handling Bailout

Many of John McCain's supporters were critical of Barack Obama's initial decision to not travel to Washington D.C. in the midst of bailout negotiations last week. Now that the Thursday meeting has occurred, as has yesterday's debate, it appears that Sen.

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Obama: No Blank Check

Even if the Treasury recovers some or most of its investment over time, this initial outlay of up to $700 billion is sobering. And in return for their support, the American people must be assured that the deal reflects some basic principles. • No blank check...

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Treasury's Bail-Out Proposal

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