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lenaastok: FOX News has announced that it will air "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West." The film, which is actually a year old, will be shown four 4 times this weekend to help Republicans scare their base to the polls. This blatant electioneering by a so-called news channel erases once and for all any pretense that FOX is fair or balanced.

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Bush Administration Moving to Block Second Life?

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denerath: In 2006, Congress passed the "Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act." The bill was vaguely written and voted on months before the '06 election. The bill's political purpose failed-- Republicans lost control of Congress, and the bill's primary House author, Rep. Jim Leach, was defeated in his reelection bid. Unfortunately, the law lives on.

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Campaigners for NYC's Bloomberg Taste High Life

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chilly-w: Perks await those who join Mayor Michael R. Bloombergs re-election campaign, from luxury hotels to jet rides. Bloomberg, defying country's mood of austerity, plans to spend $80 million on his reelection campaign this fall, even as he rolls out a battery of regressive sales taxes that hurt those who can least afford it.

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538.com Geek Nate Silver: Red States May Be Dying

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doctorphizzle: The stats guru crunches the numbers on geography as politics and discovers that the direction of the great American migration that helped create the Red State-Blue State divide may be changing and that it may significantly hurt the GOP in the next election.

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Visual Validations of the 50 State Electoral Strategy

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germanilia: These density-equalized electoral results cartograms quite literally show that upon closer examination, the United States aren't simply either "red states" or "blue states," but shades of purple.

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Who Will Win Pakistan Election 2008 :Cycle,Arrow,Tiger?

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listolga-lazareva: With the polling day of Election 2008 is only four days away, Arrow, Cycle and Tiger are riding high for majority in National Assembly and the Provincial Assemblies, and their emblems also represent their passionate and wary eying for the reins of power after the Feb 18 elections.

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Blame game: GOP forms circular firing squad

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g-panther777: With despair rising even among many of John McCains own advisors, influential Republicans inside and outside his campaign are engaged in an intense round of blame-casting and rear-covering-much of it virtually conceding that an Election Day rout is likely.

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Obama's Movement Gaining Momentum

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tobo3000: We won north, we won south and we won in between, Obama told a roaring crowd, referring to his victories over Washington and Nebraska. The Democratic Party must stand for change, not change as a slogan, change we can believe in. This election is important, but, more than that, it is also interesting.

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Twitters Hockey Stick Moment

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logvynenko: October was a good month for Twitter. All those election Tweets brought a 25 percent increase in U.S. visitors from the month before...

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Siliguri Election Result | Siliguri Municipal Corporation | Siliguri Municipal Election Results

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kirit111: The municipal election in Siliguri,ended peacefully on 13th September 2009. The election has emerged as a prestige fight between the Left Front, which held the previous board, and the Trinamool Congress-Congress alliance whose political graph in West Bengal is on rise. As per extimates, around 80% of people casted their votes. Source Link :- http://b4tea.com/news/siliguri-municipal-election-result

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Congress Prioritizes Jets-Pats 2nite Over Climate, Economy

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sally97: As President elect Obama put it on election night -- we're facing certain challenges as a country," says Mike Pesca, sports reporter for NPR. "Two wars, a planet in peril,

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Steve King only one to vote against recognizing slave labor

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penguinodoom: This past election season, he used Obamas Kenyan heritage and middle name to proclaim that terrorists would be dancing in the streets if Hussein Obama won. In 2008, King also said that apologizing for slavery wasnt about contrition, rather White Americans wallowing in guilt.

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Top 10 People we'll miss in 2009

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heart-shed: With control of the White House turning over in January and the impossibly long election of 2008 slipping into memory, there's a collection of political personalities we'll be hearing less from in the coming year and whose frequent presence in the news cycle will be sorely missed.

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Digg, CBS Interactive team up for political coverage

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6nocturno9: CBS Interactive announced Tuesday that its CBSNews.com property has teamed up with social news site Digg for online coverage of the 2008 elections. Through this partnership, the recognizable "Digg buttons" will be featured on CBSNews.com articles and videos that pertain to the election.

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