The embattled Republican senator says he'll reconsider running for a third term if he doesn't meet his fundraising goals.

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California's fair-elections commission is investigating a complaint against the Mormon Church's role in campaigning for Proposition 8, which made marriage illegal between people of the same sex.

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Barack Obama promised wife Michelle he would kick the habit if he stood for the White House. But he admitted during the election race he still has the occasional crafty cigarette.

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Bestselling author and controversialist Ann Coulter plans to crash Obama's inauguration party with her new work, GUILTY.

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NPR and other news sources are reporting a roiling debate in the Democratic party about what the election meant. As I understand it, there are at least two debates, although they intersect. One might be called "person vs.

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He talked about education. He praised teachers, and trashed standardized tests.

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As voters left the polls on Election Day, many were asked how they would have voted if the election match-up were between Hillary Clinton and John McCain rather than Barack Obama and McCain.

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Via TPM Election Central, a new Rasmussen poll shows that the election of Barack Obama has had an immediate impact on many African-Americans' views of America.

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One of the most extraordinary statements made on Barack Obama's victory in the Presidential elections was by Martin Kettle in Britain's Guardian newspaper.

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THE SWEEPING victory of Barack Obama in the presidential elections is a transformative event in U.S. politics, as an African American takes the highest office in a country built on slavery.

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Mr. Emanuel said that the best way for Democrats to avoid overreach in the next two years is by thinking "less ideologically and more in terms of future versus past." You have to "constantly be turning over the intellectual topsoil in order to stay fresh," he said.

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ON the morning after a black man won the White House, America's tears of catharsis gave way to unadulterated joy.

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The people in his campaign have learned it, the people in his soon to be completed cabinet are learning it, and pretty soon the people who voted for him will learn it well: President-elect Barack Obama will be forced to begin saying things he's not used to.

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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin fired back on Friday against post-election claims by aides to Republican presidential candidate John McCain that she thought Africa was a country, not a continent, calling the anonymous sources "jerks."

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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin swung back hard Friday against aides to John McCain who have criticized her foreign policy knowledge and pricey wardrobe purchases, calling them "jerks" who were too cowardly to speak publicly.

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It was a good day to be in the newspaper business. The historic November 5 editions proclaiming Barack Obama's White House victory flew off the newsstands and major newspapers struggled to keep up with the demand for copies.

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Democrat Kay Hagan won the U.S. Senate race in North Carolina on Tuesday unseating Republican incumbent Elizabeth Dole, a huge victory for Democrats in their drive to strengthen their control of Congress, Fox News projected.

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Democrat Barack Obama won a big victory over Republican rival John McCain Wednesday in Pennsylvania, one of three critical swing states that have played a decisive role in presidential elections for the past 50 years, U.S. television networks projected.

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I have been waiting for eight long, dark years to be able to write a column that can talk about what's right with America instead of what's wrong with America. I need to wake up tomorrow morning and hear that the United States has chosen to create a better history.

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Luxembourg's prime minister and the German and Dutch finance ministers backed Democrat Barack Obama to win the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday.

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Please Vote.

The world in which I live is broken.

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If many of you have not heard, there was a horrific story in the news where a 13-Year-Old rape victim was stoned to death in Somalia for adultery.

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Obama takes huge lead over McCain in opinion polls

With three days left for the US presidential elections, Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama has taken huge lead over his Republican challenger Senator John McCain in various opinion polls.

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IF JOE the Plumber were Jawad the Suspected Terrorist, civil-liberties activists would stampede the halls of Congress on his behalf. Liberal columnists would hyperventilate over the outrageous invasions of his privacy by Ohio state and local employees.

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