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A presidential campaign is many things: a pageant, a carnival, a steeplechase, the world's most extensive -- and expensive -- job interview. A vote for president is likely the most personal you will ever cast. The office may be remote from our daily lives, but we like to know the candidates as human beings, not mere dispensers of policy.
Campaigns have changed, pamphlets giving way to e-mail, the whistle-stop to helicopters and YouTube. But there is one constant. Words and pictures are mainly how we meet the contenders.
Times photographers spent weeks chasing the White House hopefuls, capturing them on the stump and during less-guarded moments. Their photos paint a portrait of the contenders, one of whom will carry our hopes and burdens into the Oval Office.
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Veteran political writers Don Frederick and Andrew Malcolm offer irreverent takes on the 2008 campaign.
Veteran political writers Don Frederick and Andrew Malcolm offer irreverent takes on the 2008 campaign.
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• Completed absentee ballots must be received by the elections office by the time the polls close at 8 p.m. on Feb. 5.
• The ballot includes local and state measures, and the presidential primary vote.
• For the presidential contest, Republicans may vote only for candidates in their party. Democrats may vote only for Democratic Party candidates.
• Voters who registered without declaring a political party -- "decline-to-state" voters -- may request a ballot and cast a vote in either the Democratic or American Independent Party primary.
• Find a polling place.
• See live results on election day.
• Read Times coverage of major party candidates and follow links to their websites.
• Visit politics websites, blogs and other online resources.
• The ballot includes local and state measures, and the presidential primary vote.
• For the presidential contest, Republicans may vote only for candidates in their party. Democrats may vote only for Democratic Party candidates.
• Voters who registered without declaring a political party -- "decline-to-state" voters -- may request a ballot and cast a vote in either the Democratic or American Independent Party primary.
• Find a polling place.
• See live results on election day.
• Read Times coverage of major party candidates and follow links to their websites.
• Visit politics websites, blogs and other online resources.
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