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Get ready for the election with 'Presidential Campaign Posters'
Jacket CopyBefore the era of the 24-hour news cycle and weekly televised debates, the predominant and most creative outlet for presidential candidates to communicate their vision was the campaign poster. With "Presidential Campaign Posters" (Quirk Books, $40), the... -
A lot riding on Romney's 'Veepstakes'
With Mitt Romney all but officially anointed the Republican presidential nominee, the national political narrative now turns to the "Veepstakes": who Romney will choose for his running mate. From a policy point of view, this is arguably the most important...
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Republicans take the House: Fox News is strangely subdued
Show TrackerAt 9 p.m. on Fox News, Charles Krauthammer declared that the Obama agenda was dead; the only question being how much of it would be repealed. From “America’s Election Headquarters” Fox News had already projected a Republican takeover of th... -
Three years after Obama's race speech, he can joke about another man's skin color
Top of the TicketIs this progress? Funny? Could John Boehner make the same joke about Obama with no public comment?... -
Geraldine A. Ferraro, 1935 -- 2011; 'Housewife From Queens' Made Political History
The Daily MirrorJuly 13, 1984-- The Times’ Karen Tumulty profiles the Democratic vice presidential candidate: “Geraldine A. Ferraro likes to refer to herself as ‘a housewife from Queens,’ the conservative, blue-collar borough of New York where the... -
Geraldine Ferraro and the 'dark backward and abysm' of political time
Opinion L.A.About Geraldine Ferraro, who died over the weekend. There had been a rather unpleasant patch there in early 2008 after Ferraro, a supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton, told the Daily Breeze that "If Obama was a white man, he would...... -
Geraldine Ferraro dies at 75; shattered political barrier for women as vice presidential nominee in 1984
Geraldine A. Ferraro, the savvy New York Democrat who was embraced as a symbol of women's equality in 1984 when she became the first woman nominated for vice president by a major party, died Saturday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She was...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Child Abuse, Civil Rights, Jesse Jackson, Roman Catholicism
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'Everybody Say "Cheese!" ' is a slice of Garry Marshall's life
A playwright's work is never finished -- at least not for Garry Marshall.
Marshall, 74, began working on "Everybody Say 'Cheese!' " some 43 years ago. Four decades later, he's still futzing with it.
Just last week, the creator of "Happy Days," co-...Tags: Garry Marshall, Politics, Death, Jackie Gleason, The Dick Van Dyke Show (tv program)
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Behind the choice of running mates
Afinal nail has been driven into the coffin of one of the most venerable calculations in American politics by the selection of Delaware Sen. Joe Biden and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as running mates, respectively, of Barack Obama and John McCain. The...Tags: Education, Republican Party, Hillary Clinton, Richard Nixon, Regional Authority
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What were McCain and Obama thinking?
Today's question: How do Joe Biden and Sarah Palin fit in with the recent history of presidential campaigns? All week, historians Lee Edwards and Allan J. Lichtman debate vice presidential politics.
A shrewd gamble that could make history Point: Lee...Tags: Republican Party, Hillary Clinton, Regional Authority, History, Sarah Palin
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McCain's choice of Palin is a risk
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAmerican voters on Friday began learning about Sarah Palin. But the selection of an obscure Alaska governor as the Republican vice presidential nominee also offers clues about the leadership style of the man who placed her on the ticket. Though John...Tags: Republican Party, Hillary Clinton, Regional Authority, Sarah Palin, John McCain
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