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Doubletake: Juneau what I mean?
The SwampDoubletake, the summer ratings sensation, is back for the new fall season, albeit in sporadic fashion. This week, Tribune correspondent Jim Oliphant is following the Obama campaign and Tribune correspondent Jim Tankersley is stuck in St. Paul, Minn.,...Tags: David Lynch, Religion and Belief, Political Campaigns, Meteorological Disasters, Sarah Palin
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GOP convention texts 'GIVE 2 HELP'
The Swampby Mark Silva and Jim Tankersley ST. PAUL - It's that text-message business. In Denver, Barack Obama's celebratory night at the close of the Democratic National Convention opened with a call to everyone in the football stadium holding some 70,000......Tags: Republican Party, Mike Duncan, Disasters, Barack Obama, Natural Disasters
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Sarah Palin draws Obama-like TV ratings
The Swampby Frank James ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was a huge magnet for TV viewers, attracting nearly as many eyeballs as Sen. Barack Obama did on the last day of the Democratic convention, according to Nielsen, the......Tags: Republican National Conventions, Republican Party, John McCain, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin
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McCain: 'Ready to lead,' but where?
The Swampby Mark Silva ST. PAUL - Not since Democrat John Kerry, a Swift boat commander during the war in Vietnam, stepped onto the stage of his presidential nominating convention four years ago with a salute and said, "I'm John Kerry......Tags: Mitch McConnell, Prisoners and Detainees, Prisons, Mel Martinez, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Sarah Palin & party: Washington broken
The Swampby Mark Silva ST. PAUL -- "Don't you think we made the right choice?'' Sen. John McCain asks a cheering Republican National Convention of his running mate, Sarah Palin, who has just accepted the nomination for vice president with a......Tags: Mitch McConnell, State Budgets, Religion and Belief, Sports, George W. Bush
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GOP parley, marred by disruption: narrative unfolding
Spin CycleFor all the flag-waving and proper appearances, the Republican convention went far from perfectly, from the standpoint of logistics. When the third audible disruption came about 10 minutes into John McCain's big speech in St. Paul on Thursday, and...Tags: Republican National Conventions, Republican Party, Police, Unrest, Conflicts and War, John McCain
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For one LI delegate, Alaska has special meaning
Spin CycleAlaska Gov. Sarah Palin's starring role in St. Paul as the VP candidate led Jack Irwin of East Rockaway, representing "Irish for McCain," to remember 1952, when he was expecting to be sent to Korea, but then drew the cryptic......Tags: Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland), Sarah Palin, Government
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Olbermann, Matthews demoted by MSNBC
The Swampby Frank James Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews are being bounced from their MSNBC election-night anchor chairs, according to the New York Times. But before bashers of the so-called liberal media celebrate too much, they should keep in mind David......Tags: Republican National Conventions, Joe Scarborough, Democratic National Conventions, Hurricane Gustav (2008), Elections
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Rep. Bishop bucks request, tours Suffolk nursing home
Spin CycleRep. Timothy Bishop (D-Southampton) toured the John J. Foley Nursing Home in Yaphank last week, even though county sources say a top aide to County Executive Steve Levy tried to discourage the visit. Sources say that James Morgo, Levy???s chief......Tags: Employees, Health, Social Issues, Career and Workplace, Medical Services
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McCain-Obama poll: No bounces at all
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated. Follow the bouncing polls. Some say bounce, some say no bounce. Both Barack Obama and John McCain got bounces out of their presidential nominating conventions, according to the results of the Gallup Poll's daily track.......Tags: Republican National Conventions, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Democratic National Conventions, Elections
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Iraq calculus could tip presidential race
The Swampby Jim Tankersley and Christi Parsons Second in an occasional series, United States of Anxiety DOYLESTOWN, Pa. -- No war goes unremembered in Bucks County, and no soldier dies unheralded, even when the rest of the nation doesn't seem......Tags: John Kerry, George W. Bush, Political Candidates, Education, International Military Interventions
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Undecided voters 'engaged' in McCain
The Swampby Mark Silva There may have been a lot of people watching both of the presidential nominating conventions on TV this summer, but there apparently were a few more tire-kickers sizing up the product that the Republican nominee was selling.......Tags: Television, Republican National Conventions, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Entertainment
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