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  • A month after Oprah hit the campaign trail with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, the queen of day time talk is facing heat from her largely female fans who have traditionally agreed with just about anything she has done  from the books she reads to the weight loss plans she tries.
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  • Obama Campaign addresses plagiarism charge
  • Obama admits that he should have given credit for his words in a recent speech.
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  • McCain tries to keep freewheeling style
  • John McCain's presidential campaign has been likened to a pirate ship.
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  • Clinton, struggling for momentum, reached out to Wisconsin's working class families.
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  • Clinton issues economic plan
  • Clinton's campaign released a 13-page blueprint for fixing the economy Monday.
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  • Republican John McCain says there will be no new taxes during his administration if he is elected president.
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  • Hillary Rodham Clinton renewed her call Saturday to debate Democratic rival Barack Obama in Wisconsin before Tuesday's primary, even as she acknowledged she would cease campaigning in the state a full day before voters go to the polls.
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  • Temper, temper. Republican John McCain is known for his.
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  • Chelsea Clinton
  • Chelsea Clinton tells students about her mother's plans for the economy and mortgages. The former first daughter outlines Hillary Rodham Clinton's concern about Darfur and women's rights. She ticks through talking points on electability, health care and the environment.
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  • John McCain is a "true conservative," President Bush says, but he may have to work harder to convince conservatives.
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  • Barack Obama defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton in Maine presidential caucuses Sunday, grabbing a majority of delegates as the state's Democrats overlooked the snowy weather and turned out in heavy numbers for municipal gatherings.
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  • Mike Huckabee took two out of three states over John McCain Saturday
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  • Illinois Sen. Barack Obama swept Saturday night's Democratic presidential nomination contests, earning key delegates in a neck-and-neck race with New York Sen. Hillary Clinton that may not be decided until the party's convention this summer.
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  • Maine Democrats faced snow and bitter winds as they headed to municipal caucuses Sunday to declare whether they favor Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barack Obama as their party's presidential nominee.
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  • Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton replaced campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle with longtime aide Maggie Williams on Sunday, engineering a shake-up in a presidential campaign struggling to overcome rival Barack Obama's financial and political strengths.
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  • Illinois Sen. Barack Obama swept tonight's Democratic state contests, earning key delegates in a neck-and-neck race that may not be decided until the party's convention this summer.
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  • Sen. Barack Obama won caucuses in Nebraska and Washington state and battled Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Louisiana primary Saturday night in a bid to chip away at her slender delegate lead in their historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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  • Mike Huckabee is the big winner in today's Kansas Republican presidential caucuses.
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  • Sen. John McCain barnstormed through a skeptical South on Saturday, campaigning for a Super Tuesday knockout in the Republican presidential race. Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton worked the West on the final weekend before primaries and caucuses in more than 20 states.
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  • With 72 hours to go before Super Tuesday, and with some two dozen states at play, the candidates are hop-scotching the country this weekend, trying to scoop up delegates like pebbles.
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  • The candidates are making their final push toward the biggest primary day.
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  • The Republican presidential candidates spent the day wooing Florida voters who go to the polls on Tuesday.
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  • Sen. Barack Obama, vying to become the nation's first black president, has won the South Carolina primary today, ABC News projects, boosted by huge turnout of African-American voters in a state whose electorate appears polarized along racial lines.
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  • With more crucial contests coming up, the competition is getting fiercer. Members of the same political parties are becoming more aggressively criticizing one another.
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  • The war of words between former President Clinton and Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama escalated today as Clinton accused his wife's Democratic rival of saying the Reagan administration was better than the Clinton administration.
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  • Six days before South Carolina Republicans go to the polls, the spat between the Southerners who need to win that crucial primary -- former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee -- continues to get uglier and uglier, even as both men tread more lightly on the candidate who leads the most recent poll in that state, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
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  • The back-and-forth between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama over who said what and what they meant by it has entered new unfriendly territory.
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  • A coalition of California Latino leaders announced their support of Barack Obama today in press conference held in the Obama for America Los Angeles Headquarters.
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  • Republican presidential hopefuls pounded the campaign trail Saturday in Michigan, where GOP voters hit the polls in just a few days.
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  • The plane carrying Sen. Barack Obama struck another plane while taxiing at Midway Airport in Chicago early Saturday morning.
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  • With nomination contests in lily-white Iowa and New Hampshire settled, minority voting power now moves into the spotlight.
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  • A day after getting an endorsement from Nevada's biggest union, Barack Obama picked up another endorsement from a fellow senator.
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  • Valley political activists are protesting the exclusion of a republican candidate from Sunday night's debate on Fox News Channel.
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  • With only two full days left before the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary, the leading Republican presidential candidates square off against one another in an expectedly highly charged Granite State debate hosted by ABC News, Facebook and WMUR, the local ABC affiliate station.
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  • Barack Obama got some unexpected help in his first clash of tonight's New Hampshire debate with Hillary Clinton: John Edwards, who snatched second place from Clinton in Iowa's caucus on Thursday.
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  • Uplifting appeals largely replaced stinging insults Tuesday in Iowa.
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  • View pictures from Obama's childhood through his election as President.
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  • More than 65 million people watched Election Night returns Tuesday on the main broadcast and cable news networks.
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  • Newspapers around the world printed the results of the historic election on their countries newspapers.
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  • Obama addresses the crowd on Election Night.
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  •  Arizona Democratic Partys election night
  • Americans across the nation gather and celebrate a historic night.
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  • Barack Obama Elected the 44th President of the United States
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  • A look at the past Presidents of the United States
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  • Both candidates are counting on a large turnout for Election Day.
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  • Tim Robbins had to get a court order before he was allowed to cast his vote for president.
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  • Voters in a New Hampshire town already know who their pick for president is.
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  • John McCain is home in Arizona Tuesday morning where he'll cast his vote later today. He capped off two years of campaigning with a middle of the night rally.
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  • After campaigning across several states, Barack Obama is in Illinois this morning.
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