Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...retired general who will be the chief conduit of foreign policy advice to the new President, was the first Marine to serve as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and has an Eisenhower-like appeal to both parties. But he was not part of Obama's circle of campaign advisers and reportedly resisted initial overtures to take the job, fearing he could get caught in the kind of infighting that Rice faced when she was Bush's National Security Adviser. Obama promised Jones both the power and the access he needs...
...million votes cast in the 2008 Minnesota Senate campaign will have been reviewed by hand, a month after challenger Al Franken and incumbent Norm Coleman were separated by just a few hundred votes on Election Day. Franken maintains he's currently in the lead by 20 or so votes, while Coleman says he's ahead by thousands. The reason for the discrepancy: "challenged" ballots, which representatives from both campaigns say need further examination. The two candidates are slicing, dicing and dividing this bulky stack of votes differently so each can claim to be pulling ahead. After the Dec. 5 recount...
...only hope Coleman and Franken take a page from that more gentlemanly era, but it's not likely. The campaign was hard fought, bordering on nasty, with loads of negative advertising on both sides. Coleman sued Franken during the campaign for defamation - the case was thrown out of court - and the two teams have already been battling before judges over recount issues. Which brings to mind the most dramatic and important recount in American history...
...impossible to say how or when the Franken-Coleman contest will be decided. All that Minnesotans - and the next class of U.S. Senators - can do is wait. Anyone looking for early clarity is bound to come up empty. Case in point, this blog-post headline currently on Coleman's campaign-website homepage...
...COLEMAN CAMPAIGN: WE LEAD BY 2,200 VOTES!*** ***(Okay, Maybe Not, but Al Franken Does Not Hold a Lead in the Recount...