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...than John McCain will. McCain is widely known as a maverick whose votes have not always aligned with most Republicans. Although he has publicly denied it, McCain is heavily rumored to have considered leaving the Republican Party in 2001. In an interview with The Hill, former Senator of South Dakota Tom Daschle said there were intensive talks to bring him over to the Democrats. This history will not incentivize disenchanted Republican voters to turn out in the 2008 presidential election. Rice, on the other hand, is a Republican through and through. In her tenure as Secretary of State...
...Tuesday night in Montana, the last Democratic primary in the nation ends, one hour after the polls close in South Dakota. The fourth-largest state in terms of area (but with fewer than one million people and only three electoral votes) was long accustomed to being flown over by presidential candidates. But this year, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are working hard to pick up a majority of the 17 delegates apportioned by primary voters, plus eventual endorsements from eight independent superdelegates...
...power of numbers, it really, actually, finally is. Barack Obama has a roughly 176-delegate lead and is less than 60 delegates short of clinching the nomination, with most of the final 31 pledged delegates set to be divvied up by Tuesday night in Montana and South Dakota. A plug of superdelegates is expected to jump on his bandwagon shortly after those primaries, if not before. Then, both sides expect, he'd have the 2,118 delegates needed to put the nomination in is pocket...
...civil rights - and, in an even bigger stretch, the election standoff in Zimbabwe. But the meeting is Clinton's last remaining glimmer of hope to catch Obama, who currently leads the race by around 160 pledged delegates, with only three primaries remaining, in Puerto Rico, Montana and South Dakota...
...bulk of Canada's new energy will get pushed through an expanded pipeline network straight to waiting U.S. upgrading plants and refineries, a majority of which are located in such Midwestern states as Minnesota, North Dakota and Ohio. Shell, Chevron, British Petroleum and Total S.A. of France, along with about 20 smaller but no less ambitious players, are also transforming Alberta's boreal oil patch into the primary supplier of feedstock for an integrated North American energy market. "Canada is extremely important to U.S. energy security," says Rob Routs, executive director of oil sands at Netherlands-based Royal Dutch Shell...