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...Hagan has also gotten a boost from the attention Obama's presidential campaign has focused on North Carolina. Believing it to be in play for the first time in years, the Democratic nominee has campaigned here regularly, built up a massive ground organization, and launched a huge registration drive. The Obama campaign has been doing literature drops and mailings that push the whole Democratic ticket, and has deployed teams to early voting sites to help explain how to vote Democratic all the way down the ticket...
...Hampshire, where four state party officials have been convicted of hiring a firm to jam Democratic phone lines during the 2002 election-Sununu has tried to present himself as, well, a maverick. In the Senate, he has gone out of his way to stake out some independent ground-opposing reauthorization of the Patriot Act, supporting land conservation issues, and being the first Republican Senator to call for the resignation of former attorney general Alberto Gonzales. During the last televised debate in the Senate race, both candidates were asked to identify issues on which they took stands that were politically unpopular...
...Dalai Lama's government-in-exile, based in Dharamsala, India, has been engaged in talks with China since 2002. He has sought autonomy for Tibet - a status described as a middle ground between Tibet's current place under the People's Republic of China and full independence. He now, however, views this "middle way" approach as having failed to produce "positive results," and he is therefore changing his course of action - by stepping back. "My trust in the Chinese government has become thinner, thinner, thinner," the Dalai Lama said to reporters on Monday, reiterating statements he has made over...
Harvard already had 183 yards on the ground in the first half, with four guys posting 20 yards or more. The Big Green defense just didn’t know what to do with sophomore tailback Gino Gordon, who led the way with all 78 of his yards coming in the first half for a 13.0 yards per carry average...
...this middle-of-the-road area, both campaigns are fighting for the center; that will make the ground game even more important. "The suburbs of Columbus have very high turnout already," says David Wasserman, an analyst for the Cook Political Report. "The real question is which campaign can stimulate turnout in the urban areas. I see this race as a real tossup right...