Word: roading
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Both sides must think the Pittsburgh area is going to make a difference. Yesterday, John McCain greeted 1,500 at Pittsburgh International Airport, while Hillary Clinton stopped by a suburban Pittsburgh Obama office to encourage the troops. Bill Clinton, meanwhile, was campaigning with John Murtha up the road in Johnstown, trying to buck up the anti-war but veteran-friendly Democratic Congressman. Murtha's reelection once seemed inevitable, until he labeled his constituents "racists" and "rednecks" who would find it difficult if not impossible to vote for Obama. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
There is no shortage of people eager to see President George W. Bush hit the road - his approval rating hovers at 25% - but few will celebrate the end of the Bush era more than environmentalists...
...daughters Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, who generally have not been out on the trail with him. "In the last couple of days, I've been just feeling good," he said a bit wistfully as he introduced his family onstage in Cleveland. "Sometimes it's lonely on the road." But their family reunion was short-lived. At the city's airport, Michelle and the girls headed for a separate charter jet that was bound for home in Chicago, where school beckoned. Obama returned to his campaign plane, and the countdown of the final hours...
Eight miles down the road from John McCain's picturesque Arizona ranch, two dozen Democratic volunteers sat crammed into a second-floor strip-mall suite above a nail salon on Sunday morning making calls to persuade Arizonans to vote for the man running against their longtime Senator...
...sense of just how surprisingly tight the presidential race has become for Indiana's 11 electoral votes, all you had to do was get a glimpse of the Sarah Palin rally in Fort Wayne last Saturday night. The cars rolled up the main road here, past the Hooters and Showgirl III, the violet-colored strip club with tinted windows and a sign that read "SARAH PALIN LOOKALIKE 10 p.m." Just beyond it was Memorial Coliseum, where the vice-presidential nominee herself was appearing, taking the stage after Hank Williams Jr. revved up the crowd. After giving a shout...