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...seat, would have a tough fight on his hands. With minutes to go till poll closing in Texas (thanks to a tiny sliver of far western Texas around El Paso running on Mountain time), only a few votes had been counted at the other end of the state southwest of Houston, but the early vote shows Republican challenger Pete Olson hanging on to a slim lead with about 51% of the early vote in two of the four counties reporting to Lampson's 48%. The early-vote count comes from the heart of the district around Sugarland, DeLay...
...Bush's successor, that legacy means having to play catch-up starting Jan. 20 on a dusty list of green issues; to name a few: national action on capping carbon, reengaging with the United Nations climate change treaty process, America's addiction to foreign oil, water shortages in the Southwest and accelerated species loss...
...back Sunday night, after McCain stepped inside from the cold, leaving the overflow crowd for his final town hall in the state. "There was a time not so long ago, when I was riding on a well-known airline, Group C, middle seat," McCain told the crowd, describing the Southwest Airlines flights into Manchester Airport that he took...
...imagine Yavapai, an old blue collar farming and mill town that used to supply the nearby copper mines, ever voting for a Democrat. The county went 59% for Bush in 2000 and 61% for him in 2004. But the demographics of the county - much like Arizona's and the Southwest's as a whole - are shifting...
...Wisconsin Advertising Project. The Illinois senator has regularly visited the state and Friday night appeared in Lake County, which is just outside Chicago and boasts a large black population. Obama's running mate, Joe Biden, is scheduled to attend a rally Saturday in Evansville, in the state's southwest corner, which is viewed as being among Indiana's most socially conservative regions...