Word: ticket
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...with the Republican brand,” Vilsack said. Putting it simply, Hochschild said, “McCain has run a poor campaign.” Law professor Alan M. Dershowitz said McCain lowered his chances of capturing the independent vote by adding Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to the ticket. “Independents had their intelligence insulted and their security endangered by McCain’s selection of an incompetent as his running mate,” Dershowitz said. Whatever the outcome of the race, Skocpol said, today marks “one of the most momentous electoral contests...
...effort has, among other things, been sharpening its focus on fast-growing areas in Virginia such as Fairfax, Fredericksburg, Stafford, Charlottesville and the Richmond suburbs, Leopold says. "Often times new voters who move in to an area are more open-minded to Democratic messages," he says. The Obama-Biden ticket has made at least eight visits to the southwest and south side of Virginia, hoping to win support from traditional Republican areas. "Obama and Biden have focused on growing areas and areas that are traditionally not Democratic in order to send a message that this election is not about party...
...voted. He said 12 of the 13 union workers in his shop were voting for McCain - despite AFL-CIO efforts to convince them otherwise. This is about taxes, he said, not race. "The guys we work with - they'd vote for Condoleezza Rice if she were on the ticket. They're pro-America." - By Karen Ball / Kansas City
...almost managed parity with the American dollar in recent years. Not anymore. The Down Under dollar now gets you only about 66 cents. But that opens the Land of Thunder's many delights to the American budget traveler - once, of course, you mortgage your devalued home for a plane ticket. Round-trip tickets from New York City to Sydney are going for about $1,400. On the upside, when it's winter in the North, it's summer over there. (Except financially - then it's winter everywhere...
...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...