Word: townships
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Kathleen Hood of Highland Township, for example, began holding house parties for Obama last year and took it upon herself to set up "United for Obama in Chester County" in early February this year. Since her first meeting, the group has grown from seven to 50, all without any contact from the official campaign until the final few days of the month, when some staff began coming into the state. She was able to do it largely by using the campaign website, which has a calendar for local activists to post events and reams of material for organizers...
...debate, he said, "Mom, I like the brown man's name. And he has some ideas that I can understand, too. He would be a good President. I would vote for him." The "brown man," Obama, will get my vote - on behalf of my son. Mary Walter, Chadds Ford Township...
...Dennis Township, N.J. and Kirkland House...
...greeted the results from Tuesday's New Hampshire primary voting with the same attitude: All those votes he was planning on getting? Well, they were just here! As late at 7 p.m. on election night, Jim MacEachern, Romney's Perry Township chair, was predicting a victory. "We've got 'em," he said, referring to the mobbed polling place he spoke from. (Meanwhile, at the McCain headquarters, aides were trying to suppress grins and quietly showing each other exit polls on their BlackBerrys, shading them with their hands so we mere mortals couldn...
Clashes between the police and the Orange Democratic Movement (O.D.M.) were largely confined to scuffles and tear gas. But on the outskirts, the tribal violence that has raged in Kenya for five days claimed scores more victims. A mob from the Luo tribe rampaging through the township of Mathare stoned one unidentified man to death before stealing his shoes, hacked another man from the Kikuyu tribe about the head with a machete and set a gas station on fire, gutting the buildings, pumps and five vehicles. By the end of the day, the toll had risen from just more than...