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...eveningwear. He was young, old, fat and thin. At one point he was even a tantrum-throwing toddler. It wasn't until 1856 that Uncle Sam grew his first beard, which he would alternately gain and lose until Abraham Lincoln was elected President four years later. Through Lincoln, the Union became associated with the image of a tall, lanky man with a beard - an image that transferred, and stuck, to Uncle Sam forever after...
...hasn't voted for a Republican president since Richard Nixon in 1972. Golnik argued that a Hillary Clinton rally indicated Democrats were worried about their chances of taking the state. Clinton made two stops in Duluth, a northern city near the Iron Range where Republicans hope McCain can steal union votes from Democrats...
...vote for socialism or democracy?" pipe fitter Danny McIntyre, 37, playfully asked a reporter at a nearby gas station after he 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
Franken Courts the Youth Vote in Minnesota, 3 p.m. E.T. U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken received a sleepy reception as he strolled through the University of Minnesota's student union with St. Paul mayor Chris Coleman and campaign staffers. Students sporting red "I voted" stickers approached him for photographs, but other students lounging in the main lobby peered over their laptops, wondering who dared to interrupt their in-between-class naps...
...next morning, a line of roughly 50 students waited quietly to cast their first votes. Many, like Precious Gaddis, a junior and first time voter, were at the wrong polling station and left. Gaddis said someone at her apartment complex told her she could vote at the student union but was turned away there today. Meanwhile, students in line murmured to each other whether they were at the right station and if they have to be registered (the state has same-day registration...