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Car Crashes Spike on Election Day
KickingTiresHold up! Whatever you do, do not vote this November! Canadian researchers recently found that traffic deaths spiked on Election Day, based on an analysis of presidential elections dating back to 1976, when Jimmy Carter faced down Gerald Ford. An......Tags: Clubs and Associations, Lifestyle and Leisure, Jimmy Carter, Vehicles, Election Day
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Obama and Stevens: Two south-siders
The SwampJustice John Paul Stevens jokes with Justice Antonin Scalia at a dinner in Chicago in May. (AP/Charles Rex Arbogast) by James Oliphant As South Siders go, they could scarcely be more different. One born and bred in the city......Tags: Paula Jones, Politics, History, Barack Obama, White House
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Palin: On special needs
Spin CyclePalin gives her first policy speech of the campaign today -- on the ticket's proposals for special needs kids. Text of the release after the jump.......Tags: Education, Florida, High Schools, Politics, Advanced Training
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Back on the trail, Obama blows a circuit
The SwampBy John McCormick RENO, Nev. - The power went out on Sen. Barack Obama this morning during his first appearance on the campaign trail following a whirlwind visit to Hawaii to visit his gravely ill grandmother. About 12 minutes into......Tags: Jimmy Carter, Sports, Small Businesses, National Government, Sarah Palin
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Barack Obama divides media into Cubs, Sox sections
WatchdogPresident-elect Barack Obama's sports fetish is getting stranger by the week. First, he lobbied for a college football playoff. Then, he discussed Kurt Warner's comeback season in a comically awkward chat with John McCain. Now this: Dividing reporters for...Tags: Baseball, Kurt Warner, Football, All Stars, Barack Obama
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Bush's lame-duck approval: Rising?
The Swampby Mark Silva The lame-duck President Bush has pretty much nowhere to go but up from here, in his public approval ratings, that is. And that's pretty much where lame-duck presidents have gone during the time between the elections of......Tags: National Government, Election Day, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, World War II (1939-1945)
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Does Obama err by leaning on Lincoln?
The SwampThen Sen. Barack Obama at the dedication of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, Ill., April 2005. (Chicago Tribune photo by Pete Souza.) by Frank James President-elect Barack Obama really has a thing for Abraham Lincoln. The....Tags: National Government, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Illinois, George W. Bush
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Obama, waterboarding, Gitmo, movin' on
The Swampby Mark Silva Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon. Pressident-elect Barack Obama isn't offering any such sweeping amnesty, but is suggesting that he will not place a high priority on investigating where breaches of law may have occurred in the war......Tags: Constitutional Issues, Terrorism, Politics, Barack Obama, U.S. Military
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Clinton, Reagan, Nixon, LBJ: Farewells
The Swampby Mark Silva As President George W. Bush and his writers place the final touches on 15 minutes of televisied talk that will deliver a farewell to the nation after two tumultuous terms in office, it's worth remembering the most......Tags: Democracy, Population, Politics, Academic Progress, Wars and Interventions
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Economy: Does Obama know what he's doing?
Spin CycleWe don't claim to be economists here (that's probably obvious), but occasionally wonder how it is that economic collapse suddenly fills the politicians with great confidence that they can and should spend money like drunken sailors. If you have......Tags: National Government, Public Finance, Politics, Barack Obama, Economic Policy
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Top 10 Favorite Foods of Presidents
Dining@LargeI was going to skip Top 10 this Tuesday because we were off yesterday, but then I got to reading that Barack Obama's favorite food is pizza from Italian Fiesta Pizzeria in Hyde Park, Chicago.This amazed me because it's so......Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, Foods and Beverages, Soups
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Obama's approval opens high, standard
The Swampby Mark Silva Before President Barack Obama takes too much stock in his high opening job approval ratings - which the Gallup Poll says will be well above 50 percent when it reports the new president's first readings this weekend......Tags: John F. Kennedy, National Government, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Management Change
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