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Notebook: How has SD fared under Obama?
Based on historical trends and recent polling, there seems little chance that a majority of South Dakota voters will mark their ballots this year for the re-election of President Barack Obama. The deeper question is how South Dakota has fared during the...Tags: George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Primaries, Lyndon B. Johnson, Walter Mondale
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McGovern's death brings nostalgia for the age of statesmen
Former Utah governor Jon Huntsman, a Republican, spoke at Johns Hopkins University last week. He mostly avoided partisan politics, instead focusing on the roles of China and technology in determining America's future. However, he did address his failed...
Tags: Barack Obama, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Central Intelligence Agency, George H.W. Bush, Politics
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Halloween mask sales predict Obama win 60-40
Polls may show a hotly contested presidential election. But sales of Halloween masks of the candidates are already calling the race. President Obama masks have been outselling those of his Republican challenger Mitt Romney by a 60% to 40% margin,...
Tags: Holidays, George W. Bush, Politics, Al Gore, Mitt Romney
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McGovern dies
EDITOR’S NOTE — Walter R. Mears, who reported on government and politics for The Associated Press in Washington for 40 years, covered George McGovern in the Senate and in his 1972 presidential campaign. By WALTER MEARS CHAPEL HILL, N.C....Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, White House, Democratic Party, Politics, Labor Day
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Former SD Sen. and 1972 Presidential candidate George McGovern dies
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — George McGovern once joked that he had wanted to run for president in the worst way — and that he had done so. It was a campaign in 1972 dishonored by Watergate, a scandal that fully unfurled too late to knock...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Military, Iraq, Primaries, Lyndon B. Johnson
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McGovern's legacy spans generations
The accomplishments of South Dakota's George McGovern cannot be overstated. Known nationally for his failed 1972 presidential campaign against Richard Nixon, McGovern had a long and storied career representing South Dakota from 1956 through 1981, in...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Oliver Stone, Politics, John F. Kennedy
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Friends from Arlen Specter's Kansas hometown reflect on his life
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsVelma Beeman says she got the call while in church. "It was expected, because I had been forewarned by one of his friends that he was having a bad time," Beeman says. Former U.S. Arlen Spector was her classmate and high school friend. He died Sunday at...Tags: Elections, Politics, Arlen Specter
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Former Sen. Arlen Specter Dies After Long Battle With Cancer
CNNPHILADELPHIA -- Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, who embodied a vanishing breed of liberal Republicanism before switching to the Democratic Party at the twilight of his political career, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer, his family announced....Tags: White House, John Connally, G. Terry Madonna, Primaries, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations
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Rendell: For Romney, debates are make or break
Call Harrisburg BureauIf Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney fails to come away with a win at the first presidential debate at the University of Denver next month, the former Massachusetts governor could find his candidacy abandoned by GOP moneymen and chieftains...Tags: Barack Obama, MSNBC (tv network), Democratic Party, Politics, Edward G. Rendell
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Romney's zero percenters
A new poll suggests that Mitt Romney may achieve the nearly impossible: He may receive even less than the tiny 4 percent of the black vote that Sen. John McCain won four years ago. President Barack Obama holds a 4-point lead over Romney, his Republican...Tags: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Lyndon B. Johnson, Politics, Racism
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Bartlett to skip GOP convention
Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett has become the latest incumbent in Congress to announce he will skip his party's national convention this year to spend time campaigning for reelection, drawing a contrast with other state Republicans as well as his Democratic...Tags: Democratic National Conventions, Montgomery County (Virginia), Democratic Party, Martin O'Malley, Mitt Romney
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