Court allows casino vote that may boost Obama
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A federal judge on Thursday allowed Nevada Democrats to hold presidential voting in casino hotels on the Las Vegas Strip, potentially helping Sen. Barack Obama in the next round of the campaign on Saturday.
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A last-minute federal court battle over caucus rules underlines the importance Saturday's vote in Nevada has assumed as a potential momentum-builder in the Democratic presidential campaign.
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The announcement ignited speculation that the American casino business could attract more such proposals.
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A last-minute federal court battle over caucus rules demonstrates just how important a tight three-way Democratic presidential contest in Nevada has become in the battle for momentum headed into Super Tuesday's votes.
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By Tom Wilemon, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 3--PASCAGOULA -- With their constituents wanting to know when they will get to vote on the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians' proposed casino, some Jackson County supervisors are wondering whether they can even hold an election.
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A nonpartisan national group is trying to get a record number of voters to the polls this year. By JACKSON BAKER. MARION, Ark., Oct. 9 - A tour bus taking Chicago-area passengers to the casinos of Tunica, Miss
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The court bolstered President Bush's prospects in the swing state, ruling that Ralph Nader could appear on the ballot.
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Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has won an endorsement from the Nevada chapter of the Service Employees International Union, boosting his prospects against rival Hillary Rodham Clinton in Nevada's upcoming Democratic caucuses.
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Regularly drawing crowds of 10,000 or more, Democrat Barack Obama has been likened to a rock star so often that it has worn thin. But the cliche got put to a real test this week in Omaha, Neb., and Obama passed.
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About seven in 10 Maryland residents favor legalizing slot-machine gambling, but just as many oppose a sales tax increase that Gov. Martin O'Malley is pushing to close a looming $1.7 billion budget shortfall, a Washington Post poll has found.
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A Beverly Hills reception for  Barack Obama on Tuesday night brought in $1.3 million for the  Illinois senator's White House bid in the first major show  business fund-raiser of the 2008 presidential campaign cycle,  organizers said.
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Voters can be forgiven for assuming the courts may once again settle the presidential election.
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Barack Obama's triumph in the 2004 U.S. Senate race earned him a memorable send-off from his friends in the Illinois legislature &#151; they emptied his wallet in a take-no-prisoners night of poker.
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A Beverly Hills reception for Barack Obama on Tuesday night brought in $1.3 million for the Illinois senator's White House bid in the  first major show business fund-raiser of the 2008 presidential campaign cycle, organizers said.
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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) said today that he would introduce a slot machine gambling bill very similar to one that passed the House of Delegates in 2005, and sought to legalize 9,500 machines at racetracks and other locations in Allegany, Anne Arundel, Frederick and Harford counties.
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Four California tribes won the right Tuesday to add thousands of slot machines, as voters approved a major expansion of Indian gambling that prompted one of the state's costliest election battles.
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The Supreme Court is expected to rule Friday on rerunning the country's disputed presidential election.