The Real Running Mates
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Political spouses have traditionally wielded their influence in private. But in this race, all the rules will have to be rewritten
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Inside the battle for a critical chunk of votes
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John McCain acted the confident frontrunner, Mike Huckabee was the regular guy, and Fred Thompson played attack dog. Mark Halperin scores the South Carolina debate
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DAVENPORT, Iowa - Hillary Clinton has one. Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney too. Each contender in the presidential race has some special line about family, or faith, or war-time sacrifice - some turn of phrase that consistently strikes a chord with crowds.
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Based on a review of the 2005-2006 fundraising and spending activity of the 2008 presidential hopefuls, it is clear several had been in serious training during the last two years and hit the 2007 starting line at running speed. Others candidates were just starting to warm up.
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The nomination of Bernard Kerik as secretary of homeland security shows how easily and quickly friends can do in a public official.
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The 2008 presidential race began so early that voters have been on a first-name basis for months with Hillary and Barack, Rudy, Mitt and the other contenders. Yet people seem no closer to choosing from among them.
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Candidates keep announcing that they are running or almost certainly running, then later, saying so again.
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Campaign Cupids are working overtime deep into the '08 primary season.
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They're teammates. They're boss and employee. They're the best of friends.
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Financial contributors to the campaigns of the Democratic presidential hopefuls number in the hundreds of thousands, but the names of celebrities and other public figures who opened their checkbooks naturally stand out stronger than those of the masses of rank-and-file supporters.
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Match the performers with the presidential candidates they played for or otherwise supported. Hint: Some candidates here are associated with more than one performer or group.
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Modernisers and traditionalists are competing for the soul of the party.
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By TACON, Terry  `The neighbours have been great, providing paddocks and a water system'   -- Graham Haynes   --------------------   IT'S HARD to keep a good dairy team down, but the example being set by Southland sharemilkers Graham and Glenda Haynes is exceptional.
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BELIEVE it or not, I still have personal friends who are ardent Zanu PF supporters with whom I socialize now and then. With one of them however, our political differences were beginning to affect our personal relationship.
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When campaigning for president in a country as large as the United States, it helps to have famous friends to share the campaigning.
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Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are aggressively pursuing members of the group that could be tiebreakers at their partyâs convention.