Flyer About Black Voters Angers Mo. GOP
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Missouri's Republican Party wants a Democratic-aligned group to stop circulating a get-out-the-vote flier that includes a 1960s photograph of a firefighter hosing a black man that reads: "This is what they used to do to keep us from voting."
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LEXINGTON, Ky., Oct. 16 -- A city council candidate has protested a billboard for his incumbent opponent that proclaims "Elect Jesus Christ Savior" and includes a box: "Jacques Wigginton for Council."
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Dissatisfied with Congress, voters would probably hang a "Help Wanted" sign on the U.S. Capitol if given the chance. "They're not doing their job," says Scott Newland, 39, an independent voter who backed President Bush in 2004.
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An obscure candidate in a down-ticket Georgia race is getting some much-needed attention from a rap campaign song that pummels voters with a simple, mind-numbing lyric: &quot;Vote 4 Miss Angela.&quot;
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Motivated by unpleasant memories of the 2000 Florida recount, black leaders determined to boost voter turnout this fall are enlisting hip-hop artists and community organizations in campaigns to register millions of new voters.
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson and other black political leaders spread a message of victimization that leads most blacks to vote Democratic, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson charged Wednesday.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is scolding his party in a nationally broadcast ad Sunday and in an open letter to party leaders that asserts that the blame for Washington's dysfunction does not rest just with Democrats.
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A fund-raising e-mail from a Democratic congressional candidate contained a hidden expletive directed at his opponent, a newspaper reported Saturday.
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US 7th Congressional Candidate Jim Newberry remarked: &quot;No Democrats in Southwest Missouri? You&#39;ve got to be kidding.&quot; An estimated 10,000 people attended a rally to hear Senator John Edwards at Springfield&#39;s Southwest Missouri State University last Sunday ...
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Illinois is far from being a &quot;battleground&quot; state in this heated presidential election. But there are signs, literally, that Illinoisans are dug in for their preferred candidates, Republican
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Anger boiled Sunday among African-Americans who had votes scrubbed out in the disputed 2000 US election, as Democratic hopeful John Kerry joined swinging, singing worshippers at a Baptist church.
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In Missouri, a longtime bellwether, bragging rights are more important than delegates. And the Dems race is tightening
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For months, much of the finger-pointing over negative campaigning in the Republican presidential race has been directed at Mitt Romney.
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Civil rights activists say racism is behind opposition to a ballot measure that would strike language requiring segregated schools and poll taxes from the Alabama Constitution.
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A bogus letter circulating in South Carolina, purporting to be from the NAACP, threatens the arrest of voters who have outstanding parking tickets or failed to pay child support. The NAACP said Friday the letter is a scare tactic and called for an investigation.
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Election officials are worried that a massive write-in campaign mounted by Republicans in the scandal-ridden Salt Lake County mayoral race could hold up final results in other races around the state.
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In Arizona, one House candidate called party officials idiots. In Rhode Island, ad-makers turned a Senate hopeful into a political pinata.