Obama promotes his rural plans
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Powerful interests in Washington have swayed a new farm bill toward big business, Democrat Barack Obama said Monday, campaigning in the most rural region of this crucial early voting state and promising to do better as president.
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MANCHESTER, New Hampshire  - Democrat Barack Obama sounded very much like a 2008 White House candidate on his first visit to the presidential proving grounds of New Hampshire on Sunday, firing up local activists and calling for a new "sense of hope" in U.S. politics.
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Sen. Barack Obama sought Sunday to use his South Carolina victory to expand his appeal, saying the first Southern primary reflects what Americans are looking for.
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President George W Bush campaigned up and down a small rural stretch of the heartland yesterday, desperately seeking to shore up his position in a once safe region where Republicans
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Friday he wants to increase opportunities for older Americans to contribute to society by creating new volunteer programs.
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Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards added some Hollywood star power to his focus on rural problems, campaigning Wednesday in South Carolina's small towns with actor and political activist Danny Glover.
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Bush is working hard to woo voters in small towns to overcome Kerry's advantage in bigger cities.
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Busing through western Ohio, where jobs have been slow to come back in the economic recovery, President Bush told rural audiences on Saturday that he would work to open foreign markets to U.S. crops and factory goods.
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Sen. Barack Obama is making some campaign promises we can be pretty sure he won't keep.
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Senator Barack Obamaâs campaign has employed novel tactics, like counting sales of $4.50 key chains as contributions, to pump up numbers and cultivate support.
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Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama hit the streets Saturday in what he said was an unprecedented grass-roots focus as the campaign for the nomination begins to take shape in a handful of states which hold early tests of strength.
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Democratic presidential  hopeful Barack Obama on Wednesday proposed an economic agenda  designed to help struggling lower and middle class workers,  including new plans to make college more affordable and  strengthen retirement security.
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Long a model for protecting rural areas, the state faces a property-rights backlash.
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Barack Obama will be able to evoke a long list of positive images when he stands outside Illinois' Old State Capitol and tells the world whether he's running for president
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MANCHESTER, N.H. -- As a snow squall whirled outside, Sen. Barack Obama, in a black suit, told more than 500 people gathered at a downtown hotel here last week that he is running for president to "tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda are over" and, in his rousing...
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Democrat Barack Obama says he won't just be a president for the American people, but the animals too.
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Limits on federal spending will "place rural America at a tremendous disadvantage," say pro-tax senators in rural states.