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White Backlash Festers After Obama Win

sptimes.ru
yesterday 8 related
        

Lucy Nicholson / Reuters A twenty dollar bill celebrating Barack Obama’s U.S. election win is displayed next to Malcolm X poster in a store in LA. Atlanta — In rural Georgia, a group of high-schoolers gets a visit from the...

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Did Obama Make the South Irrelevant?

hnn.us
17-Nov-2008 8 related
        

The polls had hardly closed, it seemed, before the punditry of print and blogosphere were positively a-twitter at the possibility that Barack Obama’s near-landslide victory is both substance and symbol of the happy reality that...

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Is the South politically relevant after Obama?

charlotte.com
14-Nov-2008 6,766 related
        

From Adam Nossiter of The New York Times: Fear of the politician with the unusual name and look did not end with last Tuesday's vote in this rural red swatch where buck heads and rifles hang on the wall. This corner of the Deep...

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McCain returns to campaign trail

usatoday.com
14-Nov-2008 188 related
        

SMYRNA, Ga. — Campaigning for the first time since his Election Day defeat, Sen. John McCain stumped here Thursday for a Republican senator facing a Dec. 2 runoff that could help Democrats move closer to a filibuster-proof...

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Stevens loses lead in Alaska senate race - USATODAY.com

usatoday.com
13-Nov-2008 746 related
        

Mark Begich, right, hopes to be the first Democrat to win an Alaskan senate race since the mid-1970s with his challenge of GOP Sen. Ted Stevens, currently embroiled in a corruption scandal. ANCHORAGE — The Democratic challenger...

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For the Southern states, a waning grip on U.S. politics

iht.com
11-Nov-2008 16 related
        

For the Southern states, a waning grip on U.S. politics : Fear of the politician with the unusual name and look did not end with last Tuesday's vote in this rural red swatch where mounted buck heads and rifles hang on the wall....

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Fellow Republicans, We Have A Geography Problem

belowthebeltway.com
11-Nov-2008 478 related
        

The one thing that is made startlingly clear by last week’s election results is the extent to which the Republican Party is in danger of becoming marginalized by a combination of ideology and geography. The Northeast, for...

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Obama Wins in North Carolina; Democrats Increase Senate Margin

legitgov.org
07-Nov-2008 14 related
        

President-elect Barack Obama added to his electoral-vote victory by winning North Carolina, and Democrats picked up a U.S. Senate seat in Oregon for a net gain of six. North Carolina's 15 electoral votes gave Obama a total of...

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'I never thought we'd see this day,' proud African Americans see their dream fulfilled

independent.co.uk
06-Nov-2008 14 related
        

The election of Barack Obama as president of the United States shatters the highest political barrier in the land for African Americans and marks a history-defining triumph for a civil rights movement born in the churches of...

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A Rematch for the Georgia Senate: Will Obama Help? (Time.com)

yahoo.com
06-Nov-2008 24 related
        

By PAIGE BOWERS/ATLANTA Paige Bowers/atlanta – 31 mins ago The campaigning isn't over in the state of Georgia. The two main candidates in a bruising U.S. Senate race there acknowledged they're headed for a runoff battle that...

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