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Franken tries the switch from comic to Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Moving from celebrity to senator isn't exactly an untraveled path. But that doesn't mean comedian Al Franken, who is vying for a Senate seat in Minnesota, will coast to Capitol Hill on a wide, smooth road.
Nations:U.S. People:Shirley Temple Al Franken Norm Coleman Richard Nixon Clint Eastwood Arnold Schwarzenegger
2008-07-05
Jesse Helms: Stubborn on the Right
There's a special place in the United States Senate for the skunk, the single-minded dissident who refuses to go along with the gang and instead uses stubbornness, tenure and the chamber's arcane rules to advance himself and his causes. In the modern Senate, no one played that role as effectively as Jesse Helms, who died early Friday in Raleigh, N.C., at 86. For 30 years, Helms took controversial, sometimes outrageous positions on race, foreign relations and the culture wars, courting controversy and infuriating rivals but often outmaneuvering his centrist and liberal rivals. In the process, he also rewrote the way Americans elect their Senators by transforming his notoriety into mountains of campaign cash and a narrow but motivated grassroots majority in his home state.
Nations:U.S. North Korea People:Rush Limbaugh Richard Nixon John Edwards Henry Kissinger Activities:Vietnam War
2008-07-05
Previous July 4 polls promising for Obama
It's an axiom in presidential politics to ignore the early polls. Perhaps that's one piece of conventional wisdom that's better ignored.
People:Richard Nixon Ronald Reagan Jimmy Carter Bob Dole Dwight Eisenhower Barack Obama Activities:US Election 2008
2008-07-04
Many historians see little chance for McCain
One week into the general election, the polls show a dead heat. But many presidential scholars doubt that John McCain stands much of a chance, if any.
People:Ronald Reagan Barack Obama John McCain Richard Nixon Jimmy Carter George W. Bush Activities:US Election 2008 Source:(Politico)
2008-06-15
Yoko Ono scores in feud over rare Lennon footage
John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, made big strides on Wednesday in a legal feud over footage of the former Beatle smoking pot, writing songs and discussing putting the hallucinogenic drug LSD in President Richard Nixon's tea.
People:Yoko Ono Richard Nixon John Lennon
2008-05-21
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