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Maine and Nebraska: In search of the one

Oct. 30, 2008
The quest for every last electoral vote reaches some unlikely placesTUCKED in a strip mall in Omaha, near a Chuck E. Cheese’s, is a campaign office for Barack Obama. It has little business being there. Nebraskans have not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964....
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HAMPTON ROADS, Va., Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Virginia state officials are advising residents to disregard a phony state flier advising Democrats to vote on Nov. 5, a day after the actual election.

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PRINCETON, N.J., Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Republican U.S. presidential candidate John McCain, trailing his Democratic rival in many polls, can't really look to history for a comeback win, Gallup said.
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Obama focuses on Omaha's electoral vote

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Survey: 'toss-up' states election key

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U.N. funds electoral education in Iraq

BAGHDAD, March 17 (UPI) -- The U.N. agency in charge of overseeing procurement services unveiled 75 new projects by Iraqi non-profit groups working on an electoral education campaign.

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ROME, March 4 (UPI) -- Of 40,000 Romanians living in Rome and eligible to vote in coming administrative elections, only eight have registered to do so, election officials said.

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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch