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AP - For Julie Stauch, a successful presidential campaign starts with the toilets.

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AFP - With the cost of the 2008 presidential campaign likely to top one billion dollars for the first time, the race for the White House is driven more than ever by candidates' quest for campaign cash.

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AP - An internal document shows Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is concerned about his vulnerability to charges of flip-flopping, while suggesting he can differentiate from President Bush with a single word: "intelligence."

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Rasmussen Reports - Arizona Senator John McCain's (R) support among Likely Republican Primary Voters has slipped to the lowest level ever recorded since Rasmussen Reports began tracking the race shortly after last November's election.

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AP - Republican Mitt Romney titled his book on how he saved the scandal-ridden 2002 Olympics "Turnaround." Now, as he runs for president, he's trying to fight the perception that he's committed a few too many turnarounds.

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AP - Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani addressed his Democratic past on Monday and offered one reason for his political conversion — taxes.

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AP - Republican Sen. John W. Warner, the former chairman of the Armed Services Committee, on Monday endorsed Sen. John McCain for the Republican presidential nomination.

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AP - For presidential candidates, the post-Watergate system of financing campaigns with public money has become the great divide. Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, who dropped out of the Democratic presidential race last week, is likely only the first to fall into the chasm.

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Newsweek, Feb 26, 2007

"With Vilsack out, there's one less dark horse in the running. Can Dennis Kucinich capitalize? The pride of Cleveland on how his anti-war politics went mainstream, what he's got on Obama and Hillary, and what makes him run."

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U.S. News & World Report - Veteran Christian activist Marlene Elwell is not inclined to make political compromises. She helped engineer Pat Robertson's victory over George H. W. Bush in 1988's Iowa caucuses and led Michigan to constitutionally ban gay marriage in 2004. But after meeting with Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, interviewing California Rep. Duncan Hunter, and studying former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee-all 2008 presidential hopefuls who, like Elwell, are dyed-in-the-wool religious conservatives-she concluded that none could raise the tens of millions of dollars necessary for a competitive campaign. ...

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AP - Democrat Barack Obama piled on the praise last month as he stood beside Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and embraced the mayor's bid for a sixth term.

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CQPolitics.com - The early eruption of activity for next year’s presidential election isn’t the only major political news confronting Colorado voters at this unusually early stage of the 2007-08 election cycle. The state’s open-seat Senate race — possibly the top priority for Democratic strategists seeking to maintain or expand their party’s current and narrow Senate majority — is already taking shape.

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AP - Embattled Gov. Ernie Fletcher's second in command endorsed an opponent Monday in the governor's race.

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Rasmussen Reports - This week, Rasmussen Reports dropped Al Gore from our list of contenders in polling on the Democratic Presidential nomination but it had little impact on the overall dynamic of the poll results.

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AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice finds Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama appealing and says it won't be much longer before race isn't a barrier to becoming president.

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