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AP - If the presidential candidates were living the life of their idle dreams, Rudy Giuliani would be chattering in the announcer's booth at Yankee Stadium while Bill Richardson plays center field.

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AP - It isn't every day on the campaign trail that New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson proclaims himself a Californian, or that Hillary Rodham Clinton pledges to be a president who respects gay relationships.

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Bill Maher Interviews Dennis Kucinich on April 27, 2007
Show repeats this week on HBO - check local listings

Humor intertwines with the tragedy that exists in the United States. Millions are uninsured. The infrastructure is crumbling. The fragile environment is failing. The reality of war is in contrast with the fact that "Peace is inevitable."

Host Bill Maher inquires, why is it that many might believe as Congressman Kucinich does and yet they do not consider him a serious contender? Representative Kucinich states, "I think it is a matter of time before the American people learn that I am the candidate that would end the policies that keep us in war." He affirms we can focus on issues at home and re-connect with the world community. America can again be a country that is loved and admired.

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U.S. News & World Report - With the so-called money primary having been wrapped up earlier this month with the disclosures of the first presidential fundraising reports--and with the results having boosted the prospects of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and eliminated any aura of inevitability around New York Sen. Hillary Clinton--the "ideas" primary is expected to formally get underway tonight with the first Democratic presidential debate for 2008.

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AP - Sen. John McCain touted his experience and Western roots in his bid for the White House during a brief campaign stop Saturday in this rural, Republican-friendly Nevada enclave.

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AP - President Bush, pushing for a hard-to-find breakthrough on a broad immigration overhaul, appealed to graduating college students in this diverse city Saturday for help in persuading Congress to produce a bill.

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AP - Fresh from their debate, Democratic presidential hopefuls prodded their rivals on war and health care Friday, seeking an advantage with voters in the South's first primary state.

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AP - Fred Thompson, the politician and actor considering a White House bid, said Friday he favors helping the Iranian people overthrow the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad if the chance arises.

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AP - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Friday accused his Democratic rivals of embracing health care plans that would amount to socialized medicine.

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Washington, DC - - Presidential candidate and US Congressman Dennis Kucinich Friday challenged Senator Barack Obama's assertion, made in an exchange with Kucinich in Thursday's Democratic Presidential Debate in Orangeburg, South Carolina, that Iran is in the process of developing nuclear weapons.

"In last night's debate, Senator Obama revealed that he has fallen into the same trap which wrongly took us into war against Iraq. In one breath he conjured Iran as a threat: ('But, have no doubt, Iran possessing nuclear weapons will be a major threat to us and to the region.')

"And in the next breath he asserted that according to experts, Iran is developing nuclear weapons. : ' . . . but they're in the process of developing it. And I don't think that's disputed by any expert.' "Where is Senator Obama's proof for such a provocative statement?" Kucinich asked.

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AP - Republican Mitt Romney is heading a presidential campaign stocked with Washington insiders, even as he proudly casts himself as a political outsider on the campaign trail.

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CQPolitics.com - Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry did not face a Republican opponent the last time he sought re-election to the Senate — a 2002 contest that was a precursor to the presidential campaign he waged against President Bush.

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Bloomberg - April 27 (Bloomberg) -- Democrats went into last night's first 2008 presidential debate with three top candidates vying for their party's nomination, and, after exchanges on Iraq and national security, they probably all came out the same way.

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CQPolitics.com - The eight Democrats who are seeking their party’s 2008 presidential nomination met Thursday night for the first in a series of debates leading up to the first primary and caucus voting next January. They did not exhibit much disagreement and often criticized the Bush administration’s handling of the Iraq war and also defended their strategies for combating terrorism.

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AP - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday she sees her sometimes Southern accent as a virtue.

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