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AP - Rudy Giuliani boasts that he reined in crime, welfare and taxes in a city once considered ungovernable. Those claims are intrinsic to the former New York mayor's pitch to Republican voters that he has the combination of competence and toughness they want in a president. Whether his record supports those claims, however, is a matter upon which admirers and critics differ markedly.

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AFP - Is it a new dawn in US politics, or just another gimmick in an endless and overcrowded 2008 White House race?

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AFP - The 2008 White House race is already the longest and most-expensive campaign in US history, and though the 17 candidates seem many, so are the paradoxes.

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AP - Democrat Barack Obama told union activists Saturday night that he would walk a picket line as president if organized labor helps elect him in 2008.

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COLUMBUS, OH -- Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, the son of a Teamster truck driver and the oldest child in a paycheck-to-paycheck family of seven children, brought his life’s experiences and his legislative record to an AFL-CIO town hall meeting in Columbus (OH) today and told his union brothers and sisters, “This campaign is about jobs. It’s about jobs. And it’s about jobs.” Click here for video

“It’s the workers of this country who are going to determine who the president is going to be,” the Cleveland Congressman told the cheering crowd. And that next President, he said, must be committed to creating new jobs, making health care available to all Americans, securing workers’ rights and pension rights, and improving education for the next generation of American workers.

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AP - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said Saturday he has scaled back plans for a straw poll in Iowa next month that two chief rivals are bypassing.

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Reuters - The 2008 White House race has groundbreaking candidates, record-shattering spending and crowded debates, but so far it lacks a more common feature of recent campaigns -- negative and sometimes personal attacks.

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AP - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn't a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there.

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AP - Colorado Democrats voted Saturday to move their presidential caucuses to February, a month earlier than planned, in hopes of gaining sway with presidential candidates.

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AP - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani sought common ground with firefighters Friday, linking the suffering from last month's deadly furniture store blaze in South Carolina to the pain from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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AP - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said Friday more intense methods of CIA interrogation are acceptable in dealing with terrorism and he praised the broad powers granted law enforcement under the USA Patriot Act.

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AP - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Friday that a White House bid by fellow Southerner Fred Thompson would make him less likely to join the race.

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AP - Obama's girls have heard of Obama Girl — and wonder what the star of the racy Web video means to their family.

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AP - John McCain's campaign is broke, Mitt Romney's is frequently likened to a well-oiled machine and Rudy Giuliani's is about as insular as they come in the Republican presidential race.

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CQPolitics.com - Republican partisans have a political mantra for the 2008 campaign: The political climate, they contend, can’t possibly be as bad as it was in 2006, when the unpopularity of President George W. Bush and the national Republican Party in general cost the GOP its control of Congress and the governors’ offices in six states.

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