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AP - Elizabeth Edwards said Tuesday that her husband, Democrat John Edwards, would be a better advocate for women as president than his rival Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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AP - Forget the girl of YouTube videos. The real Obama girl is doing her part for the candidate. Talk show host Oprah Winfrey plans to hold a Sept. 8 fundraiser for Democratic hopeful Barack Obama at her palatial estate near Santa Barbara, Calif., according to campaign spokesman Dan Pfeiffer.

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AP - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign donors, many of them her top fundraisers, have directed nearly $90,000 to former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack to help retire the debt he incurred before dropping out of the presidential race.

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AP - THE RACE: Support for Republican, Democratic candidates in the presidential races in New Hampshire

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AP - As a 17-year-old living in one of the poorest counties in Appalachia, Evelyn Cosgriff eagerly listened to Robert F. Kennedy's early morning speech on Feb. 14, 1968 at the Letcher County Courthouse.

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U.S. News & World Report - One Vote '08, the national campaign to make poverty a campaign issue in the 2008 presidential election, will spend $30 million in the four earliest primary and caucus states: Nevada, Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given the effort, begun with the help of U2's Bono, a $22 million grant. Campaign organizers say that amount is the "minimum" for the campaign, making it surely one of the biggest issue campaigns thus far announced for the 2008 election cycle.

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Bloomberg - July 17 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. political parties are defying stereotypes in the 2008 presidential contest: Republicans, traditionally the party of big money, are behind in donations, while Democrats, often tagged as financially reckless, have better balance sheets.

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AP - The Associated Press-Ipsos poll on the 2008 presidential campaigns was conducted July 9-11, 2007, based on telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,004 adults, including 346 Republicans and 477 Democrats from all states except Alaska and Hawaii.

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AP - In an April episode of ABC's "The View," Bill Maher and Rosie O'Donnell professed their support for Al Franken's 2008 Minnesota Senate candidacy, with O'Donnell saying she was "maxing out" to the comedian-turned-candidate.

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AP - Mitt Romney's campaign found 9,732 ways to spend its money last quarter. From a $15 service fee for its travel agent to $300 for makeup work to $31,500 to rent the Boston Red Sox's Fenway Park for a celebratory barbecue, the Republican presidential contender was anything but fiscally conservative in spending money as fast as he raised it between April and June.

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AP - And the leading Republican presidential candidate is ... none of the above.

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Reuters - Food safety fears and broad economic concerns keep China in U.S. headlines, but the epochal rise of America's greatest potential rival has barely rated a blip so far in the 2008 presidential campaign.

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AP - Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards called on supporters packed into a charity thrift store Monday to help start a citizens' movement to fight poverty across America.

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AP - Democrat Barack Obama, who has decried Wall Street profits and CEO pay, has tapped a vein of donors among bankers and financiers who have given generously and helped drive his successful presidential campaign sprint for cash.

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AP - Sen. John McCain, his presidential campaign weighed down by Iraq, on Monday rejected a proposal from two fellow Republicans demanding a new war strategy that would limit the role of U.S. troops.

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