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Some sweet news for Republican presidential candidate John McCain's campaign, so far he's winning the national jelly bean vote. "Fork Over Your Vote" is a national project where people can choose who they think should be the next president by tossing a jelly bean into a jar.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2007 – After sending thousands of homemade Valentines and boxes of candy to troops serving overseas, SI Yellow Ribbon Campaign is gearing up for its fourth “Operation Jellybeans to Heroes Unseen.” In this operation, the organization sends boxes of Easter goodies to servicemembers to remind them that Americans at home are still thinking about them. SI Yellow Ribbon Campaign is a member of America Supports You, a Defense Department program that highlights and facilitates the ways Americans and the corporate sector are supporting the nation’s servicemembers. “We try to include in each box a bag of...

It has been a long time since so much syrupy nostalgia has been in evidence at the White House. But Tuesday night, when President Bush announced his choice for the next associate justice of the Supreme Court, it was hard not to marvel at the 1950s-style tableau vivant that was John Roberts and his family. There they were -- John, Jane, Josie and Jack -- standing with the president and before the entire country. The nominee was in a sober suit with the expected white shirt and red tie. His wife and children stood before the cameras, groomed and glossy...

FAIRFIELD, Calif. — Black ribbons are affixed to the large jelly-bean mosaic portraits of Ronald Reagan at the Jelly Belly Candy Co. The family-owned company that makes the tiny, intense-flavored candies owes a lot to the former president. Reagan's love for the candy "made us a worldwide company overnight," said chairman Herman Rowland. It all began in 1967, when the San Francisco Bay-area company started supplying Reagan, then serving his first term as California's governor, with miniature jelly beans to help him quit smoking. "It's gotten to the point where we can hardly start a meeting or make a decision...