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With endorsements like these, one might ask, who needs enemies? Last week, as an enervating U.S. election race reached its final stretch, Republican nominee Donald Trump secured the support of another of the world’s leading authoritarians. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, a pugnacious former soldier who has dominated his country’s politics for over three decades, threw his support behind the real estate mogul and former reality TV host. He did it, .. for the sake of world peace. “To be frank, I do want to see Trump win,” Hun Sen told an audience of police cadets on Nov. 3. “If...

In his last appearance before the primary here on Tuesday, former President Bill Clinton said he wishes "sometimes" that he wasn't married to Hillary Clinton because then he could speak more freely. "Sometimes when I am on a stage like this, I wish that we weren't married, then I could say what I really think," Bill Clinton said before introducing his wife at a rally. "I don't mean that in a negative way. I am happy."

  CLEVELAND -- The arena where President Obama and Vice President Biden are making their final appeal to Democrats to get out and vote in Tuesday's midterm elections was far from capacity Sunday afternoon. The crowd estimate stands at 8,000 in the arena that seats just over 13,000 and a couple thousand empty seats are visible above the stage where Obama and Biden rallied supporters on stage. The event is the final one in a series of "Moving America Forward" rallies aimed at ginning up enthusiasm with the party's largely deflated base ahead of Tuesday. The president's final pitch to...

Former President Bill Clinton listens to a question from the audience about the sub-prime mortgage crisis during a campaign visit for his wife at a barbecue restaurant in Oakland, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008. Former president Bill Clinton talks to a crowd of about 550 people at the Carson City Fire Department, while stumping for his wife Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., in Carson City, Nev., on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008.

I was interviewed by Brazilian TV AND a copy writer for THE NEW YORK POST friday, working the streets on lunch break in Hoboken, NJ. Overwhelming majority of positive responses, especially among married women with children and yuppie macho white males. Remember, take your yard sign wherever you go!

WAUWATOSA, Wis. -- As Hank Gramling, the owner of Jake's Fairview Cafe in this Milwaukee suburb, works the griddle, the TV near the counter beams two ads for John Kerry and two for George Bush in the time it takes for a few bites out of a turkey sandwich on rye. Welcome to Wisconsin, a battleground state. Wisconsin, in this 2004 election, is everything Illinois is not. Illinois, seen as a lock for Kerry, has no significant presidential campaign activity: no constant stream of dueling TV or radio ads, no major field organizations mounted by the rival campaigns, no rallies...

DELANO -- Teresa Heinz Kerry promised Tuesday that her husband, if elected president, would work to establish universal health care for children and create an "earned legalization" program for immigrants. The wife of Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, considered the front-runner in the Democratic presidential primary, spoke Tuesday night at the United Farm Workers' Forty Acres compound in Delano. Her appearance was part of the couple's campaign through the state in advance of the March 2 primary vote. Kerry, 65, took care to highlight differences between her husband's politics and those of President Bush -- especially in regard to immigrants and...

<p>CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - President Bush is leaving the door open to campaigning for California Republican gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger if it could help tip the balance in a close recall election, officials said today.</p> <p>Nearly a dozen people with ties to Bush emphasized he has no plans now to do so. But none would rule it out.</p>