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COLUMBUS, OHIO – As President Bush and Sen. John Kerry hurtle into the final two days of the presidential race, the campaign has in some ways already moved out of their hands - and into the hands of people like Regina Weinhardt. Ms. Weinhardt, a stay-at-home mother of three in Thornbury Township, Pa., spent much of the weekend at the Hilltop Pub, a temporary headquarters for the Republican Party's get-out-the-vote drive in Delaware County, dialing up likely Bush voters and reading from a script reminding them to vote. A first-time volunteer, she admits that cold-calling strangers isn't easy - and...

I got my tickets for a presidential debate watching party with a personal appearance by the man himself after the debates. It is at Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix on Wednesday October 13. Doors open at 3pm and close promptly at 6. George W will be making an appearance to speak to all of us supporters after the debates. We want to fill this place up and show the President how much support he has in Arizona! Tickets are free and available from: Bush-Cheney '04 Headquarters 4647 N. 32nd Street, Suite 125B Phoenix, AZ (32nd street and Camelback) and Northwest...

Keep in mind these polls do not reflect the sleazy democrat DUI revelation a few days before the election. That cost Bush a few points certainly. Check Zogby and CBS. They are the only ones that showed Gore leading. http://www.electoral-vote.com/info/polls-2000.html

I'm making my first attempt to put together a picture presentation set to Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red White and Blue". I'm trying to find the picture of President Bush with the fireman at ground zero where he has his arm around the guy, megaphone in hand, saying the terrorists will hear from all of us soon. I've googled, used alltheweb, and been to many sites I thought would have it. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Garden's set to rock Final touches in place for one huge party BY MAGGIE HABERMAN DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU Madison Square Garden is ready for a Republican party. The star-spangled balloons are blown up and bagged; the cherry-red carpet is nailed in place; the blue delegate seats are nailed to the floor, and the confetti with pictures of GeorgeW. and Laura Bush is set to go. There's one stage for the speakers and a separate, hydraulic platform for the entertainers. Then there's a secret stage for the President himself that won't appear until Thursday night. That was the view...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders said they were near a final deal on the overdue state budget Thursday night after the governor abandoned some proposed fee increases and agreed to pump more money into higher education. Republicans, however, balked at a rewritten deal involving local government finances, and Schwarz enegger and legislative leaders met into the night trying to resolve the differences. "We are at this hour stuck on local government," Schwarzenegger spokesman Rob Stutzman said late Thursday. The Republican governor and lawmakers are two days late finishing work on the $103 billion spending plan, which relies heavily on...

PHILADELPHIA — My brother took more trains, planes and automobiles in the last week of his life than he had taken in months, perhaps years. Those journeys were all the more surprising because they occurred in an intensive-care unit at the end of his three-year battle with bone marrow cancer. Bedridden after being rushed to the hospital for what would be the final eight days of his life, Kenny casually mentioned that he was visiting Detroit. It was a rather odd place for him to be traveling — even if only in his imagination — because the hospital was near...

Californians Pay Final Respects to President Ronald Reagan 9 minutes ago By JEFF WILSON, Associated Press Writer SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - Nancy Reagan touched her cheek to the flag-covered casket, then made way for Americans by the thousands to pay respects Monday to Ronald Reagan before a cross-country journey to a state funeral in Washington. A steady, near-silent stream of people — some saluting, some praying — circled through the rotunda of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, where the body of the nation's 40th president will lie in repose through Tuesday before traveling to Washington. After Friday's state funeral, the...

After my previous post about the new waffles googlebomb, I noticed something interesting on JohnKerry.com (click here for a screen capture of the site.) The graphic featured above includes the NCAA's logo for the Final Four and the logo found on the Kerry site that is very similar to it. When you click on it on Kerry's site you go to another page with a poll (to see a screen capture of the poll click here.) I did some quick googling and was able to find some background information on the NCAA and its rights to the "Final Four"...

After a final bruising encounter with the West, Islam's fiery spokesman Dr Mahathir bows out of public life By Kathy Marks in Sydney 21 October 2003 No one thought Mahathir Mohamad would go quietly. But few expected a row of the magnitude that saw Malaysia's Prime Minister taken aside by President George Bush yesterday and told in no uncertain terms his remarks about Jews were "wrong and divisive". The frosty encounter was at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit, which opened in Bangkok yesterday, attended by 21 world leaders. The meeting should have been an occasion to honour Dr Mahathir,...

Okay Mrs. P is not that bad, she does have a conscience!

Powell gives Syria 'final warning' over terrorism By Toby Harnden in Washington (Filed: 05/05/2003) Colin Powell, the US secretary of state, said yesterday he had given Syria a final demand to stop aiding terrorist groups and cautioned that it would face "continuing difficulties" with America if it failed to do so. Some US officials said President Bashar Assad appeared to have taken Mr Powell's tough message on board during three hours of talks in Damascus and had already acted to close down Palestinian offices in Syria. Mr Powell, who put his prestige on the line by making the visit in...

Combat phase is over, says Powell as final push begins By Terry Kirby 14 April 2003 A week, to paraphrase the old adage about politics, is a long time in war. Or at least the kind of war we experience now. Last Sunday, the Iraqi regime was largely intact, its apparatchiks still maintaining the war was theirs for the winning. Outside Baghdad, the Americans drew close to a final confrontation with the Republican Guard and the British advanced into Basra. The conflict was still in the balance: protracted street fighting, a siege of Baghdad or a chemical-weapons attack by a...

A final, forceful attempt to place maximum pressure on the French By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles 17 March 2003 Only one question remained after yesterday's Azores summit: whether the United Nations can be persuaded, in extremis, to throw its collective weight behind the Iraqi war that has now become well-nigh inevitable, or whether the rifts dividing the Security Council will have to wait until after the war to be addressed. Nothing said by Tony Blair or George Bush gave the slightest suggestion that war can be averted. The leaders said they would give diplomacy another 24 hours to run...

<p>WASHINGTON - The United States issued a take-it-or-leave-it ultimatum to Turkey on Wednesday as a stalemate developed over access to Turkish bases even as ships carrying U.S. troops drew close to the conflicted ally's shores.</p> <p>A key component of the Pentagon's Iraqi battle plan envisions a two-front attack, one from Turkey on the north, the other from Kuwait on the south. If Turkey refuses to cooperate, U.S. officials said they will have to substantially alter their war strategy.</p>

<p>HOUSTON - New information from 32 seconds of garbled data show that shuttle Columbia's flight control system was still trying to guide the orbiter even after NASA lost contact with the ship, the agency said Saturday.</p> <p>NASA has been working feverishly to resurrect information from the data, which Columbia continued to transmit after Mission Control lost contact with the seven-member crew on Feb. 1.</p>

US pulls out diplomats in final preparation for strike on Iraq By Rupert Cornwell in Washington and Andy McSmith 09 February 2003 The United States has pulled out all but its most senior diplomats from countries surrounding Iraq, in preparation for a seemingly inevitable war. Diplomats' families are also being evacuated, and the Polish envoy who represents US interests in Baghdad has been withdrawn – raising the question of whether anything can now halt the planned US invasion, which is expected to start within a month. The US has ordered a fifth carrier group to the Gulf. Yesterday Hans Blix...

  20th Century U.S. History Final: 1) The Dixiecrat party was made up of Southern a) Democrats b) Republicans 2) Jim Crow laws were passed by legislatures controlled by: a) Democrats b) Republicans 3) When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led the civil rights efforts in the South, the governing powers that opposed him were of which party? a) Democrat b) Republican 4) In Arkansas, the governor who stood in the door of a schoolhouse to block integration was a: a) Democrat b) Republican 5) The president who ordered in the National Guard to dislodge the above-mentioned governor from...

History Describe the history of the papacy from its origins to the present day, concentrating especially (but not exclusively) on its social, political, economic, religious, and philosophical impact on Europe, Asia, America, and Africa. Be brief, concise, and specific. Medicine You have been provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a bottle of Scotch. Remove your appendix. Do not suture until your work has been inspected. You have 15 minutes. Public Speaking 2,500 aborigines are storming the classroom. Calm them. You may use any ancient language except Latin or Greek. Biology Create life. Estimate the differences in...

ZOGBY IN REDActual results are in black SD Senate- Thune (R) Over Johnson (D) 52-47SD Senate- Johnson (D) Over Thune (R) 50-49 Pollster John Zogby: "Looks like Pryor triumphs by trouncing Hutchinson among Indpendents. Here's another case where 401k holders voted against the incumbent." MN Senate- Mondale (D) Over Coleman (R) 51-45MN Senate- Coleman (R) Over Mondale (D) 50-47 Pollster John Zogby: "Despite the President's best efforts, looks like Mondale holds on." GA Senate- Cleland (D) Over Chambliss (R) 50-48GA Senate- Chambliss (R) Over Cleland (D) 53-46 Pollster John Zogby: "A big surprise because this race was on the watch...