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This woman just plain isn't likable enough. I've been watching elections for 54 years and the people will not vote in somebody they can't "warm up" to. I really just can't see it. Giving her every benefit of the doubt I just can't see it. Maybe I'm just too biased but she just comes across as a phony, with an underlying, seething anger she tries to cover over. She should have won in 2008 but for that personality of hers. Anyone else get that vibe from her?

He’s been called many things, our president. A socialist, a conniver, a Big Government guy, even a Kenyan. But we have to admit to reading a couple of descriptions today of President Barack Obama that brought a smile to our lips. . . .

NEW YORK -- Bored with the political speechmaking in Harlem's Alhambra Ballroom, 6-year-old Iris Kerry Kaler reached out with both arms for her uncle, Sen. John Kerry, to pick her up. The Massachusetts senator, however, ignored his niece's entreaty, offering Iris only an awkward pat on the stomach despite the array of television cameras poised to record the potentially precious moment. It was a missed opportunity to demonstrate his warmth by holding the little girl in his arms just days before last month's New York primary. As Kerry runs for president, he is not competing only against President Bush. He's...