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". . . this is not '08," NBC's Brian Williams said to Chuck Todd this morning on MSNBC. "These are not the crowds, this is not the candidate; he's an incumbent looking for reelection. The country has been though a financial shock and we're in kind of an outdoor park, courtyard, it's hard to say any of this with clarity, with surety, but last time this could have been 50,000 people and today, I think, we're pushing 5 (thousand). It's just a different time, a different campaign. They are slugging it out. It really will be hand-to-hand in the battlegrounds."

WASHINGTON -- Senator John F. Kerry, laboring to achieve a foreign policy victory that would be a highlight of his career, gained crucial support yesterday for a nuclear arms control treaty with Russia from his Massachusetts colleague, Republican Senator Scott Brown. Brown's backing gave Kerry additional momentum heading into a possible vote today. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Kerry is President Obama's man in charge of trying to lock down the two-thirds support of the Senate -- 67 votes if every members shows up — required to ratify the New START pact. Kerry and other senators have...

President Obama turns 49 on August 4, and OFA supporters will be sharing in the fun. Volunteers nationwide will hold birthday parties and use the occasion to recruit new OFA volunteers. Each new volunteer will help get more first-time 2008 voters back to the polls in November. And with so much more on our agenda, and tight races from Florida to Alaska, we don't have a moment to lose. Use the map below to find a President’s Birthday Event near you.

Yes, Medicare is quickly running out of money and Obamacare is causing drastic cuts, but evidently there's enough cash to hire celebrity spokesman Andy Griffith and produce a new television ad aimed at bamboozling seniors into thinking "good things are coming."