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" Despite a recent promise from Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean not to make Sen. John McCain's age -- he turns 72 in August -- an issue in the presidential campaign, a senior Democratic operative has started a new website designed to draw attention to just that fact. Called "Younger than McCain", the website is being run by Steve Rosenthal, a former political director at the AFL-CIO and executive director of America Coming Together, a massive soft money effort organized around the 2004 presidential race. Rosenthal is now a partner in The Organizing Group."

Billionaire currency trader George Soros, in his quest to unseat President Bush, has given millions of dollars to a coalition of anti-Bush organizations whose nationwide voter-registration drive has been targeted by state and federal authorities for possible widespread fraud. Working under an umbrella organization known as America Votes, the coalition's registration drive — described by election officials as the largest in U.S. history — focused on potential voters in 14 so-called battleground states.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Three board members of a labor-created nonprofit political organization have resigned, calling into question the future of a group set up to raise at least $30 million to turn out voters for Democrats in 2004. Mounting opposition from minority groups against Steve Rosenthal, the former AFL-CIO political director who founded the Partnership for America's Families and is serving as executive director, and concerns about management led to the resignations last week. Rosenthal did not return a message left for him at the partnership's office. Minority groups, including the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, complained that Rosenthal has...