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<title>Restore intelligence to intel gathering</title>
<description><![CDATA[By <a href="mailto:Sen.%20John%20D.%20Rockefeller%20IV" class="blue"></a><br />Politico ContributorIt is perhaps now common wisdom that throughout the past eight years, the Bush-Cheney administration too often abused the intelligence process, used intellig...]]></description>
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<title>McCain makes brief stop in state</title>
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<title>Obama plan would expand Bushs faith-based program</title>
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<title>McCain challenges Obamas windfall profits tax</title>
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<title>Obama claims Democratic nomination, makes history</title>
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<title>Obama within reach after victory in Oregon</title>
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<title>Obama looks to general election</title>
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<title>McCain makes first W.Va. campaign stop</title>
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<title>W.Va. superdelegates hold firm</title>
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Thu, 15 May 2008 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Hillary racks up big win</title>
<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.wvgazette.com/primaryphotos" target="_blank"><img src="/images/icons/slideshows.gif" title="cnImage" border="0" />See photos from the W.Va. primary day</a>Sen. Hillary Clinton swept to victory over Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama Tue...]]></description>
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Wed, 14 May 2008 00:55:03 -0400
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<title>Obama pushes for new GI Bill</title>
<description><![CDATA[                    <a href="http://wvgazette.com/obamaveterans" target="_blank"><img src="/images/icons/video.gif" title="cnImage" border="0" />Watch video from Obamas visit to Charleston</a>On the day before West Virginias primary election, U.S. Sen. Bar...]]></description>
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Tue, 13 May 2008 01:00:00 -0400
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Tue, 13 May 2008 08:48:53 -0400
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<title>Hillary coasts to big win in W.Va. primary</title>
<description><![CDATA[<em>Updated 10:05 p.m. </em>Sen. Hillary Clinton swept to victory over Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama today in West Virginias Democratic primary, in her quest to keep her presidential hopes alive.  &quot;Like the song says, Its almost heaven,&quot; Cli...]]></description>
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<title>President Clinton visits WVU campus</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN -- Despite findings that Hillary Clinton has less support among young people than Barack Obama, West Virginia University students came out in droves Thursday to support the Democrat vying to be the nations first female president.And her husband ...]]></description>
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Thu, 01 May 2008 08:14:46 -0400
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<title>Play of the Day: Clinton visits gas station for cameras</title>
<description><![CDATA[SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Hillary Rodham Clinton, a former first lady who hasnt driven a car or pumped gas in many years because of Secret Service restrictions, joined a blue-collar worker at a filling station Wednesday to illustrate how the high price of gasoli...]]></description>
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Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:11:14 -0400
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<title>Electoral numbers favor Democrats</title>
<description><![CDATA[<em>This is the first in an occasional series that explores the electoral math needed to win the White House.</em><em></em>  WASHINGTON -- The electoral road to the White House favors Democrats this fall -- either Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton -- ...]]></description>
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<title>Candidates for president talk politics</title>
<description><![CDATA[    <strong>Obama seeks unions help while Clinton promotes vets issues</strong>CHICAGO - How does Sen. Barack Obama spend a day off in his hometown. By urging hundreds of union activists to back his presidential bid in the final Democratic primaries.That m...]]></description>
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<title>Tight race puts W.Va. in play for Clinton, Obama</title>
<description><![CDATA[            A full-fledged Democratic presidential campaign will be waged across West Virginia in the next three weeks, after Sen. Hillary Clintons double-digit victory in Pennsylvania Tuesday.&quot;If it had been 7 percent instead of 10 percent, [Sen. Bar...]]></description>
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<title>Clinton grinds out victory over Obama in Pennsylvania</title>
<description><![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA &#8212; Hillary Rodham Clinton ground out a gritty victory in the Pennsylvania primary Tuesday night, defeating Barack Obama and staving off elimination in their historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination.&quot;Some counted me ou...]]></description>
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Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Voting underway in Pa. Democratic primary</title>
<description><![CDATA[        PHILADELPHIA &#8212; A six-week, increasingly hard-edged Pennsylvania primary contest between Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama culminated today as voters registered their choice &#8212; a decision that could save or sink Clintons f...]]></description>
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<title>Clinton, Obama trade negative attacks days before Pa. vote</title>
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<title>McCain reports 2007 income</title>
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Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Obama challenges Clinton on trade</title>
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