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| 1 | Palin book tour or campaign kickoff? | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin is embarking on what is likely to be the most commercially successful book tour by a politician since President Obama launched "The Audacity of Hope" three years ago. Obama's book tour spawned a presidential campaign. Will Palin's do the same? | ||
| 11/15/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 2 | Poll finds 57% favor public health option | Health and Family |
| Americans remain sharply divided about both the overall package and President Obama's leadership on the issue, reflecting the intense partisan battle that has raged for months. | ||
| 10/20/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 3 | Democrats battle Democrats as Senate panel rejects public-option plans | Politics |
| WASHINGTON — For months, advocates of an overhaul of the nation's health-care system have implored President Obama to outline in greater detail the provisions he's prepared to push and defend. He largely has resisted, offering broad principles but still leaving details to Congress. | ||
| 9/30/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 4 | Town halls, and then what? | Politics |
| WASHINGTON — Raucous town-hall meetings have become the political story of August. Images of angry Americans confronting elected officials fill television screens and form the backdrop for commentary surrounding a polarized debate over the future of the nation's health-care system. | ||
| 8/14/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 5 | Big fight over big government | Health and Family |
| The health-care debate clearly has become a proxy for a much bigger fight over the size and power of the federal government. In part because of his earlier actions this year, President Obama has been thrown on the defensive. | ||
| 8/12/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 6 | From tarnished Calif., lessons for rest of U.S. | Politics |
| WASHINGTON — The decline in governance in the nation's most populous state has been on display again this summer as California's political leaders have struggled to eliminate a $26 billion budget deficit. The question is whether California's experience will transfer to the rest of the country. | ||
| 7/22/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 7 | Enigmatic choices create a fuzzy future | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin demonstrated once again Friday that she is one of America's most unconventional politicians, following an unpredictable path to an uncertain future. | ||
| 7/4/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 8 | Sanford's affair admission rekindles a grand old problem | Politics |
| South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's summer adventure to Argentina is a full-fledged personal and family embarrassment, a story of infidelity followed by a public confession of the type that has become all too familiar from political leaders. But Sanford's story is more than personal. | ||
| 6/25/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 9 | Voters have mixed reactions to VP faceoff | Nation and World |
| ST. LOUIS — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin spent much of the past two weeks on the defensive, hounded by critics over halting performances in television interviews and questioned even by conservative writers doubtful about whether she is ready to be vice president. | ||
| 10/3/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 10 | New poll: Presidential race deadlocked | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — Both Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain solidified support among party loyalists during the conventions, but it was the Republican nominee who entered the presidential campaign's final stretch with newfound momentum, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. | ||
| 9/9/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 11 | Will Obama's tour help him at home? | Nation and World |
| As Obama moved from Iraq and Afghanistan to Jordan and Israel and then to three European capitals before flying back to Chicago late Saturday, strategists back home measured the political fallout for the senator from Illinois and presumptive Republican nominee John McCain on an almost hourly basis. | ||
| 7/27/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 12 | Trip yields drama, boost for Obama | Nation and World |
| AMMAN, Jordan — When Sen. Barack Obama left Washington last week, he was under pressure to defend what Republican critics called an arbitrary deadline for withdrawing U.S. combat forces from Iraq. By Monday, the White House and rival Sen. | ||
| 7/22/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 13 | Obama gets set for crucial overseas trip | Nation and World |
| Obama's visit is among the most unusual ever undertaken by a presumptive White House nominee, planned with the attention to detail of a trip by a president and as hyped abroad as at home. | ||
| 7/19/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 14 | Clinton, Obama urge ranks to close | Politics |
| UNITY, N.H. — Sen. Barack Obama wanted a symbolic beginning for his alliance with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, and he achieved it Friday when the former rivals traveled here together for an afternoon rally designed to unite Democrats for the fall campaign. | ||
| 6/28/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 15 | Obama: "This is our moment" | Politics |
| Before a chanting, cheering audience in St. Paul, Minn., the first-term Illinois senator savored what once seemed an unlikely outcome to the Democratic race against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. He now faces another hard-fought battle, against Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican candidate. | ||
| 6/4/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 16 | Obama, Clinton confront their campaign missteps | Politics |
| In their first head-to-head encounter in nearly two months, Obama and his opponent for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, sparred with one another over gaffes, missteps and past statements that could leave them vulnerable in a general election contest against Sen. | ||
| 4/17/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 17 | McCain gearing up for general election | Nation and World |
| One of McCain's first decisions has been to assemble a novel and risky campaign structure that will rely on 10 "regional managers" who will make daily decisions in the states under their direction, his advisers said. | ||
| 4/1/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 18 | Wis. voters give Obama decisive victory | Politics |
| WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama decisively won the Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary Tuesday, dealing another blow to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose imperiled candidacy now hangs on the outcomes in Ohio and Texas. | ||
| 2/20/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 19 | Big states for Clinton but more for Obama | Politics |
| Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won victories over Sen. Barack Obama in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York on Tuesday, giving her presidential campaign a crucial boost. | ||
| 2/6/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 20 | Obama stands out in night of speeches | Politics |
| DES MOINES, Iowa — In the space of an hour this weekend, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois, using some of their most pointed and forceful rhetoric of the campaign, framed the choice for Democrats deciding their party's presidential nomination. | ||
| 11/12/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||