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Voting rights advocates: reform needed
November 7, 2008Voting rights organizations had warned for months that thousands of voters across the country mighbe disenfranchised by problems related to anticipated high turnout or actions that lessened participation of specific groups of voters. While they focused...
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Dems add to House, Senate majorities
November 7, 2008Riding Barack Obama’s long coattails, the Democrats expanded their Senate majority by at least five seats and added 20 or more to their majority in the House of Representatives Nov. 4. Voters in North Carolina ousted...
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Recovery walk highlighted small towns plight
November 7, 2008BYESVILLE, Ohio -- It may be the day after Halloween, but Byesville still resembles a ghost town. Yet, this is exactly what prompted a visit from Joe Rugola, president of the Ohio AFL-CIO. Rugola is wrapping...
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Anti-LGBT ballot measures mar election celebration
November 7, 2008While working families and the people as a whole scored a major victory by electing Barack Obama and claiming larger majorities in Congress on Nov. 4, several states hammered the rights and equality of LGBT people....
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Tears of joy greet Obama election
November 7, 2008CHICAGO — With the nation and world watching, lights sparkled across Grant Park on Election Night as more than 240,000 Americans of all races and backgrounds gathered to hear President-elect Barack Obama call on them to...
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