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  • OPINION: Barney Smith, not Smith Barney

    OPINION: Barney Smith, not Smith Barney

    September 24, 2008 By Joelle Fishman

    The shockwaves from the financial crisis have left working class families in every part of the country in a state of great worry and fear. Over $100 billion of public money has been spent to bail...

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  • McCain-Palin attacks fall flat with Latinos

    McCain-Palin attacks fall flat with Latinos

    September 20, 2008

    The Republican attack machine has launched a multifaceted offensive to falsely accuse Democrat Barak Obama of being anti-immigrant. In Spanish-language ads directed at Latino voters in the battleground states of Florida, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada,...

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  • Wall Street meltdown wallops Main Street

    Wall Street meltdown wallops Main Street

    September 20, 2008

    The most serious financial crisis since the 1930s exploded this week, plunging global markets into a meltdown, pushing credit card rates up, threatening life savings and pensions, hiking the jobless rate, and sending John McCain and...

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  • Latino voters key to Obama win in battleground states

    Latino voters key to Obama win in battleground states

    September 19, 2008

    The historic Nov. 4th presidential election is less than two months away, and a monumental battle is heating up in a few crucial swing states, as some nine million Latino voters prepare to cast their ballot,...

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  • Michigan, Ohio fight GOP dirty tricks

    Michigan, Ohio fight GOP dirty tricks

    September 18, 2008

    The Obama campaign filed a lawsuit Sept. 16 to block an apparent Republican Party effort in Michigan to use home foreclosure lists to exclude registered voters in the Detroit area from casting ballots this November. At...

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