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by Lawrence Bobo onDecember 16, 2008
McCain worked the room. Obama worked the issues.
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by Terence Samuel onDecember 16, 2008
McCain did everything he needed to do and still lost.
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by Kai Wright onDecember 16, 2008
Hate-fueled campaigning cannot be covered as mere political hardball.
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December 16, 2008
Okay, so you haven't granted The Root an interview yet, but we're willing yo wait our turn if you sit down with Damon Weaver. You've done Meet the Press and 60 Minutes. Enough with the big wigs. Time to cut a cub reporter a break.
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December 16, 2008
They despise each other and agree on nothing, but what if?
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by jimi izrael onDecember 16, 2008
Withholding a handshake is a direct violation.
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by Paul Devlin onDecember 16, 2008
Barack Obama has been compared to everybody from FDR to James Baldwin. But now let's add Pope John Paul II.
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by Rose-Anne Clermont onDecember 16, 2008
Hard times, fear and misinformation are a dangerous mix, no matter who wins the election.
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by Sam Fulwood III onDecember 15, 2008
I know what the polls say, but I'm still too scared to go there.
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by MIchele Elam onDecember 15, 2008
Give Obama credit for not trying to use his biracial background as an appeal to white working-class voters.
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