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For some reason, Barack Obama doesn't seem to suffer from a lack of name ID in Arizona. A new Cronkite/Eight Poll asked the following open-ended question: "Next year we will elect a new president. Is there a candidate you would like to see become the next president of the United States ? If so, who?" Fifty-one percent didn't offer an opinion, but here are the results from the 49 percent who did:
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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama met with family members of kidnapped soldier Ehud Goldwasser at the Senate on Wednesday night. Obama sympathized with the public struggle to release the Israeli soldiers held captive by Hezbollah, namely, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, as well as Gilad Shalit who was abducted by Islamic forces in the Gaza Strip. The meeting took place after the kidnapped soldiers' family members met with congress members on Capitol Hill earlier in the day, and with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York on Tuesday.
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ANCR VO: In the Senate, Barack Obama challenged both parties and passed tough new ethics laws reigning in the power of lobbyists. And he's the only candidate refusing contributions from PACs and Washington lobbyists who have too much power today.
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Here is a picture of Illinois Senator Barack Obama using his BlackBerry. He hasn’t officially declared himself a candidate... all indications point towards him making a run for president in 08.
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"Barack Obama is not a fair weather friend to working Americans, he has been there when the going gets rough, on the picket line with hotel workers again and again and there when we need him," says President/Hospitality Industries John Wilhelm. "Even among this impressive field of candidates, we are proud to offer him our support in this election, and eager to help him win."
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All Things Considered, August 23, 2007 ยท Illinois Sen. Barack Obama recently asserted that he would put red states in play because of the impact he would have in bringing out black voters. David Bositis, senior political analyst at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a think tank in Washington that focuses on blacks and politics, talks with Robert Siegel about the potential impact of a black candidate on black voter turnout in the upcoming presidential race.
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