With candidates focusing on bigger Super Tuesday states, supporters knock on doors, make signs, sort through polling data and improvise meetings -- all without help from the campaigns.
On behalf of John McCain, Tom Kuypers does his best.
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As polls show room for Super Tuesday surprises, Romney hits California while others target the Northeast.
Presidential hopefuls battled coast to coast Monday to win support and gain advantage in today's unprecedented balloting -- a near-national primary that grew more unpredictable in its final hours.
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In person or via phone banks, Democratic and GOP aspirants crave every delegate they can garner.
On the final day before the presidential campaign's biggest prize thus far, today's delegate-rich California primary, the candidates called on influential friends and legions of volunteers to rally their faithful one last time before the polls open.
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Questions and answers about how the two major parties apportion their delegates as 24 states and American Samoa votes.
Today -- Super Tuesday -- residents in 24 states and American Samoa will vote in the largest single day of balloting in the history of presidential primaries.
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The group backing 'Hillary: The Movie' says promoting it is a simple free-speech issue and wants the Supreme Court to scrap disclosure rule for political ads.
Television ads promoting movies are not the normal business of politics or the courts, but they are this month because conservative activists are seeking a wide audience for "Hillary: The Movie."
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House committee chairman would not say whether Senate version will prevail, but deal is near on bill that would offer legal protections for telecoms that aided federal government with terror suspects' phone numbers.
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Hillary Clinton is looking for a late comeback ahead of this week's Super Tuesday 2 primary and is doing whatever it takes — whether testing her comedic chops or hitting her Democratic presidential primary opponent as ill-equipped to manage a crisis.
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When Justice Stephen Breyer leans toward his microphone at the end of the bench, lawyers can expect to be asked almost anything.
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President Bush declined Saturday to repeat promises made by others in his administration that more U.S. troops will return home from Iraq than scheduled before he leaves office.
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Just a few months ago, few imagined she'd be struggling to catch up to Obama. But her team has been riddled with feuding and second-guessing at the top.
As they mapped out a campaign schedule for Bill Clinton, top aides to Hillary Rodham Clinton kept his time short in South Carolina. They were probably going to lose the state, they figured, and they wanted their most powerful surrogate to move on to Georgia, Alabama and other Southern states.
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The candidate's aides say the corruption case of early donor Tony Rezko will be a distraction but won't harm the campaign.
Starting even before Barack Obama graduated from law school, his career as a lawyer and politician was nurtured by a Chicago businessman named Tony Rezko .
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The Los Angeles mayor recently has spent a total of almost three weeks stumping for presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton.
For more than 2 1/2 years, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has been the public face of Los Angeles, appearing in one neighborhood after the next and often leading the nightly news.
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The Democratic presidential candidates campaign across Ohio in advance of Tuesday's primary.
With less than two days to go before Tuesday's crucial primary elections, Democratic presidential contenders Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama barnstormed across Ohio on Sunday, with Clinton seeking to shore up support in a state where she holds a slim lead in the polls and Obama deriding his Senate colleague for her "experience" in foreign policy.
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A mong the jillion words written about Karen Bass' election as the next Assembly speaker, one quote is the most striking. It tells a lot about why the Legislature tends toward dysfunction.
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Senate and House intelligence committees will hear briefings on U.S. intelligence linking North Korea to Syria's secret nuclear program following a Sept. 6 Israeli air raid that destroyed an alleged site.
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Efforts to help free an American pastor sentenced to more than three years in prison by a Russian court for smuggling in a box of hunting ammo attracted renewed attention Tuesday as Washington officials added their diplomatic heft to the cause.
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A Louisiana Senate panel blocked a bill Tuesday that would ban people from wearing their pants too low.
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The Bush administration would require commercial airlines and cruise-line operators to collect information such as fingerprints from international travelers, according to a proposed rule.
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Women, seniors and blue-collar voters buoy her to a 10-percentage-point win over Barack Obama - enough to keep the Democratic contest alive awhile longer.
Hillary Rodham Clinton easily won the Pennsylvania primary Tuesday, staving off elimination and ensuring that the Democrats' fierce nominating battle would last at least another two weeks.
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The same crucial questions remain for her -- and for the superdelegates expected to decide the nomination.
Pennsylvania voters Tuesday gave Hillary Rodham Clinton every reason to continue her campaign for president.
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The small Pennsylvania industrial town served as an unlikely battleground for the hard-working but struggling voters Obama needs and Clinton must keep.
After six weeks of testy campaigning by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama for the affections of this working-class city that has seen better days, voters streamed to the polls Tuesday.
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The GOP candidate says protectionism will not help displaced workers. He proposes job-training programs and a crackdown on trade violations.
When John McCain went to Michigan on the eve of its January primary and told voters that the state's lost jobs were not coming back, many political experts thought he had made a huge mistake. Particularly after he was trounced by Mitt Romney, who pledged to rebuild the state's auto industry.
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The campaign finance law provision was intended to level the playing field in political races. A decision in June could affect the fall campaign.
Life can be unfair, even for wealthy candidates who can run for public office without asking others for money, the Supreme Court was told Tuesday.
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama appears on FOX News Sunday
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CIA interrogation techniques otherwise prohibited by international law might be legal in the face of an impending terrorist attack, the Justice Department says in newly disclosed letters to Capitol Hill.
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President Bush poked fun at his potential successors Saturday night, expressing surprise that none of them were in the audience at the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is "ready to help re-engage in negotiations" for the release of three American hostages held captive by rebels in Colombia, a visiting U.S. governor said late Saturday.
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His letter on behalf of a table tennis company preceded the funding.
After an unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 2000, Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama faced serious financial pressure: numerous debts, limited cash and a law practice he had neglected for a year. Help arrived in early 2001 from a significant new legal client -- a longtime political supporter.
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The governor says it is needed to transfer clean energy, but opponents say it's a new threat to California's natural resources.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is pushing state regulators to sign off on a high-voltage power line that a San Diego utility wants to build through the middle of California's largest state park.
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Asked about prejudice, most respondents report being personally open-minded about candidates -- but say they know someone who won't vote for an African American or a woman.
A delicious dispatch from the "I'm perfect, you're not" view of the universe department. . . .
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About 150 civic leaders, including volunteers, object to new disclosure requirements.
Help wanted: public servants willing to disclose major sources of income, business interests, real estate holdings and the names of their adult relatives.
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Moments earlier, the Democrat had called for an end to 'tit-for-tat bickering' in politics.
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Saturday called a proposal by Sen. John McCain for a federal gas tax holiday the "latest scheme" from the Republican presidential nominee-to-be.
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John Bolton may need some additional protection at his speech Wednesday evening in Wales, United Kingdom, as a journalist from the Guardian newspaper plans on making a citizen's arrest of the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
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U.S. President George W. Bush, linking the wars of his tenure to the deadliest one in history, is asking the country to commit anew to postwar rebuilding.
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White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Wednesday that it's clear former Press Secretary Scott McClellan is 'disgruntled' about his time working in the Bush administration.
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