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• Commentary: Rooting for a Bill Clinton-Pickens ticket
  While the political world held its breath awaiting the two presumptive presidential candidates' vice presidential picks, I slipped out of Washington and paid a visit to the real world.
  
  
• Commentary: Why Obama has to get mad to win
  With all of the vice presidential buzz in the air and the Democratic convention just days away, what's most important is what Sen. Barack Obama's campaign does following his speech to the masses at Invesco Field next Thursday.
  
  
• McCain blasts Obama on offshore oil drilling
  Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday responded directly to his Republican opponent's charge that he has changed his positions on Iraq for political expediency, saying, "The times are too serious for this kind of politics."
  
  
• Ohio congresswoman Tubbs Jones dies
  Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio -- a Democratic superdelegate and one of Hillary Clinton's most ardent supporters -- was hospitalized in critical condition Wednesday after suffering an aneurysm, the hospital said.
  
  
• Bloomberg eyes NYC skyline, sees wind turbines
  New York's famous skyline may be getting a new addition: Wind turbines.
  
  
• Obama ties McCain to Bush's economic policies
  Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday lambasted his Republican rival's economic plan, arguing that Sen. John McCain would continue President Bush's policies and "we can't keep on going in the same direction."
  
  
• Florida man pleads not guilty in Obama threat case
  A man who prosecutors said threatened to assassinate presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama pleaded not guilty Wednesday before a federal magistrate, officials said.
  
  

washingtonpost.com - Elections
Complete coverage of the 2006 midterm elections, congressional campaigns and governors races. Political news and analysis from The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com.

• Plugged In Nationally, Tuned Out Of the District
  Harold Ickes is the prototypical insider, a career political operative who knows as much about how Washington works as anyone.
  
  
• Convention Lineup
  Here is the announced lineup of speakers for the Republican National Convention, Sept. 1 to 4 in St. Paul, Minn.
  
  
• Giuliani, Lieberman Will Speak at GOP Convention
  Socially moderate former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and former Democratic vice presidential nominee Joseph I. Lieberman will have featured speaking roles at next month's Republican National Convention, party officials announced yesterday.
  
  
• Obama Team Seeks Changes in Primaries
  Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign will call next week for the creation of a commission to revise the rules for selecting a presidential nominee in 2012, with a goal of reducing the power of superdelegates, whose role became a major point of contention during the long battle for the...
  
  
  
• Obama Courts Southside Virginia
  MARTINSVILLE, Va., Aug. 20 -- Sen. Barack Obama lamented the loss of U.S. jobs Wednesday as he campaigned in a region of southern Virginia that in recent elections has spurned Democratic presidential candidates.
  
  
• Who's No. 2? Obama Keeps Everybody Guessing.
  This is Veep Week. That, in reality, is about all that anyone outside Sen. Barack Obama's inner, inner circle knows -- that sometime before next week the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee will announce his running mate. Beyond that, the political world is in a zone of fevered speculation.
  
  
• Candidates Got Advance Look at Questions
  Responding to questions about whether Sen. John McCain had an unfair advantage over Sen. Barack Obama at Saturday's forum on faith at the Saddleback Church in California, a spokesman for the Rev. Rick Warren said both candidates had an advance look at a few questions.
  
  
• Obama Tells Allies He Is Ready to Hit Back
  ALBUQUERQUE, Aug. 18 -- Sen. Barack Obama returned to the presidential campaign trail on Monday after a week-long Hawaiian vacation and tried to assure anxious Democrats that he is ready to fight back against Republican character attacks that grew sharper in his absence.
  
  
  
• Renewable Power's Growth in Colorado Presages National Debate
  DENVER -- When Colorado voters were deciding whether to require that 10 percent of the state's electricity come from renewable fuels, the state's largest utility fought the proposal, warning that any shift from coal and natural gas would be costly, uncertain and unwise.
  
  
• Key Constituency Is at Play At Candidates' Faith Forum
  LAKE FOREST, Calif., Aug. 16 -- Barack Obama and John McCain made their first joint appearance of the general election Saturday night, breaking away from the debates over national security and the economy that have dominated the campaign in recent weeks to court evangelical voters at an Orange...
  
  

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• Jesus Is Magic
  Inside the Fellowship of Christian Magicians, where Scripture-quoting puppets and flaming Bibles win souls for the Lord. Plus, watch videos of gospel illusionist Duane Laflin, motorcycle missionary Jill Bryan, and chalk artist Kerry Kistler in action HERE.
  
• Don't Let the Screen Door Hit You, Mr. President
  Compared to W, Herbert Hoover is starting to look awfully good.
  
• MoJo Video: Jesus Is Magic
  Inside the Fellowship of Christian Magicians, where Scripture-quoting puppets and flaming Bibles win souls for the Lord. Watch videos of gospel illusionist Duane Laflin, motorcycle missionary Jill Bryan, and chalk artist Kerry Kistler in action. To read the full story by Catherine Price, click HERE.
  
• Student Activism Firsts
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• Hellraisers: the Next Generation
  From the eco-MBA to the Christian hipster, college activism is alive and kicking—but what today's students care about might surprise you. By Kiera Butler and Leigh Ferrara From the eco-MBA to the Christian hipster, college activism is alive and kicking—but what today's students care about mig...
  
• Full Results of Mother Jones' 2008 Student Activism Survey
  
• Apocalypse Later
  A futurologist says our apathy to gradual change may bring about slow-motion apocalypse.
  
• Six Questions About the Anthrax Case
  The Bush administration has increased the likelihood not just that terror will come to "the homeland," but that it will come from the homeland.
  
• How To Burn the Speculators
  Why is the price of oil so high? Because the Bush administration did to the commodities market what it did to housing.
  
• Music Review: Chemical Chords
  Stereolab's latest album finds the sextet in a friendly groove. Don't miss the title track.
  

L.A. Times - Politics
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• McCain and Obama tax plans diverge on wealth
  True to party doctrine, the GOP candidate's economic proposals would ease the burden on the rich, while the Democratic candidate's would increase it.
  
  One in a series of occasional stories
  
• How their tax plans compare
  How their tax plans compare Individual income taxes
  
• Conservatives urge McCain to select a running mate who opposes abortion
  His noncommittal responses and the release of the GOP convention schedule fail to allay their concerns. Many of those speaking -- and the VP pick may well be among them -- favor abortion rights.
  
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• Barack Obama courts middle-class Virginians with tax strategy
  The ailing economy is his focus at a town hall meeting in Martinsville, a city whose unemployment rate is double the nation's.
  
  Many textile, tobacco and furniture jobs -- and their middle-class wages -- hav...
  
• Schwarzenegger to speak at Republican convention
  The California governor has said he would not attend the convention if the state budget is not in place.
  
  SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is slated for a prime-time speaking slot on the opening nigh...
  
• Obama and McCain in a statistical tie
  A Times/Bloomberg poll finds that Obama shows few signs of winning new voters. The issue of experience goes McCain's way.
  
  John McCain has begun rallying dispirited Republicans behind him, while Democratic r...
  
• Obama ratchets up negative advertising
  In a departure for his campaign, TV and radio spots critical of rival John McCain are airing in battleground states.
  
  Sen. Barack Obama, under persistent attack from his Republican rival, is intensifying his...
  
• Obama says McCain shouldn't question his patriotism
  Obama defends his foreign policy positions at the Veterans of Foreign Wars conference. McCain visits an oil production facility in the Gulf of Mexico.
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama def...
  
• In announcing a running mate, timing and place are key
  For McCain and Obama, the choice of when and where to announce their vice presidential picks can maximize publicity and minimize potential problems at their conventions.
  
  As Barack Obama and John McCain edge...
  
• Biden rises among vice presidential candidates, sources say
  Biden's colleague from Delaware, Sen. Thomas Carper, and others say there are signs that he has leaped to the top of Obama's list of potential running mates. But Biden says, 'I'm not the guy.'
  
  As Sen. Barac...