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| x Abortion |
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An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo, resulting in or caused by its death. An abortion can occur spontaneously due to complications during pregnancy or can be induced, in...
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| x Arab-Israeli conflict |
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The Arab–Israeli conflict (Arabic: الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي Aṣ-Ṣirāʿ al-ʿArabī al-'Isrā'īlī, Hebrew: הסכסוך הישראלי-ערבי hasikhsukh hayisre'eli-aravi) spans roughly one century of political tensions and open hostilities, though Israel itself only...
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| x Capital punishment |
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Capital punishment or the death penalty, is the execution of a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offense. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from...
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| x Education |
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Education in its broadest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated...
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| x Rudy Giuliani |
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| x John McCain |
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John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election.
McCain followed his father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, into...
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| x Climate change |
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Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather over periods of time that range from decades to millions of years. It can be a change in the average weather or a change in the distribution of weather events around an average ...
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| x Social Security |
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Social Security in the United States currently refers to the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program.
The original Social Security Act (1935) and the current version of the Act, as amended encompass several social...
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| x Same-sex marriage |
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Same-sex marriage (also called gay marriage) is a legally or socially recognized marriage between two persons of the same biological sex or social gender.
Same-sex marriage is a civil rights, political, social, moral, and/or religious issue in many...
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| x John Edwards |
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Johnny Reid "John" Edwards (born June 10, 1953) is an American politician who served one term as U.S. Senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential...
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| x Bob Barr |
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Robert Laurence "Bob" Barr, Jr. (born November 5, 1948) is a former federal prosecutor and a former member of the United States House of Representatives. He represented Georgia's 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1995 to 2003. He was...
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| x Corporate governance |
Corporate governance is the set of processes, customs, policies, laws, and institutions affecting the way a corporation (or company) is directed, administered or controlled. Corporate governance also includes the relationships among the many...
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| x Dennis Kucinich |
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Dennis John Kucinich (pronounced /kuːˈsɪnɪtʃ/; born October 8, 1946) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives and was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2004 and 2008...
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| x Health care |
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Health care (often healthcare in American English), is the treatment and management of illness, and the preservation of health through services offered by the medical, dental, complementary and alternative medicine, pharmaceutical, clinical vimto...
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| x Mike Gravel |
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Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel (pronounced /ɡrəˈvɛl/; born May 13, 1930) is a former Democratic United States Senator from Alaska, who served two terms from 1969 to 1981, and a former candidate in the 2008 presidential election.
Born and raised in...
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| x Mike Huckabee |
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Michael Dale "Mike" Huckabee (born August 24, 1955) is a Republican politician and political commentator for Fox News Channel and ABC Radio who served as governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. Huckabee finished second in the 2008 United States...
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| x Mitt Romney |
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Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American businessman and former Governor of Massachusetts. Romney was CEO of Bain & Company, a management consulting firm, and co-founder of Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm. After his...
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| x Barack Obama |
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Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the President of the United States and a former junior United States Senator from Illinois. Obama is the first African American to be elected President of the United States. He is a graduate of...
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| x Fred Dalton Thompson |
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Fred Dalton Thompson (born Freddie Dalton Thompson on August 19, 1942), is an American politician, actor, attorney, lobbyist, and radio host. He represented Tennessee as a Republican in the U.S. Senate from 1994 through 2003.
Thompson served as...
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| x David E. Bonior |
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David Edward Bonior (born June 6, 1945) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. First elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, Bonior served as Democratic whip in the House from 1991 to 2002, during which time...
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| x Network neutrality |
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Network neutrality (also net neutrality, Internet neutrality) is a principle proposed for residential broadband networks and potentially for all networks. A neutral broadband network is one that is free of restrictions on content, sites, or...
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| x Energy policy |
Energy policy is the manner in which a given entity (often governmental) has decided to address issues of energy development including energy production, distribution and consumption. The attributes of energy policy may include legislation,...
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| x David Plouffe |
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David Plouffe (pronounced /plʌf/, born 1967 ) is an American political strategist best known as the chief campaign manager for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign in the United States. A long-time Democratic Party campaign consultant, he is a...
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| x Guantanamo Bay detainment camp |
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Guantanamo Bay is a highly controversial detainment facility located in Cuba. It has been the target of numerous protests and media attacks due to its allegedly unorthodox and cruel treatment of captives. The facility is operated by Joint Task Force...
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| x Hillary Rodham Clinton |
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Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (pronounced /ˈhɪləri daɪˈæn ˈrɒdəm ˈklɪntən/; born October 26, 1947) is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving within the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York...
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| x Iraq War |
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The Iraq War, also known as the Occupation of Iraq or Operation Iraqi Freedom, is an ongoing military campaign which began on March 19, 2003, with the invasion of Iraq by a multinational force led by troops from the United States and the United...
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| x Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, 2008 |
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New York junior Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton had expressed interest in the 2008 United States presidential election since at least October 2002, drawing media speculation on whether she would become a candidate. No woman has...
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| x Illegal immigration |
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Illegal immigration is immigration across national borders in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country. Illegal immigrants are also known as illegal aliens to differentiate them from legal aliens. In politics, the term may...
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| x Stem cell research policy |
Stem cell research policy, a controversial topic, varies significantly throughout the world. There are overlapping jurisdictions of international organizations, nations, and states or provinces. Some government policies determine what is allowed...
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| x Mitt Romney presidential campaign, 2008 |
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Mitt Romney was a Republican Party primary candidate in the 2008 United States presidential election. On January 3, 2007, two days before he stepped down as governor of Massachusetts, Romney filed to form a presidential exploratory committee with...
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| x Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008 |
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On February 10, 2007, Barack Obama, then junior United States Senator from Illinois, announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States in Springfield, Illinois. On June 3, 2008, he secured enough delegates to become the presumptive...
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| x Rudy Giuliani presidential campaign, 2008 |
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Rudy Giuliani’s 2008 presidential campaign began after the establishment of a draft movement in October 2005. In November of the following year, Giuliani formed an exploratory committee and formally announced that he was actively running for the...
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| x Mike Gravel presidential campaign, 2008 |
Mike Gravel, a former United States Senator from Alaska, on April 17, 2006, declared his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2008 election, in a speech to the National Press Club.
His campaign gained an...
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| x John McCain presidential campaign, 2008 |
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John McCain, the senior United States Senator from Arizona, launched his second candidacy for the presidency of the United States in an unsuccessful bid for the 2008 presidential election. His candidacy, in the works for a number of years, was...
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| x Ron Paul presidential campaign, 2008 |
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Ron Paul was a Republican Party primary candidate in the 2008 United States presidential election.
Initial opinion polls during the first three quarters of 2007 showed Ron Paul consistently receiving support from 3% or less of those polled. In the...
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| x John Edwards presidential campaign, 2008 |
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John Edwards is the former United States Senator from North Carolina and was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004. On December 28, 2006, he announced his entry into the 2008 Presidential election in the city of New Orleans near sites...
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| x George Phillies presidential campaign, 2008 |
George Phillies was born July 23, 1947 in Buffalo, New York, first son of Eustace G. Phillies, M.D. and Clara Phillies. Phillies grew up in Kenmore and Williamsville, New York, finished as salutatorian at the Williamsville Central High School [now...
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| x Mike Huckabee presidential campaign, 2008 |
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Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas, announced his candidacy for the Republican Party nomination for the 2008 presidential election in the United States on January 28 2007. Huckabee ended his bid for the Republican Nomination, after losing...
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| x Duncan Hunter presidential campaign, 2008 |
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Fourteen-term Congressman and Vietnam War veteran Duncan Hunter of California announced his intentions to run for the 2008 Republican nomination for President of the United States in January 2007. He focused his campaign on the issues of border...
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| x Fred Thompson presidential campaign, 2008 |
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Fred Thompson was a Republican Party primary candidate to represent his party in the 2008 United States presidential election. Thompson has worked as a lawyer, lobbyist, and character actor, and he represented Tennessee as a Republican in the U.S....
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| x Rick Davis |
Richard H. "Rick" Davis, Jr. (born 1957) is an internationally recognized political leader having spent thirty years in public affairs and business. He currently serves as a Partner in the Pegasus Sustainable Century Merchant Bank, a private equity...
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