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• McCain, Obama close in TV audiences
The numbers put to rest the thought that politics has been a turnoff and death for ratings, which has long been gospel at the TV networks, Rosenstiel said.
• Obama curtails campaign to watch Gustav
There's a time for us to argue politics, but there's a time for us to come together as Americans," Obama said, trying to place himself above politics.
• Palin fires back at media, ‘Washington elite’
Palin acknowledged that she had not been in politics for long, calling herself “just your average hockey mom [who] signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids’ public education better.
• Cheney blasts Russia's 'threat of tyranny'
Cheney's trip comes at a difficult time in Ukrainian politics: Yushchenko and Tymoshenko are fighting bitterly, setting the government on the verge of collapse.
• McCain kicks off final drive for presidency
Palin joined other Republican speakers Wednesday night in praising McCain as a man of character, a former Vietnam prisoner of war who had spent his early career in the military and had sought to change the ways of politics in Washington.