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• Politics, Palin good for ‘Saturday Night Live’
NEW YORK - The politics-fueled ratings train of "Saturday Night Live" keeps rolling along this election season with Tina Fey's impersonations of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin luring viewers. "SNL" averaged a 7.4 household rating/18 ...
• Politics scuttles plan to put diplomats in Iran
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki acknowledged Thursday that his nation is closely monitoring the U.S. election, anticipating major changes from whoever occupies the White House next. WASHINGTON - The Bush administration shelved plans to set ...
• McCain booed for calling Obama 'decent'
But Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania an author of 15 books on politics, says the vitriol has been encouraged by inflammatory words from the stage. "Red-meat rhetoric elicits ...
• Gay marriage ban attracts big money in Calif.
According to figures compiled by the National Organization on Money in State Politics, a little less than $33 million was spent on campaigns to pass or defeat gay marriage bans in the 24 states where they appeared on ballots in 2004, 2005 and 2006 ...
• Colin Powell calls Sen. Stevens' word 'sterling'
It was not clear whether Stevens, the longest-serving Senate Republican and patriarch of Alaska politics for generations, would take the stand in his own defense. He has languished in the federal courtroom as a Democratic opponent back home mounts a ...