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Obama overtakes Clinton in Democratic superdelegates :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Barack Obama (U.S., 46 articles)
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USA TODAY On the eve of the West Virginia primary, most Democrats nationally say Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton should continue the campaign, but more now say that it's time for Clinton to quit. 35% of Democrats surveyed by USA TODAY say the New York senator should drop out, a jump of 12 percentage points in a week, while 55% say both should stay in. While pundits and some party leaders are ready for the Democratic race to be over already, voters are fine with the contest continuing, according to a new poll. In the ABC News/Washington Post survey released late today, 64 percent of Democrats and even 42 percent of Barack Obama backers say Hillary Clinton should keep going. A majority of Democrats say the protracted primaries won't hurt the party's prospects in November, and 15 percent in the poll said they would actually help the party. Hamrick wasn't supposed to talk politics on work time, but the enthusiasm for Clinton was infectious. Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said Saturday Malley called the Obama campaign on Friday to sever ties with the candidate after learning the Times of London was publishing a story about his contacts with the terrorist group.
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US begins aid flights to Myanmar cyclone victims (World, 26 articles)
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But international aid groups said the number of dead could eventually top 100,000 - and the British aid group Oxfam said 1.5 million, if residents don't get clean water and sanitation soon. A U.S. plane ferried relief to Myanmar for the first time Monday to help nearly 2 million cyclone victims facing disease and starvation, but the U.N. chief criticized the military junta for its " unacceptably slow response. Local staff for international relief agencies are stretched to breaking point and facing tighter restrictions on their ability to deliver the trickle of foreign aid flowing in to 1.5 million survivors facing hunger and disease.
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Pro-EU alliance wins Serbia election (World, 14 articles)
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Serbs voted on 11 May in the first general election since Kosovo declared independence on 17 February - an event that sharply polarised Serbian society. Serbia's coalition government collapsed in March as a result of irreconcilable divisions over how to respond to Kosovo's bid for independence, and early elections were called. Serbia went into Sunday's parliamentary elections after the fall of an unstable coalition - and will probably emerge with another unstable coalition at the helm.
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Democrats Take Control of Senate As Allen Concedes to Webb in Va. (U.S., 14 articles)
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Democratic challenger James Webb held a slim lead over Republican Sen. George Allen early today in Virginia's U.S. Senate race, a dramatic and nasty battle that almost certainly will be decided by a recount next month. With more than 99 percent of the votes tallied by about 2 a.m. today, Webb claimed victory with a lead of about 7,800 votes among the more than 2.3 million cast a difference of three-tenths of a percent. HAMPTON, Nov. 3 U.S. Sen. George Allen and Democratic challenger James Webb fired up black voters Friday on swings through southeast Virginia, the state's most populous region outside the Washington suburbs.
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Hezbollah orders West Beirut withdrawal as army offers olive branch (World, 12 articles)
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The worst fighting Monday was in the northern city of Tripoli, where government supporters and gunmen loyal to the opposition Hezbollah militia clashed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades. In the mountains above Beirut, clouds of white smoke drifted on the breeze as Hezbollah and the pro government Druse militia traded mortar and automatic gunfire. On Saturday, Hezbollah agreed to pull its fighters off the streets of Muslim western Beirut after the army overturned government measures aimed at curbing the group.
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