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Plouffe to Democrats: Calm Down

Obama's campaign manager wants to reassure faithful that there's a plan — and it's all about undecided voters

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Can Obama Win Biden's Hometown?

Scranton now has two claims to fame: it provides the drab setting for The Office and spawned a Veep candidate. Will either help swing Pennsylvania for the Democrats?

Karl Rove's Campaign For Himself

Bush's brain has a new public persona — the kinda balanced pundit — and a new candidate to sell the public: himself

Romney's Veep Audition

Drug May Lower Cerebral Palsy Risk

The incidence of cerebral palsy in premature babies may be reduced by giving mothers magnesium sulfate, a common delivery-room drug, according to a new study

Chicago Braces for a School Boycott

Frustrated by unequal funding in Illinois, Windy City parents and students plan to protest in the suburbs

How to Make Great Teachers

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Having Obama do his big finish in another venue screws up the visual vernacular of the convention. In the end it will look like two different conventions; one visually dominated by Clintons, another by Obama.

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Is Biden Smart on the Middle East?

By Scott MacLeod

The vice-presidential candidate is experienced, but his Beltway mind-set won't solve the region's problems

The Curious Capitalist

Take My Airport ... Please!

By Barbara Kiviat

This morning's New York Times has a story about the "$250 billion war chest" amassed to finance a "tidal wave of infrastructure projects in the United States and overseas." I found the timing of this article a tad odd.

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How to Fake a Vermeer

By Richard Lacayo

This summer there are two new books about Han Van Meegeren, a 20th century forger who made a fortune by churning out bogus Vermeers that experts swore were the real thing.

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The Nominee

Sen. Obama becomes the Democratic nominee for President after Sen. Clinton suspends the state-by-state convention roll call. Read more on The Page

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Chet Edwards: The Veep Who Wasn't

By Karen Tumulty / Denver

The little-known Congressman was short-listed as Obama's running mate. Now he can't even get a Denver hotel

Second-Night Speech Report Cards

Brian Schweitzer and Hillary Clinton make Mark Halperin's dean's List. Keynote man Mark Warner? Not so much

Obama's Slow March to Denver

By Jay Newton-Small / Davenport, Iowa

Presidential nominees like to make a grand entrance, but Obama's meandering route to the Democratic convention has been more leisurely than most. Why?

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