Published 8/17/2008
by Shailagh Murray and Perry Bacon Jr.
at Wash Post Elections
LAKE FOREST, Calif., Aug. 16 -- Barack Obama and John McCain made their first joint appearance of the general election here Saturday night, breaking away from the debates over national security and the economy that have dominated the campaign in recent weeks to court evangelical voters at an Oran...
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