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Published 8/25/2008 by Shailagh Murray and Anne E. Kornblut at Wash Post Elections

DENVER, Aug. 24 -- Sen. Barack Obama launched a four-day tour of battleground states Sunday to coincide with Monday's opening of the Democratic convention and its ambitious agenda of selling Obama to a national audience, presenting a forceful case against Republican rival John McCain and unifying... (link)

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