nytimes.com - 11/2/2008
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Barack Obama’s campaign said that the senator had no knowledge of the immigration status of a Kenyan relative who was reported to be living in the United States illegally. >
timesonline.co.uk - 11/3/2008
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timesonline.co.uk —
The trail that led to Aunt Zeituni ,
the relative of Barack Obama who was traced by...
The Times last week, started with Mr Obama s memoir, one of the most widely read political autobiographies of all time. The Democrat campaign has implied that the ...
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How The Times followed a trail to find Barack ...
news.bostonherald.com - 11/1/2008
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news.bostonherald.com —
arack Obama s campaign has confirmed that a
woman living in a South Boston housing project is...
indeed the senator s aunt, a little-known relationship that was only revealed this week - five days before the election. Obama spokesman Reid Cherlin ...
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Campaign confirms Obama aunt in South Boston
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The Sunday Word: A Numbers Game
The Caucus —
... history, and “the first” and “the oldest” capture only some of what has made it so remarkable. On the Trail Four states take center stage on Sunday – Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire. The candidates will be focusing their attention on these battlegrounds. Mr. Obama holds three events in Ohio today while his running mate, Senator Joe Biden, campaigns around Florida. A report that Senator Obama’s Kenyan aunt, Zeituni Onyango, has been living illegally in the United States dogged the Democrat on the campaign trail yesterday . The Obama campaign said the ...
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NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Near the end of the 2008 presidential race, Zeituni Onyango, the half-aunt of President Obama, and her trouble with immigration authorities became a minor campaign issue. However, CNN gave it scant coverage. On November 1, 2008, anchor Don Lemon gave an news brief about Ms. Onyango: “CNN has confirmed a report that Zeituni Onyango, his late father’s sister, is living in the United States illegally, four years after she was ordered to leave by an immigration judge.” He asked Crowley, then on the campaign trail covering Obama, for the Democrat’s ...
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news.yahoo.com 11/2/2008 — AP - Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Saturday he didn't know his aunt was living in the United States illegally and believes that laws covering the situation should be followed.
Morning Status Update for 11/04
pollster.com 11/4/2008 — First, let me take this opportunity to thank everyone at Pollster for putting together such a valuable resource. So, thanks! Second, I'd love to see Pollster--and the industry in general--adopt a new classification scheme down the road. Basically, as ...
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powerlineblog.com 11/1/2008 — Yesterday Glenn Reynolds made the rounds in his usual style, spotlighting an interesting story and related posts on Barack Obama's aunt Zeituni Onyango (I've deleted the "update" notations):
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pollster.com 10/21/2008 — Thanks for the shout out! For what it is worth, I agree entirely with your conclusions. As I would put it, I think there is ample evidence that there was a slight tightening. On the other hand, I think the temporary shift in the poll mix may have ...
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powerlineblog.com 11/1/2008 — Yesterday we noted the London Times ( here ) and Boston Globe ( here ) news stories on Barack Obama's aunt Zeituni Onyango. Ms. Onyango was found living in run-down Boston public housing, though she has enough money to have contributed $260 to ...
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pollster.com 10/23/2008 — I am not familiar with political polling, but I have spent my career conducting survey research for businesses. I heard a plausible explanation for why the presidential polls vary wildly or overstate Obama support. To estimate the election, each poll ...
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First Read 11/2/2008
“Responding
to a report that a Kenyan relative of Senator Barack Obama was living
in the United States illegally, his campaign said Saturday that he had
no knowledge of her immigration status and that ‘any and all
appropriate laws’ should be ...
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