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Heidi and Spencer Are Proud to Fulfill Their Civic Duty
Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt joined the rest of the celebrity voters and headed to the polls in LA yesterday. While their choice for President didn't win the election, the couple still took the opportunity to pose for patriotic photos. As they supported their candidates, Heidi's dad was endorsing Spencer.
Presidential Election Mailers Can Get Ugly
Messages based on fear have been getting out via mailers lately. The Republican Party of Virginia has sent out an ad that says "American must look evil in the eye and never flinch." It features an almost unrecognizable picture of Osama bin Laden, in which the skin is darker, the beard lighter, and the nose covered by words.
Five Online Tools to Help You on Election Day
With the Presidential Race in the homestretch (only one day away!), many of you will be tuning into your televisions to follow all the late-breaking election news. For those of you who will be away from your TV, but find yourself near a computer or have your smartphone with you, you can not only check out all of the latest news on citizensugar, but you can also find voting help, advice, and get election updates from the following websites and online tools!
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Campaign-Themed Food: Our Top Votes
With the presidential election less than two months away, the whole country's been talking, breathing, and sleeping campaign politics. It's only natural, then, that we've been eating up campaign politics, too — and boy, is it tasty. We had some tough choices to make, but these treats get our top votes.
iTunes Beefs Up Election App Selection
With the Presidential Election just 32 days away, techies like myself are already gearing up for the big day with useful geek goodies like the Election 08 application for the iPhone; which shows me real time results from the polls. It's been a few weeks since I've perused on over to the election section in the iTunes app store, and I must admit, they've totally pimped it out with new campaign apps like "Obama '08" and "DaysTo Election Day 2008."
So if you're glued to your iPhone as much as me, and want to stay up-to-date with all the election happenings, I suggest heading over to the app store pronto!
Tonight's The Night! A Look Back at Election Coverage
Happy election day, everyone! Since we'll soon be closing the book on this long election cycle, here's one last look at some beauty-full political stories:
- Five ways to relax on election night
- Election-inspired beauty products
- See yourself with Sarah Palin's hairstyle, virtually
- ...or try it out for real
- A talk with Michelle Obama's hairstylist
- Is Palin paying too much for makeup?
- Sarah Palin inspires a lipstick shade
- Presidential perfumes, no joke
- Why Michelle Obama doesn't always wear makeup
Obama Refuses Public Financing. What Does This Mean?
I might be a special brand of crazy, but when I woke up to this news this morning, I started hyperventilating: Obama is not accepting public financing.
In shunning each tax-payer's $3 contribution we kick in when we pay our taxes, Obama is the first candidate to do so since Congress passed 1970s campaign finance laws after Watergate in the 1970s. McCain, the Republican nominee in waiting, has already taken steps to accept the public funds in the general election — matching funds that put a cap on how much each candidate can spend.
Gordon Brown Gets in Trouble For Praising Barack Obama
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown seemed to break with tradition by writing an effective endorsement of Barack Obama for US President, or at least his housing policies. In an opinion piece, published on Monday in the Parliamentary Monitor magazine, Brown writes: Around the world, it is progressive politicians who are grappling with these challenges. In the electrifying US Presidential campaign, it is the Democrats who are generating the ideas to help people through more difficult times.
Front Page: Late Rallies Hope to Push Voters to Morning Polls
- Last night the candidates wrapped up two years of campaigning. Barack Obama saved his biggest Virginia rally for last — a jam-packed event in Manassas with 90,000 people reportedly in attendance. Meanwhile, a fired-up John McCain told supporters to "be strong and fight" in an election eve rally Monday, his last before voters in swing state Nevada weigh in.
Mommy? What's a President?
Kissing babies has long been a part of the presidential election process, but now more children are becoming interested in the campaign as a result of nonstop media coverage and listening in to mommy and daddy's conversations.
The What Presidents Are Made of book ($13) is a good starter for political tots. It focuses on 17 US presidents and includes short antidotes that show the human side of our former presidents.
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