Jun
30
2010
Ohio, with its 20 electoral votes, has always been in the top tier of bellwether-states-to-watch in presidential elections given that you have to go back to 1960 — when Richard Nixon carried it in his losing race against John F. Kennedy — for the last time it failed to support the winner. And most of [...]
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Jun
30
2010
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who was fired by President Obama as the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, will retire with four stars despite not meeting the military’s requirements to do so, CNN reports. “The president believes and has talked with Secretary Gates about this, and we will do whatever is necessary to ensure he, somebody [...]
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Jun
30
2010
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Jun
30
2010
Federal agents have cracked a Russian spy operation with shades of the Cold War, arresting ten people accused of serving as undercover agents in the United States, the Justice Department announced Monday. Details are still emerging about the suspects, who were suburban residents of several American cities whose friends were shocked to learn they were [...]
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Jun
30
2010
A pair of polls are out today on the Ohio governor’s race with one showing incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland in the lead, while another survey has former Republican Rep. John Kasich running neck-and-neck with him. Strickland, is leading Kasich 43 percent to 38 percent with 4 percent preferring someone else or not planning to vote, [...]
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