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WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Sen. John McCain, riding a wave of primary victories and favorable polls, is seen by many Illinois Republican insiders as the front-runner in the state's presidential primary. ... Romney's Illinois highlight was a presidential straw poll at the state fair last August, when about 1,000 people cast votes and he won with 40 percent - twice as much as the second-place finisher, Fred Thompson, who now backs McCain. ...

Senator Edward M. Kennedy has agreed to a multimillion dollar deal with Hachette Book Group USA to pen his memoirs, giving the veteran Massachusetts lawmaker a forum for his own perspective on a life and career that has been examined by others in countless books and articles, negotiators of the deal confirmed yesterday. more stories like this Hillary Clinton Ark. papers unreleased King of the Mountain, Spin, and the Boys' Club Clinton seeks to convince voters she won debate CORRECTED: Clinton seeks to convince voters she won debate Kennedy back at work after surgery Neither Kennedy's office nor the publishing...

Many of you have heard conservative traditionalists rant about "The Gay Agenda." But no one really knows what that agenda is. Well, I've discovered a copy, and I will summarize it for you: 8am - Protein shake 9am - Work out at the gym 10am - Rape straight men, give pornography to children, bulldoze all churches and destroy the sanctity of marriage (or what's left of it after Fox's "Married By America.") Hey, wait a minute... Some of the most important people in my life are gay men and lesbian women. And I can assure you, being gay does not...

DENVER (AP) - Colorado voters decided Tuesday whether to suspend the state's fiscally conservative Taxpayer's Bill of Rights to stave off potentially drastic cuts in such areas as college education and health care for the poor. Polling ahead of the election suggest it would be a close vote, and the secretary of state was predicting a near-record turnout for an off-year. In Greeley, voters at one library waited in line for 40 minutes to cast their ballots. "My job depends on it. Without it, we're toast," said Laura Manuel, who works at Metropolitan State College in Denver and supported suspending...

Former Clinton Economic Advisor Laura Tyson to Host Conference Call to Discuss Dick Cheney's False Attack 3/29/2004 10:32:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor, Political Reporter Contact: Chad Clanton of John Kerry for President, 202-712-3000, Web site: http://www.johnkerry.com News Advisory: Laura Tyson, the former Chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, will host a conference call at 11:45 a.m. today to discuss Dick Cheney's misleading comments and the Administration's fiscal irresponsibility. Tyson, who also served as President Clinton's Chair of the National Economic Council, will discuss John Kerry's plan to lower corporate taxes to encourage job creation...