The politics and economics of energy are shifting as states create renewable-energy mandates and the federal government moves toward limiting carbon emissions, reports The Washington Post.

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Voters view shifting policy decisions through the prism of their overall assessments of a candidate’s character, writes Gloria Borger of U.S. News & World Report.

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Coleman faces a tough re-election race.

(CNN) — Among Republican senators, an invitation to the party’s convention next month in Minneapolis might just be the easiest ticket to score in town.
Amid news several Senate Republicans have already backed out of attending the quadannual event, Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman made clear Monday he wouldn’t attend either — […]

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Obama attacked McCain for jokingly defining ‘rich’ as earning more than $5 million or more a year.

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (CNN) – Barack Obama took a jab Monday at a weekend comment by John McCain that the minimum income for “rich” making $5 million a year.
At an economic roundtable discussion of the economy Monday in Albuquerque, […]

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John McCain is whining about the media — again. His campaign manager, Rick Davis, wants to meet with the president of NBC News to protest the network’s coverage… saying it’s abandoning “non-partisan coverage” of the presidential race.
McCain’s not happy with what NBC’s Andrea Mitchell said on “Meet the Press” yesterday, […]

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Ohio is expected to be a battleground state, as it was in 2004, above, when President Bush carried the majority of counties but only won by 100,000 votes.

(CNN) — John McCain will hold a large rally in Ohio and possibly two other battleground states August 29 — the day after Barack Obama formally accepts the […]

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Pakistan poses a policy headache for the White House - whoever wins the US presidential elections in November, writes Kevin Connolly.

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John McCain told fellow veterans on Monday that his Democratic rival Barack Obama tried to legislate failure in Iraq and has refused to admit he erred when opposing the military increase there last year.

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Is there any human being on the planet more committed to his seriousness than Bob Barr? The Washington Post reports on the onetime Republican congressman who is now the libertarian presidential candidate.

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