Bush, Blair see hope for Palestinian state
Saturday, November 13, 2004
AP's TERENCE HUNT - - Oklahoman
| As Yasser Arafat was buried, President Bush raised hopes Friday for a Middle East peace and the creation of an independent Palestinian state within four years, suggesting decades of distrust and frustration could be altered by the change of Palestinian leadership.
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High court to decide death row issue
Monday, November 8, 2004 Carrie Coppernoll - - Oklahoman
| The U.S. Supreme Court is deciding whether a Missouri man should die for crimes committed at age 17, and the ruling could affect nearly 70 death row inmates across the country.
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President Bush relaxes at Camp David
Friday, November 5, 2004
AP's PETE YOST - - Oklahoman
| Relaxing at Camp David, President Bush received congratulatory phone calls from German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and other foreign leaders Friday even as Germany's defense minister renewed his government's vow not to send troops to Iraq.
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Fund raising begins anew for inauguration
Thursday, November 4, 2004
AP's SHARON THEIMER - - Oklahoman
| The aggressive fund raising that produced record spending in the 2004 presidential race won't stop with the election. President Bush's finance team will now look to raise millions from businesses and other big donors to finance inauguration festivities.
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Carson concedes Senate race to Coburn
Wednesday, November 3, 2004 Chris Casteel - - Oklahoman
| Tom Coburn, the last major candidate to enter the wide-open U.S. Senate race in Oklahoma this year, was the last man standing Tuesday, claiming a Republican victory that helped his party maintain control of the chamber he'll soon join.
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Moral values propel Bush to re-election
Wednesday, November 3, 2004
AP's Will Lester - - Oklahoman
| President Bush combined his reputation for strong leadership in a time of war with a campaign about traditional values to win re-election despite voters' doubts about his job performance and policies.
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Edwards: 'Tomorrow, hope will arrive'
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
AP's LIZ SIDOTI - - Oklahoman
| Dashing through battleground states Monday, Sen. John Edwards implored Democrats to vote and predicted victory for presidential candidate John Kerry, saying: "Tomorrow, hope will arrive."
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AP: White House electoral race nearly tied
Saturday, October 30, 2004
AP's RON FOURNIER - - Oklahoman
| President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are virtually tied in the Electoral College count, fighting over eight to 10 states so close and unpredictable that anything is possible Tuesday night.
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Candidates meet in final debate
Thursday, October 28, 2004 Carmel Perez Snyder - - Oklahoman
| U.S. Senate candidates Tom Coburn and Brad Carson sat shoulder to shoulder and had a conversation instead of a debate Wednesday night.
But the event, aired live from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater by KWTV NEWS 9 and KOTV, was still a lively discussion.
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Poll watchers to crowd voting venues
Thursday, October 28, 2004
AP's RACHEL KONRAD - - Oklahoman
| Tens of thousands of poll monitors, challengers, lawyers and other activist observers are expected to clog voting precincts in battleground states Tuesday in what will probably be the most scrutinized U.S. election in at least 40 years.
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Marriage stirs talk on rights
Wednesday, October 27, 2004 Judy Gibbs Robinson - - Oklahoman
| Just like suicide, same-sex marriage is an act so degrading it should never be legalized, an Arizona religious freedom expert said Tuesday.
Just like former laws against interracial marriage, denying homosexuals the right to marry is discrimination, a constitutional law expert countered.
Those arguments were made during a lunch-hour debate on same-sex marriage at the University of Oklahoma Law Center.
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Cheney calls Kerry's hunt a cover-up
Thursday, October 21, 2004
AP's JOHN SEEWER - - Oklahoman
| Vice President Dick Cheney poked fun at Sen. John Kerry's goose hunting Thursday, arguing that the image of the gun-toting, camouflaged Democrat was an "October disguise" that masked his voting record against gun rights.
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Carson, Coburn given boxing gloves but hold punches in debate
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
AP's Clayton Bellamy - - Oklahoman
| U.S. Senate candidates Brad Carson and Tom Coburn were given boxing gloves, but there would be no fight.
Carson and Coburn avoided personal attacks Wednesday in a debate that ran counter to the otherwise contentious campaign 13 days before the election.
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Edwards emerges as typical VP candidate
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
AP's LIZ SIDOTI - - Oklahoman
| Smooth, smiling John Edwards is sounding more like the traditional vice presidential candidate, calling President Bush a con artist and Vice President Dick Cheney a hypocrite, and all but labeling both Republicans liars.
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Gore: Bush deceived public on Iraq
Monday, October 18, 2004
AP's Sam Hananel - - Oklahoman
| Al Gore on Monday accused President Bush of intentionally deceiving the public about the reasons for invading Iraq and said he is so ideologically driven that he refuses to admit - or even learn from - his mistakes.
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Challenger to Istook touts grass-roots effort
Monday, October 18, 2004 Ryan McNeill - - Oklahoman
| Democrat Bert Smith doesn't mind talking about his chances in the 5th Congressional District.
"It's not anywhere close to being financially competitive," Smith, 57, said. "But we have a grass-roots campaign plan we're executing."
In campaign talk, that often means not having a lot of money. Until now, Smith hadn't raised enough money to require a report to the Federal Election Commission. Smith recently filled out his first quarterly report.
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Senate candidates stay serious on campaign trail
Sunday, October 17, 2004 Chris Casteel - - Oklahoman
| "I proved in Altus that I am not very smooth," Tom Coburn said last week.
Coburn was back in Altus to raise money for his U.S. Senate campaign, returning to the scene of the "craphead" comment, and he was trying a little self-deprecating humor.
Humor is in somewhat short supply in the race to succeed retiring U.S. Sen. Don Nickles. There's some biting sarcasm, some sneering and mocking.
But Coburn, a Muskogee Republican, and Democratic U.S. Rep. Brad Carson were mostly ultra-serious in campaign appearances last week.
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Franks says U.S. should have hired Iraqis
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
AP's BILL KACZOR - - Oklahoman
| The United States should have quickly reformed the Iraqi army after most of its soldiers walked off the battlefield and got them "working for us," retired Gen. Tommy Franks said Tuesday.
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E-voting research delayed, experts say
Sunday, October 10, 2004
AP's Kathy Barks Hoffman and RACHEL KONRAD - - Oklahoman
| After nearly 50,000 Michigan Democrats cast ballots over the Internet in February, academics eagerly sought election data that would help them determine what types of people voted online. But scholars around the country complain that they haven't been able to get statistics from the Feb. 7 caucus.
The delay could stall important research, they say, on voting technologies and on boosting participation in U.S. elections - for example, by studying whether Internet voting could help such historically disenfranchised groups as overseas military personnel and citizens who don't speak English well.
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Senate hopefuls continue push for seat
Saturday, October 9, 2004 Chris Casteel - - Oklahoman
| After weeks of playing defense and being outspent, Republican Senate candidate Tom Coburn has sharpened his campaign message and said he is gaining momentum in a race that could determine which party controls the U.S. Senate.
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DeLay goes on offensive in ethics woes
Friday, October 8, 2004
AP's Suzanne Gamboa - - Oklahoman
| House Majority Leader Tom DeLay went on the offensive after being chastised twice in the past week by the House ethics committee, accusing his accusers of libel and the bipartisan panel that judged him of mistreating him.
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Coburn pulls closer to Carson in poll
Wednesday, October 6, 2004 Michael Baker - - Oklahoman
| A heated and pivotal Oklahoma election race for the U.S. Senate has tightened with Republican Tom Coburn drawing closer to U.S. Rep. Brad Carson, according to a KWTV NEWS 9 poll.
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Debate gives candidates chance to spar
Tuesday, October 5, 2004 Carmel Perez Snyder - - Oklahoman
| The candidates came out swinging in the one-hour debate aired by KOCO-TV 5 and sponsored by the AARP. More than 500 people crowded into Constitution Hall at the University of Central Oklahoma. Many were turned away at the door before the debate.
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Activists urge minorities to vote
Sunday, October 3, 2004 Judy Gibbs Robinson - - Oklahoman
| Rosita Graves and Patricia Milton, who call themselves NAACP foot soldiers, talk to Joey Rodman during a voter-registration drive. Rodman, who already is registered, holds Annika, her 16-month-old daughter. When Joey Rodman answered the knock at her front door one evening last week, she was expecting to find her husband without his house key.
Instead she faced two women in matching navy T-shirts and white visors with smiles on their faces, notebooks in their hands and satchels over their shoulders.
"Hi. We're with the NAACP and we're doing voter registration today," Patricia Milton said. "Are you registered to vote?"
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'God, gays, guns' issues resurface
Thursday, September 30, 2004 Chris Casteel - - Oklahoman
| God, gays and guns.
That was the line used by some to define the 1994 U.S. Senate race in Oklahoma between two sitting U.S. representatives, Jim Inhofe and Dave McCurdy.
House Republican leaders may be trying to recreate that formula this month, just a few weeks before the elections. In the past week, the House has voted on preserving the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and repealing the strict gun laws in the District of Columbia.
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Coburn promotes faith and science
Monday, September 27, 2004 Chris Casteel - - Oklahoman
| For Tom Coburn, it was an intersection of his faith and his science and his desire to apply both to public policy.
In 1999, Coburn, a physician and then an Oklahoma U.S. representative, authored a resolution in Congress stating that brain wave activity is present in a fetus 41 days after conception and a heartbeat is detectable after 24 days.
"The Supreme Court ruled they didn't know where life begins," Coburn said in an interview recently, referring to the landmark 1973 Roe vs. Wade case about abortion. "We can show that scientifically. And as science improves, we're going to be able to get that down to day one."
The resolution never came up for a vote, but Coburn said if he's elected to the U.S. Senate this year, he'll try again.
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Coburn campaign denies turmoil reports
Wednesday, September 22, 2004 Chris Casteel - - Oklahoman
| The campaign for Republican Senate candidate Tom Coburn is adding "reinforcements," but the campaign manager said he's not being replaced and the operation isn't in turmoil as state Democrats charged Tuesday.
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Poll finds Carson, Coburn nearly even
Tuesday, September 21, 2004 Michael Baker - - Oklahoman
| The election race for one of Oklahoma's U.S. Senate seats is nearly a dead heat, a KWTV NEWS9 poll released Monday shows.
With U.S. Rep. Brad Carson's advantage of 1 percentage point over Republican Tom Coburn well within the poll's margin of error, both camps are preparing for a fight that may not end until the last ballot on Nov. 2.
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No show from GOP in contest
Monday, September 20, 2004 Chris Casteel - - Oklahoman
| Already gaining ground in the U.S. Senate race in Oklahoma, Democrats have launched a full-scale attack in the pivotal state that has been met with little Republican response. With the contest entering its final six weeks, some Republicans say it's time for their party to enter the fray.
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Senate race sheds light on candidate records
Sunday, September 19, 2004 Nolan Clay - - Oklahoman
| U.S. Senate candidate Tom Coburn has been sued four times in Muskogee since 1990 -- three times over his medical treatment of pregnant women and once over a golf course investment.
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Macauley Culkin arrested for drug possession in Oklahoma
Friday, September 17, 2004 Jesse Olivarez - - Oklahoman
| Oklahoma City police arrested child film star Macaulay Culkin, 24, on a traffic stop near Interstate 44 and Kelley Friday afternoon.
Culkin was arrested and booked into the Oklahoma County jail on complaints of marijuana possession and possession of a controlled dangerous substance without a prescription, according to booking records at the jail.
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Lawsuit enters Senate campaign
Friday, September 17, 2004 Carmel Perez Snyder - - Oklahoman
| Angela Plummer admitted Thursday that Republican senate candidate Dr. Tom Coburn saved her life in 1990, but she stands by her allegations that he sterilized her without her consent.
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Campaigns trade shots on reform
Thursday, September 16, 2004 Chris Casteel - - Oklahoman
| Republican Senate candidate Tom Coburn on Wednesday accused Democratic U.S. Rep. Brad Carson of "flip-flopping" on lawsuit reform in the House this week.
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Allegations of fraud haunt Senate candidate in Oklahoma
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
AP's Clayton Bellamy - - Oklahoman
| TULSA - An old lawsuit claiming Republican Senate candidate Tom Coburn, an obstetrician, sterilized a woman without her consent and accusations that he committed Medicaid fraud have emerged as major issues in his tightly contested race against Democratic Rep. Brad Carson.
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Tuning in: Two Coburn TV spots
Sunday, September 12, 2004 Chris Casteel - - Oklahoman
| This is the fourth in a series analyzing television campaign advertisements in the U.S. Senate race between U.S. Rep. Brad Carson, D-Claremore and former U.S. Rep. Tom Coburn, R-Muskogee.
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Coburn assures farm leaders of his support for agriculture
Friday, September 10, 2004 Dawn Marks - - Oklahoman
| Tom Coburn did his best Thursday to assure Oklahoma agricultural leaders that he supports agriculture despite what he called his reputation to the contrary.
Coburn, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Don Nickles, R-Ponca City, made a campaign stop in Stillwater. Coburn faces Rep. Brad Carson, D-Claremore, and independent Sheila Bilyeu of Oak Hall in the November general election.
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Corporate sponsors ready to pay bill
Thursday, September 2, 2004 Chris Casteel - - Oklahoman
| It's expensive to be a delegate to a national political convention, especially in a city like this one.
On the up side though, delegates should never have to pay for breakfast. Depending on how popular and creative they are, any meal, drink, tour, play or other entertainment is free. There are plenty of corporate sponsors ready to pick up the tab.
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Homosexual delegate speaks out
Wednesday, September 1, 2004 Carmel Perez Snyder - - Oklahoman
| Being a delegate to the Republican National Convention is bittersweet for Oklahoman Robert Hayes.
The Aline native said Tuesday that he wants to start a chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans, an organization of gay Republicans.
"In Oklahoma, that's hard to say, and I know it's not going to be well-received," he said.
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Republicans cheer bipartisan critique of Kerry
Thursday, September 2, 2004 Chris Casteel - - Oklahoman
| A Democratic senator delivered a scathing attack on his own party's presidential nominee on Wednesday, telling Republicans gathered here for their national convention that Sen. John Kerry had been "more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure" on national security issues.
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Group seeks ruling on marriage proposal
Sunday, August 29, 2004 Ryan McNeill - - Oklahoman
| Gay marriage proponents took their fight to the courts Friday in Oklahoma, asking the state Supreme Court to strip a proposed constitutional ban from the November ballot.
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State women campaign for Bush at Capitol
Friday, August 27, 2004 Carmel Perez Snyder - - Oklahoman
| Elected officials and business owners took time out of their work day Thursday to campaign for President Bush.
Lt. Gov. Mary Fallin led the "W Stands for Women" rally at the state Capitol to commemorate Women's Equality Day.
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Coburn ahead, poll says
Friday, August 27, 2004 Chris Casteel - - Oklahoman
| Republican Tom Coburn is leading Democratic Rep. Brad Carson by nine points statewide -- and has a commanding lead in the Oklahoma City area -- in the race for U.S. Senate, according to a poll commissioned by The Oklahoman.
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Edwards revs state supporters
Thursday, August 26, 2004 Bryan Dean - - Oklahoman
| Vice presidential candidate John Edwards told a crowd of Oklahoma City Democratic supporters Wednesday that he and John Kerry want to "restore hope to people in this country."
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Sen. John Kerry accepts Democrats’ nomination
Friday, July 30, 2004 Chris Casteel - - Oklahoman
| Sen. John Kerry on Thursday accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president and told the nation he had defended the country as a young man and would do so in the White House but would “never mislead us into war.”
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Egyptians Question Powell on Mideast Reform
Thursday, July 29, 2004 NEIL MacFARQUHAR - - Oklahoman
| Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, in an unusual meeting on Wednesday with a small group of Egyptian civic group leaders and other activists, was told that American backing for political reform in the region would only truly gain momentum if Washington pushed for a fair settlement to the Israeli-Arab dispute.
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Coburn, Carson headed for Senate showdown
Tuesday, July 27, 2004 Chris Casteel - - Oklahoman
| Former Congressman Tom Coburn, whose candidacy caught fire early among Republicans in Oklahoma, headed for a general election showdown Tuesday with Democratic Congressman Brad Carson to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Don Nickles, according to unofficial returns from the state Election Board.
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Look to battle ahead, Gore urges party delegates
Tuesday, July 27, 2004 Chris Casteel - - Oklahoman
| Nearly four years after losing one of the most controversial presidential elections in American history, former Vice President Al Gore told Democratic activists here Monday that every vote counts and that Bush administration policies show presidential elections matter.
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Dems ready to flex muscles
Monday, July 26, 2004 Chris Casteel - - Oklahoman
| Democrats kick off their national convention here Monday, aiming to convince voters that their party and their presidential nominee have the strength to lead the nation during turbulent times.
Sen. John Kerry, who had to mount a major comeback drive during the primaries this year after his campaign faltered, is scheduled to be nominated here Thursday in his home state. Democratic delegates started arriving en masse this weekend for the four days of speeches from the party's and Kerry's past and present.
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Open Senate seat draws many candidates
Sunday, July 18, 2004 Chris Casteel - - Oklahoman
| Open U.S. Senate seats don't come along very often. Ten years have passed since the last vacancy in Oklahoma, which resulted in a fierce fight between two incumbent congressmen, Jim Inhofe and Dave McCurdy.
Inhofe, R-Tulsa, won that race and is now deeply involved in the one to replace retiring Sen. Don Nickles, a Ponca City Republican who has represented Oklahoma in the Senate since 1981.
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Lake Wister fish fry means time for a little politicking
Sunday, July 18, 2004 Ryan McNeill - - Oklahoman
| LAKE WISTER STATE PARK - Beneath shadows of lush, rolling eastern Oklahoma hills, politics and America's past sit at the same picnic table.
Hundreds gather each year in this county where good jobs are scarce and opportunities few, but values strong. They listen to politicians promise a better future as catfish pops in fryers nearby.
Volunteers served up 135 pounds of catfish, along with hush puppies and pie on this Saturday, a day when rain was followed by Oklahoma heat and humidity. About 500 dined while candidates stumped and tried convincing voters to make them sheriff, state lawmaker or even a member of Congress.
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Rare watch chimes in at $101,000
Friday, July 16, 2004 David Zizzo - - Oklahoman
| NORMAN - A founder of the world's largest Internet site for sales of antique watches has set a record for the highest price ever obtained for an American watch, an "engineering masterpiece."
Eric Enge, a Norman man who founded oldwatch.com with his partner, Glen Butler, said Tuesday he closed a deal this week on an extremely rare "crystal plate" Waltham pocket watch for $101,000.
"It's the first time an American-made watch broke the $100,000 mark," Enge said.
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Bush Extends Debate on Values to Children
Saturday, July 17, 2004
AP's PETE YOST - - Oklahoman
| President Bush is extending the political debate over values by citing evidence that strong families and communities are developing responsibility and character in the nation's children.
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