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					 <title>Electors Meet</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/715/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Around the country today electors will fulfill their constitutional responsibilities by casting their ballots for President of the United States. The individuals fulfilling this role were on the ballot on November 4, and were chosen by voters who cast popular votes for Senator Obama and Senator Joseph Biden.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-12-15 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Poll Workers On Election Day</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/305/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[NSnewstv.com video-journalist Jamal Spratley talks with poll workers in DC on election day.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-11-08 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>JCSU Recent Graduates on Election Night</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/290/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Lauren Scott, Angel Cunningham and Jontell Scott share their views.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-11-05 12:44:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>President Elect Addresses Supporters</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/291/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[President-elect Barack Obama addresses supporters in Chicago's Grant Park.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-11-05 01:10:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Charlotte Urban League Officials/JSCU Grads</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/292/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Dr. Patrick C. Graham and Ms Okeatta Brown of the Charlotte Urban League.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-11-05 01:01:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Our 44th President</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/293/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[On Tuesday November 4, 2008 400 years of history came full cycle as the nation elected Senator Barack Hussein Obama its 44th President and the first Black American to lead the nation. As we witnessed this momentous event our thoughts and prayers were with President-elect and his family, as they have endured much over the course of this campaign to arrive at this moment.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-11-05 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Grandmother's Faith</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/295/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Tonight, for a moment, I was back on my grandmother Dora’s porch in North Carolina listening to her share stories about my ancestors and speaking hopefully about what the future might have in store for her grandson.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-11-04 12:05:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>JCSU Alumni Reflect on Historic Election</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/288/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Dr. Maxine Moore and Mr. John Crawford reflect on the presidential election.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/288/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2008-11-04 10:45:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Obama Wins!</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/289/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[In convincing fashion, the nation has elected Barack Obama as its  first Black President.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-11-04 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Live from Charlotte!</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/282/</link>
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					 <pubDate>2008-11-03 12:01:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Election Day</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/278/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The longest presidential campaign in history is settled today as voters go to the polls to determine who will lead our nation for the next four years.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/278/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2008-11-03 12:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Make it Happen</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/279/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[It’s Election Day and we have a chance to make history. In one of the most improbable stories of our nation, today we stand poised to elect the first Black President of the United States.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-11-03 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Appointment with History</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/280/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Today, November 4, 2008, marks an appointment for the Black community that has been over 400 years in the making.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/280/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2008-11-03 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Election Day: Optimism and Worry</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/281/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Contributor Sadiq Jeru-Ahmed expresses his concern over electronic voting.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-11-03 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Sen. Obama Honored by CBCF</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/191/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Senator Barack Obama at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation black tie gala.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/191/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2008-11-02 12:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Real Path to the White House</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/277/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[As Election Day approaches and the nation appears on the brink of electing its first Black President, the dates and events it took to get to this moment are worth recalling to gain a full appreciation of the significance of what may occur on Election Day.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-11-02 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>General Powell endorses Sen. Barack Obama</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/237/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Retired Army General Colin Powell endorses Sen. Obama on NBC's Meet The Press on October 19.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-11-01 10:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>McCain and Obama on Ayers and Acorn</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/227/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Senator Obama responds to charges concerning William Ayers and ACORN during the last debate.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/227/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2008-11-01 09:45:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Battleground States</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/271/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[For either Senator Barack Obama or Senator John McCain to win on November 4, they have to secure 270 electoral votes.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-10-31 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>McCain's Fueling Hate</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/264/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[It should come as no surprise that federal agents uncovered a plot to kill Senator Barack Obama.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/264/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2008-10-28 17:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Plot to kill Obama Foiled</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/261/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) has foiled a plot by white supremacists to assassinate presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama and go on a killing spree targeting African Americans.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-10-28 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Papers Line up Behind Obama</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/257/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Scores an unlikely endorsement from a newspaper in Alaska.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/257/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2008-10-27 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>America's Final Exam</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/249/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Walter Fields warns that November 4 is the nation's final exam on race.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-10-23 12:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Catholic Bishop Warns Against Racism in Election</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/244/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[In a forthcoming October 27 article in “America: The National Catholic Weekly,” Bishop Blase Cupich warns against the presence of racism in the November 4 presidential election. Calling racism “our nation’s own specific ‘original sin’,” Bishop Cupich notes that the Catholic Church declared racism a sin in 1979 and did so “in full knowledge that racism was a plague not merely in society at large but had even invaded the church, which too often conformed to the prejudices of society in its own interior life.”]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-10-21 12:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Powell Picks Obama, Slams McCain</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/238/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Colin Powell gives a stinging rebuke of John McCain on "Meet the Press"]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-10-19 12:05:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Our Choice: OBAMA</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/233/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[America is in trouble. 

We are engaged in an unjust war in Iraq that has drained our nation financially, cost the lives of tens of thousands of our troops and Iraqi civilians, and diminished our standing in the world community. And the distraction of Iraq has allowed the perpetrator of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack to remain free to taunt us at will.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-10-19 12:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>More Endorsements for Obama</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/234/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The endorsements continue to come in for Senator Barack Obama as many of the nation’s largest daily newspapers cast their support behind the Democrat.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-10-19 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>McCain Picks Up Endorsements</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/235/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[As the presidential race draws to an end, Senator John McCain, though trailing in most polls, has picked up some key endorsements from newspapers across the country. The following is a sampling.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-10-19 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Obama Scores Major Endorsements</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/232/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Senator Barack Obama has begun to amass an impressive list of endorsements from some of the nation’s most widely read daily newspapers. This past week, in a stunning move, both The Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, two conservative leaning papers, endorsed the Democrat from Illinois]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-10-18 12:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Home Stretch</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/230/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[As the presidential campaign gallops toward the home stretch, the race between Republican candidate Senator John McCain and Democratic candidate Senator Barack Obama now hinges upon their respective get out the vote operations, and their ability to turn key voting blocs.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-10-17 12:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Obama: The Rebirth of Cool</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/231/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[There is much to be said about Senator Barack Obama and the manner in which he has ascended in national politics. It has been an incredible journey for the native Hawaiian, who with his mixed race parentage, embodies a more full representation of the American experience than any presidential candidate of the past]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-10-17 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Verbal Punches but no Contact</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/228/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[In the third and final debate of the presidential campaign it was quickly evident that Republican candidate Senator John McCain was prepared to pull out all stops to try to stop the surge of his rival, Democratic Senator Barack Obama]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-10-16 12:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Angry Old Man</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/229/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[John McCain has become a bitter and angry old man, and it shows.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-10-16 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Night to Remember</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/224/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The last and final presidential debate means we are closing in on history.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-10-15 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>McCain’s Straight Hate Express</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/217/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Make no mistake about it. John McCain’s supporters hate Senator Barack Obama and can barely contain their rage. At campaign stop after campaign stop, the McCain entourage is looking like it’s on the “Straight Hate Express,” as snarling supporters hurl invective after invective at their candidate’s opponent.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-10-12 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The One</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/212/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Walter Fields suggests Obama is gaining ground as many voters see him as "the one" to lead the nation.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-10-09 12:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Obama Fires Back in Debate</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/210/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Candidate takes on opponent in the second presidential debate.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-10-08 12:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Negative, OK. Lies, Unacceptable.</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/209/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Walter Fields argues lying has substituted for negative campaigning.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-10-07 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Dirt to fly in race for the White House</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/207/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[McCain camp signals it will go negative in final weeks of campaign.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/207/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2008-10-06 12:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Doggone it. She’s Clueless</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/200/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Walter Fields offers his take on last night's vice presidential debate.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-10-03 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Obama, McCain mix it up in first debate</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/186/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Two candidates squared off at the University of Mississippi.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/186/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2008-09-27 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Mr. McCain's Dodge</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/183/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Senator John McCain is ill-advised in his decision to skip the first debate.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-09-26 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>No More Mr. Nice Guys</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/151/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[It's time to stop giving Sarah Palin a "pass' and treating women as damsels in distress.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-09-16 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Black Turnout Key to Obama’s Chances</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/142/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[In the final analysis, Black voter turnout is the key to Democratic victory.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-09-15 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Polls Show McCain Slightly Ahead</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/126/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The latest "poll of polls" gives McCain a slight edge over Obama.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-09-10 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>McCain Accepts Nomination</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/68/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Arizona Senator John McCain stood before cheering partisans in the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul Mi]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-09-05 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Lieberman's Betrayal</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/65/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Walter Fields suggests its time for the Democratic Party to slam the door shut on Connecticut Senato]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-09-04 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Passion of Palin</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/67/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[It was a coming out party for Republican nominee Governor Sarah Palin at the GOP convention.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-09-04 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Mr. McCain's Surprise</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/41/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Republican presidential candidate shocked the political establishment with his selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/41/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2008-08-31 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>McCain Picks Woman as Running Mate</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/31/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[One day after his Democratic rival, Senator Barack Obama, accepted his party’s nomination, Arizona]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/31/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2008-08-29 01:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Just this Moment</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/10/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[NSnewstv.com Executive Editor Walter Fields shares his euphoria over the success of Barack Obama.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/10/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2008-08-29 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Obama Accepts Nomination</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/inauguration_09/updates/article/28/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[It was a night of high drama and history as over 70,000 rank and file Democrats, party delegates and]]></description>
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