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Just one stop this weekend, officials said, was bound to be on Obama's calendar: a home-town visit to Chicago, to campaign for the candidate seeking the Senate seat the president once held.
Obama's calculated visits to battleground turf Anne E. Kornblut 2010
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They're using Congress's August recess to heckle Democratic representatives when they meet with their constituents, stage erszatz local anti-universal health rallies, and fill home-town media with carefully-crafted, market-tested messages demonizing healthcare reform.
Heads up staffers, tips to avoid a Health Care "Town Hell" (Blog for Democracy) 2009
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We also talked about Joe Hill, a union organizer killed in my home-town.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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He was known as “Jimmy” in his home-town, but was professionally called “Catfish,” a nickname invented by Charlie Finley, the owner of the Kansas City, then Oakland, Athletics, for whom he pitched between 1965 to 1974.
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These 87 new members - who otherwise might have become foot soldiers for party bosses, or jittery pawns of their home-town tea party groups - have instead coalesced into a bloc with its own ideas and a headstrong sense of its muscle.
With government shutdown looming, freshmen are the wild cards 2011
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I had learned how to do this from the Mormon contingent in my home-town.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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I had learned how to do this from the Mormon contingent in my home-town.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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Argentina has a new home-town hero in Alejandro Patronelli, who won the quad race despite a broken hand.
Dakar Rally Fuels Cheers And Jeers Across South America Shane Romig 2011
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We also talked about Joe Hill, a union organizer killed in my home-town.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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These 87 new members - who otherwise might have become foot soldiers for party bosses, or jittery pawns of their home-town tea party groups - have instead coalesced into a bloc with its own ideas and a headstrong sense of its muscle.
With government shutdown looming, freshmen are the wild cards 2011
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