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Morning Call: Cell phones to allow instant poll on presidential debate

David Spett — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:00:46 +0000

Among the millions of Americans watching Friday’s first presidential debate will be 2,000 with cell phone or computer mouse in hand.

Those viewers are part of a new system that embraces text messages and Web questions as a way of polling voters on the fly. Traditional polls are conducted by telephone interviews.

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Morning Call: Biden: McCain is no maverick

David Spett — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:00:52 +0000

MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP, Delaware County | Joe Biden came out swinging here Tuesday, blasting Republican presidential nominee John McCain for being “profoundly out of touch” with a middle class increasingly under siege.

The Democratic vice presidential nominee accused McCain of abandoning his maverick streak in favor of parroting the Bush administration line on issues ranging from the economy to health care and the Iraq war.

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Morning Call: Feds put up roadblock to I-80 tolls

David Spett — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:00:20 +0000

HARRISBURG – Federal highway regulators on Thursday shot down Pennsylvania‘s application to turn Interstate 80 into a toll road, dealing a serious blow to the state’s efforts to raise billions of dollars for badly needed highway repairs and cash-strapped mass transit agencies.

After months of review, officials at the Federal Highway Administration rejected the state’s application to convert the 310-mile highway into a toll road because it doesn’t meet the technical requirements of a federal pilot program authorizing such tolls.

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Morning Call: McCain, Palin say they’re the ‘team of mavericks’

David Spett — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:00:05 +0000

LANCASTER | Seventy-five hundred people crammed into a gymnasium on the campus of Franklin & Marshall College today to get an up-close look at Palin and GOP presidential nominee John McCain.

The speeches, first from Palin and then McCain, were similar to others the duo has given in the week since the Republican convention.

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(Photo courtesy Don Fisher/Morning Call)