By Kate Miller
Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Arizona, Washington and Texas. He’s seen it all.
John West, a fellow Seattle-ite, has traveled far and wide to volunteer for Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

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The quality of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama plus disagreement with George W. Bush has propelled some gay Republicans to cross the partisan aisle in this election.
Noel Freeman, President of the Log Cabin Republicans chapter in Houston, is one of these people. And because of that he said he’ll be stepping down from his […]

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By: Philip Pirwitz, Kate Miller, Laura J. Mansfield
AUSTIN- Michelle Obama spoke at the University of Texas Obama campaign headquarters late this afternoon to kick off a night of canvasing and phone-calling before a crowd of roughly one hundred.

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By Charles Cadwallader
AUSTIN - What does a petroleum engineer, a public relations executive, a media relations officer in the National Guard, a political science student at the University of Washington, and an assistant district attorney all have in common?
They are all volunteering in Texas for Obama.

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KILLEEN, TX- “We’re a lot different from Washington State,” said John Crutchfield, president of Killeen, Texas’ Chamber of Commerce.
We met Crutchfield on a whim, after driving through this mid-size, conservative town that encompasses military base Fort Hood. After a stop at the Chamber of Commerce, his secretary lead us into his office, which featured a […]

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AUSTIN- My head was spinning. This was Texas and this is what I heard: “Dennis Kucinich isn’t liberal enough for me.” What? In Texas? A state that practically threatened to secede from the Union if President Bush lost the 2004 election, as one Austin local put it.
The words were from radio DJ Anne Preston, […]

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While waiting for actress Kate Walsh to arrive at the University of Texas Barack Obama campaign office, Max Kennedy encouraged volunteers and students to call Texas voters and ask them to vote and caucus for the Illinois Senator.
Kennedy, son of the late Sen. Bobby Kennedy, even joined in on the effort:

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By Liz Burlingame, Charles Cadwallader, Cailin Magruder and Will Mari
WACO – Over 500 people from all around Texas braved the wind, the cold and the rain to pack into the creative center at the Heart O’ Texas Fair and Coliseum for the John McCain town hall meeting.
Some of the people had the available seats while […]

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At Momo’s Club in Austin, Texas last Saturday, Gloria Steinem electrified 150 people in their mutual support of Hillary Clinton.

The men in attendance enjoyed her talk too. I spoke with almost all eight of them.

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By: Laura J. Mansfield and Kate Miller
The University of Texas Obama headquarters, located on the west side of campus, is pumped up and making things happen today for Barack Obama. Some volunteers are working up to 18-hour shifts. There are thirty five interns working in the headquarters regularly, but there are also many, many, volunteers […]

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