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- John McCain GOP 681,846 votes 56.8%
- Barack Obama DEM 497,749 votes 41.5%
- Ralph Nader IND 10,196 votes 0.8%
- Bob Barr LIB 6,483 votes 0.5%
- Chuck Baldwin REF 4,002 votes 0.3%
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- Bill Self meets with President in Osawatomie
- KU hoops coach learns that Barack Obama is ‘huge basketball fan’
- 04:12 p.m., December 6, 2011 Updated 02:44 a.m.
- Kansas University basketball coach Bill Self met with President Barack Obama at a meet-and-greet session before the President’s speech on Tuesday at Osawatomie High School.
- New Hillary Clinton style challenges notions about shorter hair for older women
- August 29, 2010
- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton serves as further proof that women do not have to kowtow to expectations, rules of thumb or other quietly bullying cultural assumptions. She is a role model for women who are past the ingenue phase of their lives. She is making a fashion statement.
- Obama’s 1st pitch to mark 100-year ritual
- April 3, 2010
- One hundred years ago this month, a rotund right-hander, President William Howard Taft, started a baseball tradition by throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at the Washington season opener. On Monday, the Nationals turn to a svelte southpaw, President Barack Obama, to make his Nationals Park debut.
- Hillary Clinton: I’m secretary of state, not my husband
- August 11, 2009
- Hillary Clinton has a message for the world: It’s not all about Bill.
- McCain presses Sebelius on whether she’d support tax credit for insurance
- March 31, 2009
- Republican Sen. John McCain is asking President Barack Obama’s nominee for Health and Human Services secretary if she would support giving Americans a $5,000 tax credit for health insurance — the same plan he offered during his failed presidential bid.
- Clinton off to Indonesia in next leg of Asia trip
- February 18, 2009
- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is hoping to revitalize U.S. economic and development ties with Southeast Asia as she visits Indonesia on the next leg of her first overseas trip as America’s top diplomat. In Jakarta today and Thursday, Clinton intends to announce plans to step up U.S. engagement with a region that often felt slighted by the Bush administration.
- Hundreds gather at Brown v. Board site to take in Obama’s inauguration
- January 21, 2009
- Several hundred people gathered at the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka to watch on television in the refurbished elementary school auditorium the inauguration.
- Kansas bank honors McCain as latest loser
- January 21, 2009
- As Barack Obama became president, the man he defeated in November was honored with a different kind of ceremony in northwest Kansas.
- Obama has young — and unlikely — fan in Lawrence
- January 20, 2009
- There was a struggle over the TV remote at the Cornum household Tuesday.
- Sebelius takes in inauguration
- January 20, 2009
- Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, on some short lists as Obama’s running mate or a member of his cabinet, was in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday — not to be sworn in, but as an observer. Sebelius and other governors from around the nation had a prime spot to view the swearing-in ceremony.
- Local students spend day learning about inauguration
- January 20, 2009
- Students at New York School on Tuesday tuned in to television coverage of Barack Obama’s inauguration as the nation’s 44th president.
- Lawrence firefighter salutes Obama while at work at South Pole
- January 20, 2009
- A Lawrence man working as a firefighter at the South Pole had to wait until Tuesday night to view a video recording of President Barack Obama’s inauguration.
- Regents hear that higher education could benefit from President Obama’s economic recovery bill
- January 20, 2009
- Reginald Robinson, president and chief executive officer of the Kansas Board of Regents, said higher education is part of the proposed $825 billion recovery bill that will be worked on by Congress and Obama.
- Democratic Sens. Byrd, Kennedy leave Obama luncheon early; Kennedy said to be ill
- 01:59 p.m., January 20, 2009 Updated 04:42 p.m.
- Sens. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., and Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., have been taken from an inauguration luncheon for President Barack Obama.
- Massive Internet traffic slows KU Hospital’s electronic record system
- 01:21 p.m., January 20, 2009 Updated 04:23 p.m.
- The inauguration of President Barack Obama was shown live on the Internet, which caused a glitch at the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kan.
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