Narrow swing counties may decide 2012 race
AP analysis identifies 106 counties Bush carried in 2004 and Obama won in 2008 across nine key states that could decide the election. In 2008 these counties produced 6.2 million votes, less than 5 percent of total presidential ballots, with no single reason for their shifts.
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Leesburg
Colorado
Florida
Iowa
Nevada
New Hampshire
North Carolina
Ohio
Virginia
Wisconsin
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Associated Press
Iowa counties swing between presidents in recent elections
Voters in Adams Allamakee Audubon Bremer Carroll Cedar Crawford Delaware Emmett Franklin Greene Hamilton Hardin Iowa Kossuth Louisa Marshall Palo Alto Union Warren Winnebago backed Bush in 2004 and Obama in 2008 and may shape the outcome again this year as outlined by the Associated Press.
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George W Bush
Barack Obama
Iowa
Adams
Allamakee Audubon
Bremer
Carroll
Cedar
Crawford
Delaware
Emmett
Franklin
Greene
Hamilton
Hardin
Kossuth
Louisa
Marshall
Palo Alto
Union
Warren
Winnebago
Funeral of Wissam al Hassan Sparks Beirut Protests
In Beirut a funeral for Brig. Gen Wissam al Hassan turned chaotic as soldiers used tear gas on protesters seeking the government palace. The crowd chanted about Sunni anger while clashes erupted and guards fired into the air. Al Hassan led an inquiry implicating Syria and Hezbollah in Hariri’s 2005 assassination.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Wissam al-Hassan
Damascus
Al-Hassan
Syria
Zbollah
Rafik Hariri
Hariri
Central Martyrs Square
Anna
Majd
Mazen
Laurent Fabius
Assad
Fabius
Europe-1 Radio
Jordan foils al Qaeda linked plot in shopping malls
Jordanian authorities arrested 11 Jordanian militants tied to al Qaeda suspects who planned attacks on shopping malls and Western diplomatic missions. The group surveyed targets since June and planned suicide attacks with explosive belts and rockets from Syria, officials said.
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Amman
Jordan
al-Qaida
United States
Israel
Middle East
Syria
Iraq
Palestinian Territories
Sameeh Maaytah
Cial
Abed Shehadeh al-Tahawi
Associated Press
Legacy Electronics inventor Ovshinsky dies at 89
Stanford Ovshinsky, self taught innovator who created nickel metal hydride batteries and flexible thin film solar cells, died of prostate cancer at his Bloomfield Hills home. Born in 1922, he spurred advances across energy, information and automotive tech and challenged conventional semiconductors.
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Stanford Ovshinsky
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Ovon
Ovshinsky
Bloomfield Hills
Mich
Harvey
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