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document.write('<p class="rss_title"><a class="rss_title" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1102&ft=1&f=1102" target="_blank">NPR Topics: Election 2008</a><br /><span class="rss_item">In-depth coverage of the 2008 presidential election, Democratic and Republican candidates, and primary elections and caucuses. Listen to audio and video reports from the campaign trail. Interactive features include a primary calendar and an interactive election map.</span></p>');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99777150&ft=1&f=1102"  target="_blank">Bettye LaVette\'s Journey To The National Stage</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on January 23, 2009 05:46:00 pm</span>');
document.write('<br />If you\'ve never heard of Bettye LaVette, the soul singer who belted out \"A Change Is Gonna Come\" with Jon Bon Jovi at the Inauguration Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on Jan 18., you may be wondering why.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99794177&ft=1&f=1102"  target="_blank">Analyzing The Text Of Obama\'s Inaugural Address</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on January 23, 2009 09:10:00 am</span>');
document.write('<br />Although many Americans heard Barack Obama\'s inauguration speech, they probably weren\'t listening for plyptotons and catachresis &mdash; but Geoff Nunberg was.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99474984&ft=1&f=1102"  target="_blank">Natasha Trethewey: If My Mom Could See Us Now</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on January 20, 2009 03:24:00 pm</span>');
document.write('<br />Natasha Trethewey won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for her book <em>Native Guard</em>.  Her parents had an interracial marriage while it was still illegal in Mississippi, and Tretheway\'s poetry often draws on her childhood as a biracial child in the south.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99473678&ft=1&f=1102"  target="_blank">Eric Foner On Post-Civil War Disappointments</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on January 20, 2009 03:01:00 pm</span>');
document.write('<br />Eric Foner, author of <em>Our Lincoln</em>, talks about the era following the Civil War in which former slaves were promised equal rights and citizenship. Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University.  ');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99466584&ft=1&f=1102"  target="_blank">Spreading The Hope: Street Artist Shepard Fairey</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on January 20, 2009 01:05:00 pm</span>');
document.write('<br />Street artist Shepard Fairey created the iconic red, white and blue Obama illustration that became the unofficial poster of the campaign. Although his campaign poster never became official, Fairey has been commissioned to design the official poster for the inauguration.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99590481&ft=1&f=1102"  target="_blank">Transcript: Barack Obama\'s Inaugural Address</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on January 20, 2009 12:21:00 am</span>');
document.write('<br />\"Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real.  They are serious and they are many.  They will not be met easily or in a short span of time.  But know this, America &mdash; they will be met,\" President Barack Obama said in his inaugural address.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99097088&ft=1&f=1102"  target="_blank">Chuck Todd Examines \'How Barack Obama Won\'</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on January 08, 2009 12:00:00 pm</span>');
document.write('<br />NBC\'s newly appointed chief White House correspondent talks with Dave Davies about his new book, <em>How Barack Obama Won: A State-by-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election.</em>');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96663810&ft=1&f=1102"  target="_blank">Rep. Clyburn Says He Knew Obama Would Win</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on November 05, 2008 09:00:00 am</span>');
document.write('<br />The votes are counted and Sen. Barack Obama will be the new resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But what does his win mean for the country and for black leadership, in specific? For more, Farai Chideya turns to one of the highest-ranking African Americans in the government, House Majority Whip James Clyburn, who represents South Carolina\'s 6th District.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95450140&ft=1&f=1102"  target="_blank">Political Rewind: NPR\'s Best Election-Related Stories</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on December 18, 2008 02:52:00 pm</span>');
document.write('<br />\"Political Rewind\" is National Editor Muthoni Muturi\'s biweekly take on NPR\'s best election-related stories from the campaign trail and around the country.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97516493&ft=1&f=1102"  target="_blank">Political Junkie: Obama Selects His Team</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on November 26, 2008 10:57:00 am</span>');
document.write('<br />In this week\'s edition of the <em>Political Junkie</em>, Matt Bai, writer for <em>The New York Times Magazine</em>, gives a rundown of this week\'s news in politics.  Also: Lanny Davis, former special counsel to President Bill Clinton, talks about President-elect Barack Obama\'s cabinet and White House picks.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97260156&ft=1&f=1102"  target="_blank">Obama Eyes Napolitano For Homeland Security</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on November 20, 2008 01:00:00 pm</span>');
document.write('<br />President-elect Barack Obama is considering Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano as head of the Department of Homeland Security. Kent Alexander, who went to law school and served as U.S. attorney with Napolitano,  talks about the her qualifications.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96956854&ft=1&f=1102"  target="_blank">Dean Explains The Democrats\' \'50-State Strategy\'</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on November 13, 2008 12:29:00 pm</span>');
document.write('<br />Howard Dean, former presidential candidate and chairman of the Democratic National Committee, implemented the \"50-State Strategy\" to help the Democrats win big in 2008 &mdash; and it appears to have worked.  This campaign approach doesn\'t write states off as \"unwinnable.\"');
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