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In Wake County, European election observers critique the processnew

Election observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe say they saw a process that lived up to America's voting laws, but they had harsher criticisms for the impact of outside spending and our two-party system.
What's fueling Obama's full-court press: Hope turns to fearnew

If the Obama campaign can turn out people who don't regularly make it to the polls, it may have discovered a strategy to rival the big money of Romney's Super PACs and television advertising.