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It’s been a good week for Barack Obama. Along with polls trending in his favor, there were big wins for his favorite team, the Chicago White Sox, that got the club into the baseball playoffs. The team's clinching victory meant Obama won a bet with one of his foreign policy advisors, Dennis McDonough, a fan of the team the ChiSox defeated, the Minnesota Twins.

As loyal Ticket readers know, and as all you newcomers will quickly discover, from time to time here we publish a lengthy statement, speech or interview in its entirety to allow readers the full context of the political person's remarks.

Several weeks ago, the Ticket reported on what the candidates drive. Barack Obama, as you may recall, rolls around in a 2008 Ford Escape hybrid when he's not being ferried by the Secret Service. And John McCain likes to cruise in a 2004 Cadillac CTS, although he too is now driven everywhere by the Secret Service.

Elizabeth Edwards says she is still confronting the reality of last month's public disclosure of her husband's affair with a campaign worker two years ago. "It's not a process that you get through," Edwards says during a touching exclusive interview with Patricia Anstett of the Detroit Free Press.

Everything the McCain camp says is a lie Including the stuff Cindy McCain says: Cindy McCain has repeatedly referred to herself as an “only child.” This week came news that she actually has two half sisters, although apparently she had very little contact with them.

Sarah and Todd Palin's decision to complete her recent pregnancy, despite advance notice that their baby Trig had Down syndrome, is hailed by many in the pro-life movement as walking the walk as well as talking the talk.

Well, Gov. Sarah Palin is back home in Alaska tonight for the first time since officially becoming a candidate for vice president. Some 3,000 supporters showed up to welcome her in Fairbanks despite sub-zero temperatures and a wind-driven blizzard of snow. Just kidding about the temperature and snow.

Heretofore little-known Rep. Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia was born in 1950 in Atlanta and was raised in one of its surrounding communities. Which means the Republican grew up at a time when the racial divide in the South was stark, a time when Jim Crow laws helped enforce a segregationist credo

ST. PAUL -- Levi Johnston, the boyfriend of the pregnant 17-year-old Bristol Palin, plans to join the family at the Republican Party's nomination here of mom and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for vice president. The 18-year-old father-, husband- and celebrity-to-be left Alaska this morning to join the Palin family at the convention, according to his mother.

First Lady Laura Bush and her would-be successor, Cindy McCain, visited the Louisiana delegation for breakfast this morning, bringing a message of comfort to some who are anxiously waiting to see what happens after Hurricane Gustav hits their state.