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The Census Bureau said 45.7 million people - 15.3 percent of the population - were uninsured in 2007. But according to an advisor of Sen. John McCain who helped craft the Republican candidate's health care policy, those numbers are misleading.

In fact, says John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, the number of uninsured Americans is basically zero, and we wouldn't have this "problem" of lack of insurance in the United States if the Census Bureau simply stopped labeling people without policies as "uninsured."

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Anti-Obama and right-wing bloggers have been throwing more and more criticism against the wall to see what sticks. One of their more fanciful charges is that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, born in Hawaii in 1961, is not a U.S. citizen and therefore cannot be elected president.

In the face of Internet insinuations that the Illinois Senator was actually born somewhere outside the U.S. and therefore does not fall within Article II of the Constitution ("A natural born Citizen") and the 14th Amendment, Barack Obama's campaign has posted a copy of his birth certificate on its rumor-discrediting Web site, www.fightthesmears.com. But that still isn’t good enough for some skeptics.

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Anti-Obama books and bloggers have been throwing anything and everything against the wall to see what if anything will stick. One of their latest charges is that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee is not even a U.S.-born citizen.

The Honolulu Advertiser reported earlier this week that the Department of Health in Hawaii, where Barack Obama was born in 1961, has been flooded with requests for the Illinois Senator's birth certificate.

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Democratic candidate Barack Obama's campaign has accepted a proposal by the Commission on Presidential Debates for three debates with Republican candidate John McCain and one between their vice presidential candidates.

In a letter sent Saturday to the commission, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said Congressman Rahm Emanuel of Illinois will be their representative in further discussions about the debates.

Plouffe signed off on debates for September and October.

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Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., issued a statement in support of the House's update of FISA, but said he would try to strip a provision granting immunity to telecommunication companies when the bill comes to a vote in the Senate next week.

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Following Sen. Hillary Clinton's statement that presidential nominating contests have historically lasted late into the calendar year, citing the June 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy as one example, an observer said the comment probably dooms any chance that she would be picked for the number two position by frontrunner Sen. Barack Obama.

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