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This story was written by Shawn Gude, The Daily IowanCEDAR FALLS - Despite Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama s comfortable lead in Iowa polls, Republican rival John McCain isn t giving up on the state.        South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a close friend of McCain and prominent surrogate, made that clear at a Sunday afternoon rally in Cedar Falls.                               stanley cup                    Iowa is ground zero of this election,  the Republican senator said.  We need you.         McCain spokeswoman Wendy Riemann echoed Graham, pointing to internal campaign polling showing a  very close race.                  We re obviously competitive here,  Riemann said after  vaso stanley the event, noting the party s campaign strategy to attract undecided voters and those who previously favored other candidates, namely Hillary Rodham Clinton.  These seven [electoral] votes count.         Despite similar polls nationwide, McCain said he wouldn t capitulate and criticized Obama for preemptively  measuring the drapes.        stanley cups uk    I guess I m kind of old-fashioned about these things,  McCain said.  I prefer to let the voters weigh in before presuming.         He spoke to an enthusiastic  drill baby, drill  crowd of approximately 2,000 at the University of Northern Iowa, rhetorically ripping Obama on taxes, national defense, and energy policy.                     We talk about nuclear power -  it has to be safe environmentally, blah, blah, blah,    McCain said mocking Obama, the crowd erupti

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Washington mdash; More than 68,000 illegally trafficked firearms in the U.S. came through unlicensed dealers who aren t required to perform background checks over a five-year period, according to new data released Thursday by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives.That represents 54% of the illegally trafficked firearms in the U.S. between 2017 and 20 stanley thermos mug 21, Justice Department officials said. The guns stanley cup  were used in 368 shooting cases, which are harder to investigate because unlicensed dealers aren t required to keep records of their sales that could enable federal agents to trace the weapon back to the original buyer, said ATF Director Steve Dettelbach.  The report ordered by Attorney General Merrick Garland is the first in-depth analysis of firearm trafficking investigations in more than 20 years. It examined more than 9,700 closed ATF firearm trafficking investigations that began between 2017 and 2021. Fi stanley cup rearms trafficking is when guns are purposely moved into the illegal market for a criminal purpose or possession.                                          The second-highest share of firearm-trafficking cases investigated by ATF was straw purchases, when someone buys a gun for a person who can t get it legally themselves.  The report also shows that the recipients of trafficked firearms were people who had previously been convicted of a felony in almost 60 percent of the cases in which investigators were able to identify the background of the recipient. Furtherm Ptrl 2020 hopeful Jay Inslee urges end to filibuster, electoral college:  It s time for us to have democracy again
This story was written by Shawn Gude, The Daily IowanCEDAR FALLS - Despite Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama s comfortable lead in Iowa polls, Republican rival John McCain isn t giving up on the state.        South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a close friend of McCain and prominent surrogate, made that clear at a Sunday afternoon rally in Cedar Falls.                               stanley cup                    Iowa is ground zero of this election,  the Republican senator said.  We need you.         McCain spokeswoman Wendy Riemann echoed Graham, pointing to internal campaign polling showing a  very close race.                  We re obviously competitive here,  Riemann said after  vaso stanley the event, noting the party s campaign strategy to attract undecided voters and those who previously favored other candidates, namely Hillary Rodham Clinton.  These seven [electoral] votes count.         Despite similar polls nationwide, McCain said he wouldn t capitulate and criticized Obama for preemptively  measuring the drapes.        stanley cups uk    I guess I m kind of old-fashioned about these things,  McCain said.  I prefer to let the voters weigh in before presuming.         He spoke to an enthusiastic  drill baby, drill  crowd of approximately 2,000 at the University of Northern Iowa, rhetorically ripping Obama on taxes, national defense, and energy policy.                     We talk about nuclear power -  it has to be safe environmentally, blah, blah, blah,    McCain said mocking Obama, the crowd erupti