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  <item>   <title>Lesson Plan: Take the 7 Hat Challenge</title>
   <link>http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3751168</link>
   <description>Overview: In this exciting online game, students explore the seven "hats" worn by the U.S. President: Chief Executive, Commander in Chief, Head of State, Director of Foreign Policy, Political Party Leader, Guardian of the Economy, and Legislative Leader.</description>
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  <item>   <title>Election 2008: Time to Vote!</title>
   <link>http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3750671</link>
   <description>Two million people have already voted in Georgia. Another 3 million are expected at the polls on Tuesday. It';s the biggest turnout ever for a presidential election, and voting officials across the nation are bracing for trouble.</description>
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  <item>   <title>Election Day Lesson Plan</title>
   <link>http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3750657</link>
   <description>Students will be able to follow Election Day results as they come in on the night of Election Day. They will learn about the electoral college.</description>
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  <item>   <title>Election 2008: Election Day Countdown</title>
   <link>http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3750644</link>
   <description>Election Day is finally here. Millions of Americans will head to the polls on Tuesday to choose the next President of the United States as well their Representatives and other government officials.</description>
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  <item>   <title>Election 2008: Jill Biden Gets Out the Vote</title>
   <link>http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3750634</link>
   <description>In the final push to Election Day, Jill Biden, wife of Democratic vice-presidential nominee, Joe Biden, took a break from her teaching duties to hit the campaign trail full time. (Biden is a professor of education at a community college in Delaware.)</description>
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  <item>   <title>Election 2008: Votes From Space!</title>
   <link>http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3750627</link>
   <description>Astronauts Greg Chamitoff and Mike Fincke make their home onboard the International Space Station, and the trip to their local polling stations in Texas is a little far. But voting is too important to miss out on, even if you';re busy orbiting the earth.</description>
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  <item>   <title>Election 2008: McCain Talks VP</title>
   <link>http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3750617</link>
   <description>New Mexico is an important state in the upcoming presidential election. Republican presidential candidate John McCain Senator McCain held a town-hall meeting on July 15 in Albuquerque, where he talked the all-important choice for Vice President.</description>
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  <item>   <title>Election 2008: Early Voting Begins</title>
   <link>http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3750545</link>
   <description>The last two presidential elections frustrated voters because of hours-long waits and technical hang-ups that impeded voting. Early voting is aimed at reducing some of that stress, especially important this year since officials are expecting a record turnout.</description>
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  <item>   <title>Final Debate Tonight</title>
   <link>http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3750504</link>
   <description>There are less than three weeks to go until Election Day, November 4. The stakes are high for Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama as they face off at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, from 9 pm to 10:30 pm Eastern Time.</description>
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  <item>   <title>Election 2008: Republicans on Iowa Floods</title>
   <link>http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3750482</link>
   <description>It felt like fall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as hundreds of people packed into an airport hanger on September 17 to hear Republican presidential candidate John McCain. There were so many people that I could hardly breathe, as everyone waited for the Senator from Arizonaâ€™s quick campaign stop. We listened to live music by Chris Miller to pass the time.</description>
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