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Election Central Saturday Roundup

08.09.08 -- 12:50PM

By Eric Kleefeld

The Obama campaign airs a new TV ad in Nevada, blasting John McCain for favoring the Yucca Mountain repository while not wanting any nuclear waste in his own home state. That and other political news in today's Election Central Saturday Roundup.

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