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Senior Correspondent Margaret Warner talks with political pollsters Linda Divall, who conducts polls for the Bush-Cheney campaign, and Geoff Garin, who conducts polls for the Democratic National Committee, about John Kerry's choice of John Edwards as his running mate.

Essayist Richard Rodriguez argues that some American politicians and religious leaders have successfully shortened the separation between the political assembly and the pulpit and allowed America to see itself as the Judeo-Christian nation against which Osama bin Laden said he…

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts named North Carolina Sen. John Edwards as his vice presidential running mate. Kwame Holman reports on the announcement. Margaret Warner follows up in a discussion of Edwards' experience with two reporters from…

Several U.S. lawmakers who traveled to the Darfur region of Sudan with Secretary of State Colin Powell last week called on the government of Sudan to do more to end the "ethnic cleansing" which has killed at least 10,000. Ray…