look at the elizabeth dole quote again. in the original elizabeth dole quote scott brown supposedly accidentally covered over in a technical website glitch, that technical website glitch included carefully trimming out the part of the quote where elizabeth quote says, i am mary and john hanford's daughter. having scott brown proclaim that on his website would be worse. it was a technical glitch, a computer error which doesn't exactly go over because of the trimming of the quote which doesn't happen automatically. the excuse -- this excuse about the automatic transfer of this quote between websites somehow is being mocked openly in massachusetts local media. so then today scott brown decided he'd try explanation number two. quote, it was a summer intern that put together the site. at a time when the senator's office had, quote, very little time and resources to put things up. again, now, this is the kind of story that would just go away if you would just tell the truth about it. explain it, say what happened then we can move

elizabeth dole losing that race by nine points. for the governs race, it was a three-point race. the governor won. beth purdue bake became the first female governor. barack obama didn't need north carolina or indiana either. but seeing states like north carolina and states like indiana turn so unexpectedly blue was the exclamation point on the democratic victory in 2008. the democrats choosing north carolina for their 2012 convention was sort of a bold move and an emotional move. barack obama and joe biden won north carolina as i said in 2008 by the slimmest of margins. look at that. 49.7% to 49.4%. they won by less than 15,000 votes out of more than 4 million cast. the slimmest of margins. and they fought tooth and nail for every single one of those votes. this was the difference in new voters registered in the two parties. democrats outregister new voters nearly 5-1 in north carolina. nearly 5-1. north carolina. democrats' new voter registration drives were very, very effective in north carolina. on election day, itself, there were more votes cast for john mccain than there wer

he blames his staff for lifting speech made by elizabeth dole word for word. >> portions described hising. says the excerpts were used as a template and inadvertently being written. is running for reelection for the seat long held by the late edward kennedy. >>> tonight, a woman says she lost her memory after having sex. >> the new iphone debuts. thef you ride the metro, station where police are concerned. >> a newly issued flood warning for fairfax county. [ speaking french ] [ speaking french ] movie buffs! this film is tres bien, but the interest rate on your checking account is le pew. interest on your checking? earn more with new high yield free checking at capital one bank. your interest rate will be five timeses the national avera. five times the interest! and free atms at any babank. show's over folks. make your way to capital one bank. what's in your wallet? were you crying? yeah. >> you are watching abc7 news at harris, alisonon ryan, and tim brant. this is abc7 the news at 11:00, on your side. >>> metro police are increasing of armedfter a string robberies. case, a man walke

. >> it was in 2002, elizabeth dole kicking off her senatal campaign when she spoke of her upbringing words she used in her book, speaking from the heart, and was also posted on her senatorial website, but the very same language, word for word, also appeared on scott brown's website on his student resources page. a democratic political action committee combing through republican records discovered the duplication. >> this wasn't him trying to explain some of those. this was a personal values statement about who he was trying to explain that to students and if you can't as a politician, come up with your own words as to who you are and how you were raised and brought up, then i think you have problems and the voters o of massachusetts are going to see that. >> scott brown's office was quick to push back. they say young staffers were eager to get a website up and running after brown took office. in their haste, they made a big mistake -- we confirmed with the spokesperson that brown's office had permission to use her website as a template. dole's chief of staff calling this much adieu a

that was apparently lifted verbatim from the website of former north carolina republican senator elizabeth dole. the "boston globe" report the democratic group unearthed the texas included in a message from students to brown that reads in part, "i was raised to believe there are no limits, individual achievement. i was encouraged to join causes larger than myself. and to stand up for what i believe." brown's staff acknowledged the many saj was originally dole's and blames a technical error. >>> vice president biden suggest murder and rain could increase if president obama's jobs bill/stimulus package is not passed. that is because the bill includes funding for public safety officers. biden said in a stop in flint, michigan, that anyone who doubts what he called the direct correlation between crime and the number of police need to look no further than that city. finally, as you heard, republican presidential candidate john mccain often refers to himself as hazzndaus black walnut ice cream when asked if he was the flavor of the week. it might have been a flavor of the week but they tell us it was

he blamed his staff for lifting part of a 2002 speech by former north carolina senator elizabeth doled for word. the passages were about values that parents instill in their children. spokesperson says it was used as a template and inadvertently transferred without being rewritten. >>> wall street protesters in new york preparing for a possible showdown with police. the owner of the parks wants them to leave by 7:00 a.m. so crews can spend the day cleaning. some demonstrators believe this is an attempt to end protests against corporate greed. they are planning to rally at 6:00 this morning. >> that is 45 minutes from now. >>> the blackberry blackout is over abandoned by phone goes on sale. >> tanya rivero has more. >> blackberry is back. research in motion says the blackout is over and it has fixed the problem and services returning to normal for millions of customers. many customers are still angry. company officials say they will work hard to win back users trusts but did not answer questions about whether that includes a refund. the iphone 4s goes on sale today. the new voice-drive

some accusing the republican of plagiarism because parts of a 2002 speech by elizabeth dole ended up word for word on his senate web site. brown released a statement saying quote during construction of the site the content on this page was transfered with out being rewritten and it was a staff-level oversight which we regret. the democratic political action committee discovered that. >> if you can't as a politician come up with your own words with who you are and how you were raised then i think have you problems. >> doel's spokesman said brown has perm dwroigs use her template. the posting has been taken down. >> and still ahead this afternoon, research showing obesity carries a particular risk for teen-aged girl autos and my conversation with diane sawyer about a look into life in one of america's impoferished communities. the discoveries surprising and inspiring her. >> and michael finney is going to answer our questions live. >> taking a look at traffic on the skyway, you can see it's slow and go but going home in another direction not bad right now. we'll see how this will happe

the problem is, it is the same exact story word for word used by elizabeth dole when she kicked off her senatorial campaign in 2002. brown's people say no plagiarism was intended. they say young staffers were eager to get a website up and running after brown took office and they say they used dole's website as a template and some of her content was accidentally left on brown's site. >>> most parolees leave prison with orders to behave. and really, little else. so what is to keep them in from reoffending? one bay area county that's preparing for an influx of soon- to-be released inmates is the secret is a warm welcome of the len ramirez on that unique approach. >> reporter: right now santa clara county is the only major urban county in california sending its probation officers into the state prisons and county jails to assess the needs of each individual inmate who will be released into this county. the idea is to help them when they get here not reoffend. prison and county inmates often pass the time before their release like this watching tv, talking on the phone, doing pushups. but no

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might be a bigger republican plagiarism scandal than scott brown cutting and pasting part of an elizabeth dole campaign speech into his personal message on his congressional website. the idea of the three 9% taxes was used in the sim city virtual reality game, as you can see in this screen grab from the 2003 edition. joining me now is sam stein, plinth political reporter for the huffington post. sam, congratulations to the huffington post for getting to the bottom of the 9-9-9 plan, where it came from. it doesn't get stranger than this in the politics of economics in our country, to have -- >> no. >> -- to have that screen grab being relevant to the story. but also this adviser to herman cain who has no training in what it is he's talking about, what it is, and says in his mind this is very simple, this is as simple as the physics of dropping a bowling ball. >> well, first of all, if we cc'ed the pulitzer xhirkts as our reporter amanda turkel did for the simcity piece we put up. it was sort of a bizarre coincidence, and we're wondering if rich lowrie is a secret gamer. this 9-9-9 plan, more co

ladies and gentlemen, please welcome former congress jim slattery. >> senator bob dole, senator elizabeth dolejoin all of you this evening in this salute to the leader. you are the leader, senator dole, and it's great to be with you this evening and also to join in the effort to support a national monument, a national institution that happens to be located in lawrence, kansas, the dole institute of politics. thank you all for coming and supporting this this evening. at the dedication of the dole institute, senator dole said that he wanted to encourage a kind of politics and i quote, "where conviction co-exists with civility and the clash of ideas is never confused with a holy war." thanks to chancellor little and to bill lacey, the dole institute is a vibrant and active learning center today at kansas.ersity of they are fulfilling the mission, senator dole, by promoting political and civic participation in a bipartisan and balanced manner as you directed. i recently had an opportunity to attend an event at the dole institute that was honoring former president yushchenko from ukraine and it was

. -- i can tell you this, if bob dole was a leader in the senate today, there would be a lot more happening. i wanted to start with that wonderful tribute that elizabeth gave to you in the other room. we will also wonderful things and, hopefully, slightly different things, but hers will be the hardest the match. only a select few of our national leaders, in our long history as a nation, ever rose to what you would call a truly extraordinary level of public achievement in a lifetime. you have one sitting here in bob dole. think back to the last 150 years. not a big group that she would name to put on a list, but he is one of them. i have been very privileged to serve with him in the house and senate. it was 44 years ago, hard to believe, when the u.s. house told republicans, when we started working together but i have been privileged to see his exceptional intellect in play. his leadership, his strength, his -- decency and razor wit. as well as his on going commitment to the broader public good. in fusing in other, a thoughtful people, the need to take this democracy and make it work the way that it ought to. no one has a monopoly on all of the good id