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...turn to indicate their approval or disapproval of what the candidates were saying. When the Democratic nominee noted the sexual orientation of Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter Mary, to a person, they thought the remark was odd, jarring. "People thought it was uncalled for," Luntz found. In an ABC News poll, 2 of 3 voters said Kerry's reference to Mary Cheney was inappropriate, though 57% agreed with the larger point he was making--that homosexuals don't choose to be gay but rather are being "who they felt God had made them...
John Edwards' wife Elizabeth had another theory to explain Lynne Cheney's reaction. "I think that it indicates a certain degree of shame with respect to her daughter's sexual preferences," Edwards said in an ABC radio interview. But there's no evidence that the Cheneys have treated their daughter with shame. After the vice-presidential debate, Mary and Heather both went up on stage with the rest of the family while the TV cameras were still rolling. Later Kerry said that he had meant to hail the Cheneys as an example of "the way strong families deal with this...
SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP, in a company statement last April, explaining why it refused to air a special edition of ABC's Nightline that consisted of reading the names and showing pictures of each of the 523 U.S. soldiers who had died in Iraq...
...constituency long believed to be a Democratic bedrock. But in 2000, Bush captured 35% of the Hispanic vote, more than any other Republican presidential candidate, and his campaign has made it a goal to bring in 40% this time. It may be close: Hispanic voters surveyed in an ABC News tracking poll this month preferred Kerry to Bush by only 56% to 39%. The proportion of Latinos who say they are Democrats is down from 48% to 45% since Bush's victory. And recent gubernatorial elections in California, Florida and New York have shown that G.O.P. candidates...
...candidates are not the only ones anxious about strong women today. TV executives are too, after the out-of-nowhere success of the No. 1 new series Desperate Housewives. ABC's dark-humored soap suggests that all is not well on Venus in 2004--and that you underappreciate women at your peril, in TV and in life...