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Earlier this year, when Democrats were making a list of Republican Senators who would be easy to beat in November, Michigan's Spencer Abraham looked like the Big Easy. A former staff member for Vice President Dan Quayle, he was elected in 1994 as part of the Newt Gingrich insurgency. The state's first G.O.P. Senator in more than 20 years, Abraham went to Washington, then went nowhere. As a Senator he focused on topics like immigrant visas for highly skilled workers--important to business, but not the hottest of hot buttons for voters--while telephone calls from constituents went...
...Abraham now the front runner, with a double-digit lead in most polls over two-term Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Stabenow? He got there, first of all, by getting out far ahead in the money game. Compared with Stabenow's campaign fund of $6 million, Abraham expects to raise $14 million all told, though he spent just $4.4 million to get elected six years ago. Then he poured the money into TV spots that clobbered Stabenow on an issue she thought was hers: the high cost of prescription drugs for the elderly...
...small hill in Jerusalem's old city is sacred for all three of the religions that trace their origins back to Abraham--Christianity, Islam and Judaism. As such, it has been the epicenter of virtually unending religious conflict for the last 2,000 years...
...real battle. To Jews, the site is revered as the location of the temples built by Solomon and Herod, the latter of which was destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70. Even before that, it was sacred. At its center is the tip of Mount Moriah, where God tested Abraham by demanding the sacrifice of his son Isaac. That rock is where some scholars believe the Ark of the Covenant sat. But it also lies beneath the golden Dome of the Rock, the spot where Muslims believe the Prophet Muhammad ascended into heaven and back. The main mosque...
...case of being outspent," says Wayne County executive Ed McNamara, a Democrat. "If you get the spin doctors going, you can elect Dracula to heaven." Stabenow is looking for rescue from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which is pouring in money to put her advertising outlays in line with Abraham's. "Here's all we know," says Jim Jordan, the Democratic Senate-campaign political director. "After millions of dollars, Abraham still hasn't reached 50% in the polls. The voters of Michigan are looking for an alternative." Maybe so. But whether Stabenow is the alternative they are looking...