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CAMPAIGN SCORECARD [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] ROUND 1 2 3 4 ISSUE Agenda Control Defusing Attacks Balance Of Power Vacation Days ACTION Using Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Charlton Heston (as Moses) to mock Barack Obama's celebrity, fitness for the presidency and alleged Messiah complex is not the classiest or most substantive gambit in presidential-campaign history. But it sure did allow John McCain to focus the conversation on Obama's greatest vulnerabilities. When Obama remarked on the campaign trail that he doesn't look like previous Presidents, McCain's campaign manager...
...laws that--among other things--created local militias and expanded government control over areas ranging from private property to commerce and agriculture. The decrees revive aspects of a constitutional-reform proposal rejected by voters last December, spurring opponents to condemn Chávez for surreptitiously advancing his socialist agenda despite the people's wishes...
...noble profession, and I believe it is our responsibility to vote, I don't have much faith in government solutions, given the track record. It's why I am a pastor, not a politician. None of my values have changed from four years ago, but my agenda has definitely expanded...
...Clinton has pointed out, the key to winning any close contest is psychological dominance. George W. Bush got into McCain's head and rattled his focus in 2000, and Obama is clearly doing the same thing now. McCain can't seem to shake him off and sell his own agenda. Presidential campaigns aren't just about photo ops, but TV images matter in shaping voters' views. From his dramatic overseas trip to his high-profile meetings at home, Obama is aggressively seeking out stronger political environments than McCain is. Part of McCain's problem: his numerous fund-raising requirements limit...
...surviving political allies were elected, Thaksin returned to Bangkok. He is still enormously popular with poor and rural voters who felt his government, despite the charges against it, was the first to put their interests, like universal health care and debt relief for farmers, on the national agenda...