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...contrast, only 19 percent of McCain supporters had similarly-negative feelings about Obama’s selection of Delaware Senator Joe Biden for his vice-presidential running mate. But of the 95 percent of students who have decided on a presidential candidate, almost a third said that vice-presidential choice bore on their decision...
Retailers could well be fighting over less. Almost 60% of consumers expect to reduce their spending this Christmas according to Deloitte's annual holiday survey, with 11% reporting that they're still paying off holiday debt from last year. Shoppers indicated they would purchase a lot fewer gifts this year - 21.5 presents on average compared with 23.1 last year. Almost seven in 10 said they intend to change their shopping behavior because of the economy; 81% say they plan to buy more sale items. "Over the last few holiday seasons consumers would buy for themselves too as they shopped...
...Horrible pass to Lorditch almost gets intercepted, but is bobbled by the Dartmouth guy, then bobbled about 20 times by Lorditch before he dropped...
...time, but what was started could not be undone. By 1996, thanks to lobbying by conservative groups like the American Family Association and the new Republican Congress’s mantra of “fiscal responsibility,” the NEA saw its budget slashed by almost 40 percent. Individual artist grants were gone, as was general funding to arts organizations. Ultraconservatives won. Welcome...
...Gays may see the cabinet as powerful, almost numinous, but its own members see themselves as largely unorganized and highly independent. "It's a group of people who like and respect each other and their opinions," Ray Mulliner, a longtime Hormel adviser, told me recently. "It's nothing more than like-minded donors getting together to share strategies." When I mentioned that similar organizations on the right had received press scrutiny - I was thinking of the Arlington Group, a coalition of movement conservatives - Mulliner angrily rejected the comparison: "You have no reason to be curious about this. You're going...