Word: appealling
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...nation is a testament to the power of the American Dream. That said, President Obama will face profound challenges when he comes into office, ranging from a stagnant economy to two wars with no end in sight. It has frequently been asserted that Obama’s appeal is all rhetoric and no substance, that “hope” and “change” are little more than buzzwords cynically designed to win over a gullible electorate. We think differently. Obama has proven his intelligence, thoughtfulness, and capability again and again, both in his career...
John McCain's selection of Palin, a former Pentecostal Christian, as his running mate was supposed to help strengthen his appeal to religious voters. Republican strategists knew that undecided religious voters broke heavily for George W. Bush in the last weeks of the 2004 campaign, and they hoped Palin's candidacy would sway those voters to the GOP again this year. Instead, those late deciders - including white Evangelicals - appear to have split between Obama and McCain...
...McCain can no longer make that claim. A politician who enjoyed a shiny reputation as a maverick with broad appeal has squandered it in the course of winning the nomination and then trying to hold together a Republican coalition that has been on life support for years. Because of the brutish tone of his campaign and the generally spiteful mood inside the Republican Party, McCain faces a period of uncertain length in the wilderness, abandoned by former admirers on the right and the left. And so his latest test of character awaits: How does he overcome this defeat and retake...
...news story," Salter said, while Obama was the new guy. He said the press was also swayed by the possibility of America electing its first black President, who could get the country "past the old racial baggage we have lugged around for so many years." "I understand that appeal," Salter continued, sounding neither bitter nor upset. "I think McCain probably, as you can tell from his speech last night, felt part of that a little himself. And I think that required the press, then, to start rationalizing McCain into something he wasn...
...turned his back on Hispanics, saying that he opposed stem cell research, mischaracterizing his position on Social Security, on Medicare. Nobody got after him. There wasn't that collective gasp from the press that we got every time we took a shot at the guy. [McCain] rejected every appeal to bring [Rev. Jeremiah] Wright up. Barack Obama made a choice to sit it that church for 20 years and listen to this guy. Then why on earth shouldn't that be something for the voters to consider? He would not do it. He would...