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...going to be campaigning in Pennsylvania, it's good to have Ed Rendell with you ... Better to have him with you than against you." Kerry should know. Rendell, whose fund-raising and organizational prowess are the stuff of legend in Pennsylvania politics, was Kerry's biggest asset in that all-important swing state four years ago, when he squeezed out a two-point victory over George W. Bush there. Had the 2004 Democratic nominee managed to do the same in neighboring Ohio, Kerry would be running his reelection campaign now rather than squaring off against his old ally on Sunday...
...wades through the fin de régime, Fox News will have one important asset: its loyal viewer base. But even for them, it will need to shake up its comfortable Bush-era routine, perhaps by cultivating new hosts, perhaps by taking a page from McCain and branding itself as the channel of maverick authenticity, not of establishment dogma. The viewers are Fox's to keep. It just has to figure out what's going to make them mad starting...
...Sources: A.P.; BBC; JPMorgan Chase; A.P.; New York Times; Financial Times Numbers Sources: A.P.; Mortgage Asset Research Institute; Wall Street Journal (2); BBC; EADS Astrium; A.P.; Economist Intelligence Unit
...think that Hollywood, like the chiselers of mountains, would side with the charismatic dreamers. But John Adams shows that Adams' unflashy tenacity--"Thanks be to God, He gave me stubbornness"--is an asset and his skepticism a form of idealism. To put it in today's terms, Adams is not the Founding Father you'd want to have a beer with. That might be Jefferson or witty, bawdy Franklin. But Adams beat Jefferson in the first contested U.S. election, in 1796, before losing to him in 1800. Who was right? Who ultimately won? Unlike the reply on Mount Rushmore, that...
Sources: AP; Mortgage Asset Research Institute; TIDES; AP; TNS Media Intelligence; BBC; EADS Astrium; Qantas; U.S. Dept. of Labor