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...already he is being touted for Governor and beyond. Condon is "the most ambitious and opportunistic attorney general this state has seen in modern times," says David Lublin, a professor of political science at the University of South Carolina. "He has taken clever political advantage of the backlash against the 'moral looseness,' and is effective at getting his message...
...people who have been nudged into HMOs has increased 50%, to 67.5 million. And as participation rates have climbed, so have complaints, many of which sound like the horrors that would supposedly have taken place under the Clinton plan: rationing of procedures, a narrower choice of doctors. Fueling the backlash has been a spate of front-page stories about plans that will pay for cataract surgery in only one eye or that keep doctors from discussing expensive types of care. In a recent nationwide poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation, an independent health-care philanthropy, 55% of those in managed...
Elsewhere, efforts to form gay-straight alliances have caused a backlash from officials who don't want schools to endorse gay rights. In the most noted case, the state of Utah banned gay school clubs last year after students at Salt Lake City's East High formed such a group. The legislature got involved because the local school board feared that targeting gay clubs could provoke a lawsuit. Indeed, the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund has used legal threats to shelter gay-straight alliances at more than 20 schools nationally. Ironically, the fund's primary weapon is the federal...
...Barbie and Barney Backlash...
...jocular Dubliner did seem surprised by the backlash caused by a simple name change. "So what do they want us do?" he demanded. "Put up a sign that says...