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...fact, this year's deeper class divide is among Republicans. The party's blue-collar base is furious over illegal immigration and has begun to notice that the GOP's business wing is keeping the borders porous. McCain, whose position on immigration is more chamber of commerce than Lou Dobbs, may get caught in the cross fire, with nativist Republicans opting for a third party or simply staying home. All of which suggests that the media's fretting about beer and wine Democrats is misplaced. The party that's likely to have trouble holding its liquor this fall...
...newly spread wings, Vale's home base is firmly in Brazil. When its three new joint-venture steel projects (with German, Chinese and Korean partners) come online in Brazil next year, Vale will be supplying 70% of demand--a commanding position that even a state-owned firm might envy.n
...true? McCain is, as he often admits, a superstitious fellow who depends on talismans for good luck--the penny he carries in his pocket or that rubber band strapped around his left wrist. As it stands, he is still too busy attempting to convince his party and its conservative base that he is not to be feared. Witness his latest endorsement road show: Mitt Romney in Boston, George H.W. Bush in Houston and a bunch of big-name Republican Representatives in Washington. These are the moves of a man still speaking to his party's base...
...magic: the face-to-face charm that reinvigorated the 71-year-old candidate after his campaign imploded last summer. It is a strategy calling for more bus tours and large group discussions with voters. It also calls for a concerted effort to court voters outside the Republican base--a Barack Obama-like gambit that is already seeping into McCain's public rhetoric...
...visible. Obama decamped to Texas after Wisconsin, where he plans on spending a few days and where polls show he is much is closer to catching Clinton than he is in Ohio. Texas Democrats have for a generation been the minority party in Texas: Obama begins with strong base among African-American voters in Houston and Dallas; Clinton enjoys a head start among the state's Hispanic population, which numbers close to 7 million. Obama noted in Houston on Tuesday night that early voting has already begun in the state and he urged a crowd of more than...