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Obama's campaign made its final push in the city Monday night, with an appearance by running mate Joe Biden and several members of the World Champion Philadelphia Phillies baseball team. Significantly, the appearance was in a heavily white, blue collar district in South Philadelphia, where Hillary Clinton won in the primary by a large margin and the McCain campaign hopes to pick up enough conservative, Catholic Democratic voters to help depress Obama's margin of victory in the city...
...there will be a certain number of conservatives who rally around Palin as the next bright hope. There will be others who say, look, what's killing us is we've got this stand on abortion that's an albatross around our neck. They will look for some champion, somebody of the Jim Leach school of Republican thought...
Ultimately, the judges and audience agreed to crown Nick J. Navarro ’10 as the 2008 champion and awarded him $500 for his proposal, Meshconnect, which “aims to assist China by offering a new mesh technology that will reduce Wi-Fi costs by a factor...
...Though Cambridge city councillors are not elected by political party, the current councillors either openly identify with the Democratic Party—like Toomey, who serves both at City Hall and in the State House—or champion left-leaning clauses, like Henrietta J. Davis, who frequently proposes wind and solar energy alternatives. Indeed, the only elected official in Cambridge who is not a member of the Democratic Party is Luc D. Schuster, the one School Committee member who belongs to the Green Party...
...Crimson go head-to-head with the ECAC’s most talented teams all season. Biega’s defining characteristic last season was his impact in games against ranked opponents. He tallied a pair of goals in December’s loss to the eventual NCAA Champion Eagles as well as goals against No. 18 Quinnipiac and No. 19 Rensselaer. “I expect Michael to continue to improve and take the next step,” Donato says. “He’s certainly capable of being a big offensive force...