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Republicans Claim Turnout Edge in Orlando Area, 1:20 p.m. E.T. McCain campaign staff in Orlando monitoring turnout at certain heavily Republican and heavily Democratic - but non-African American - precincts say they are seeing stronger voting activity in the right-leaning neighborhoods...
...heard how the 2004 election came out. Bush, who lost the popular count by half a million votes in 2000, won by 3 million the next time around. He also took virtually every state Moore campaigned in. So the only suspense in the movie is how Moore will somehow claim victory. He does it at the end by noting that young people, his target audience, voted in record numbers and that they were the only age group to go for Kerry. That's impressive, Pyrrhically, except that Moore's stated purpose in making Fahrenheit 9/11 was to end the Bush...
With five days left to the election and polls heavily favoring his opponent, Sen.ator John McCain is hoping for a miraculous turnaround—or a disastrous gaffe. In desperation, the Republican’s campaign has ferociously attacked the Los Angeles Times for its claim that releasing a video from 2003 of Senator Barach Obama would violate a confidentiality agreement between it and a source, and its subsequent decision not to make the video public...
...favor of Proposition 8. Its proponents in California’s Voter Information Guide, for example, invoke “human history” and utilize scare tactics as a defense of traditional marriage. “If the gay marriage ruling is not overturned,” they claim, “TEACHERS COULD BE REQUIRED to teach young children there is no difference between gay marriage and traditional marriage.” Prop 8 does not mention education, and the state education code makes it illegal to instruct children about marriage whose parents object. Another source of criticism...
...host of peripheral western powers - have the will to settle on a deal? And do they have the will to confront the government of Rwanda, a country scarred by its 1994 genocide, which has given sympathy - and, many suspect, military support - to the rebels? The fighters claim to be protecting ethnic Tutsis from some of the same Hutu militias responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus during the Rwanda genocide. Both Hutu and Tutsi groups are remnants of refugee militias that fled to Congo during and after the genocidal conflicts in Rwanda. "This is a massacre...