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...aimed at trying to pick off a few outlying, affluent suburbs where his tax plan is popular. Yet Obama still looks strong there. "If Obama can run up big numbers in the suburbs outside Cleveland, then this thing could be a blowout," says Mike Curtin, publisher emeritus of The Columbus Dispatch...
...Suburb Belt Around Columbus For decades, Ohio's sprawling capital city preferred milquetoast Republicans like George Bush Sr. As conservatives move into the exurbs, though, the city swung toward milquetoast Democrats like John Kerry. Its diversified, white-collar economy is doing better than the rest of the state, which means other issues including health care and the Iraq war are also on voters' minds...
...understand the appeal the former Prentiss County chancery clerk has in deep red northern Mississippi, it's less helpful to know his party affiliation than to watch him deliver a 15-minute soliloquy on the glories of fried green tomatoes over lunch in Columbus or work the crowd at the annual Good Ole Boys and Gals political barbecue in Oxford or react to the news that squirrel dumplings would be served at a cookout in Yalobusha County. "Honey child!" Childers shouted with glee. "I think it's fair to say," he told me later, "that I'm a squirrel-dumpling...
California's fight over the initiative to ban gay marriage (popularly called Prop. 8) has attracted its share of million-dollar donors. The big contributors in the fight to approve Prop. 8 include the Knights of Columbus ($1 million); the National Organization for Marriage ($500,000); Dr. John Templeton, the son of the philanthropist Sir John Templeton ($450,000); and Focus on the Family ($500,000). Fighting against approval of Prop. 8 are celebrities like Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw ($50,000 each), as well as former GOP U.S. Senate candidate Michael Huffington ($100,000); Robert Haas, chairman...
...changed since you first started? Amy Sandberg COLUMBUS, OHIO...