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...support? For one thing, those economic anxieties are back in full force. Every grumble of discontent heard over the winter months at other campaign stops has echoes in Pennsylvania, and Democrats appear invigorated. Since November, some 300,000 voters filed new registrations as Democrats to vote in this contest...
...esteem issues and personal demons, all steeped in the pop-therapy language of personal growth through challenge. From Survivor to American Idol, reality's premise has been that what does not get you eliminated makes you stronger. The Amazing Race (which shares two producers with Big Give) is part contest, part couples' therapy. The pairs of players who race around the world--squabbling marrieds, doubtful fiancés, estranged parents and kids--regularly say they signed up as much to work on their relationships as to win a million bucks...
...Penn’s departure on Sunday reflects a wider rise-and-fall trend among advisors on the campaign trail. Persistent sniping between surrogates and consultants has provided prime fodder for a political contest of tense and competitive edge. The transcript reads like a bureaucratized soap opera: Clinton New Hampshire co-chairman Bill Shaheen resigned after suggesting that Obama’s past drug use would hurt his chances in the general election. Similarly, Obama adviser and Harvard faculty member Samantha Power had to step down from her campaign position after dramatically labeling Clinton a “monster...
...illusions," says Abercrombie. "He was a man of his time, from a very patriarchal society." Ann filed for divorce in Honolulu in January 1964, citing "grievous mental suffering"-the reason given in most divorces at the time. Obama Sr. signed for the papers in Cambridge, Mass., and did not contest the divorce...
...both candidates will find plenty of reasons in the poll to contest the state right to the end. One in five Pennsylvania Democrats has yet to pick a favorite candidate; and roughly one in six voters who told TIME they favor either Obama or Clinton said they could change their minds in the next two weeks. Notes Stanley Feldman, the SUNY Stonybrook political scientist who analyzed the poll for TIME, "Clinton's six point lead over Obama at this point should not make her very comfortable. There is still plenty of opportunity for Obama to gain the voters he needs...