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...think it in poor taste to gloat about their record profits. But even Monday's news that Iraq would open six of its oil fields to international contracts - news that came just hours after Royal Dutch Shell president Jeroen van der Veer announced to the congress that such a deal was "weeks, not months" away - failed to lighten the mood...
...trick is figuring out what Catholics want. For decades, they were part of the New Deal coalition and were largely concerned with economics and foreign policy. More recently, Republicans have cut into that advantage by appealing to Catholics on social issues, a courtship that culminated in George W. Bush's victory in 2004. The TIME poll confirmed that a majority of Catholics (59%) can be broadly defined as pro-life (opposing abortion except to protect a woman's life or health or in cases of rape or incest). But these pro-life Catholics are actually split into two voting camps...
...Tending the FlockWhen Kmiec was growing up in Chicago in the 1950s and '60s, Catholics ran the city's Democratic political machine. The New Deal had cemented their loyalty to the party, but those ties began to fray in the late '60s and early '70s as many Catholics felt alienated by everything from the Roe v. Wade decision to urban busing initiatives. Kmiec was part of the wave of Reagan Democrats who were drawn to the Republican President's policies and vision...
...bigger payoff politically. When he announced his plans to run for the U.S. Senate, his poker pals - white guys from small-town Illinois - were among his earliest supporters. Link says the Wednesday-night gang didn't realize how far Obama would go: "Nobody said, 'Mr. President, it's your deal.' " But Obama's risk-averse, methodical approach to five-card stud gives Link confidence in his potential governing style. "If he runs his presidency the way he plays poker, I'll sleep good at night," he says...
...Asked whether Iran would oppose the government of Iraq if it signed a controversial security agreement enabling a long-term U.S. military presence in the country, Mottaki predicted that Iraqi leaders would never sign such a deal...