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Most people who know me know about my British Isles fetish. After my summer in Ireland, I announced to my parents that I was moving there. It was like my parents were Pat Buchanan and I had just told them I was dating a Democrat. A black Democrat. They weren’t pleased. I’ve tried to figure out why I like traveling to Europe so much. It’s not just the inviting palaces or inviting hookers, as great as those are. I think it has more to do with café culture...
Jessica L. Fleischer ’10 is a History and Literature concentrator in Eliot House, and is still looking for a black Democrat...
Benzan’s frustration over Democrat Martha Coakley’s loss to Republican Scott P. Brown for a seat in the U.S. Senate spurred him to run for the State Senate, he told The Crimson in January...
...McMahon says the independence he showed on health care, bucking the party line on reform despite enormous pressure from party leaders, is exactly the kind of spirit that appeals to Staten Islanders. He swept into office with 61% of the vote in 2008, in part because of the Democratic wave that year and in part because of the doings of Vito Fosella, his GOP predecessor. Fosella was forced to resign after news broke that he had a mistress and love child in Virginia. The Cook Political Report rates the district R+4, meaning it leans Republican. And with...
...McMahon has taken a lot of heat from the left for his vote against President Obama's top priority. New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn canceled a fundraiser for him, and the Service Employees International Union withdrew its support and is now actively searching for a Democrat to challenge McMahon in the September primary, as are MoveOn.org and the local progressive Working Families Party. Still, the unions are split on McMahon, who is usually a strong supporter of the labor agenda, and most other local chapters in his district have remained noticeably quiet on his health care vote. Many...