Word: democratator
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...next few weeks, newspapers in Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania will endorse candidates for President. In fact, most of them will endorse both a Democrat and a Republican. In 2004, presidential candidates were endorsed by 418 newspapers across the country - 29% of all the papers...
...Complicating both Clinton and Obama's calculation is the fact that Texas has not voted for a Democrat in a fall presidential campaign for decades. Ohio, on the other hand, is a battleground state every four years. And, at least on paper, Ohio looks like a state that should work better for Clinton. It is a far more conservative state than Wisconsin, and lacks Wisconsin's deeply Progressive tradition. Its eight million voters are a stubbornly diverse mix of farmers, factory workers, and white-collar professionals split up among a half dozen large cities, a score of midsize towns...
With Christian Democrat Helmut Kohl recently installed as Chancellor of West Germany and Socialist Prime Minister Francois Mitterrand facing formidable opposition in France, the Tory triumph stirred talk of a rising conservative tide in Western Europe. The election is also heartening for Ronald Reagan, whose resolutely anti-Soviet foreign policy and free-market economic philosophy are shared by Thatcher. As he weighs a second term, Reagan cannot help noting that Thatcher scored points for bringing down inflation but did not seem to lose many for failing to cut the worrisome unemployment rate...
...today.“Only one thing matters in terms of what the future holds for Roe, and it is the outcome of presidential elections,” Toobin says. “If a Republican wins in 2008, Roe v. Wade is going to be overturned. If a Democrat wins, it’s going to be upheld, period, end of story. That’s a rather crude view, but I hold it dearly.”Toobin specifically timed the release of “The Nine” to coincide with the beginning of the presidential...
...primary campaign strategy is any indication, the U.S. presidential election is far less democratic that it pretends to be. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama began their bids with months of fundraising and media spin, and it seems now that they will end it by soliciting votes from party elites instead of the American people.In a contest with just over 4,000 total delegates, these unpledged Democratic “superdelegates” control almost 800 votes—a 20 percent stake that could become the margin of victory in the nomination. The Republicans, gradually coalescing around John McCain, have...