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...Democrat Udall beat former Congressman Bob Schaffer for a vacant seat. The son of longtime Arizona Congressman Mo Udall, who mentored John McCain, he benefited from his 2002 House vote against the Iraq invasion and from his green cred, which allowed him to tar his opponent...
...undergraduate-heavy crowd, snacking on pizza and free Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, watched CNN’s coverage of the election at the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics. Below the forum’s big screen, life-size cut-outs of Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain stood next to a map showing the states each candidate had won—the Obama cut-out posed for substantially more photo ops over the course of the evening. Before the results had even begun to trickle in, CNN attracted viewers?...
...We’re talking about a country moving in the right direction toward equality for all.” On the other side of the aisle, some campus conservatives celebrated what they saw as a triumph. “Issues of importance like this are best chosen through democratic decision making,” said Harvard Republican Club President Colin J. Motley ’10. “I think that the decision through this means is better than going through non-elected judges.” Like McCarthy, Motley also criticized Obama’s muddled position...
Unless Dobson has undergone a dramatic political conversion, it's safe to assume he does not consider Barack Obama's election on Tuesday to be divinely ordained. In June, Dobson delivered a furious broadside against the Democrat, charging that he was "deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own world view." And yet in a year in which the economy mattered more than social issues for most voters, Obama's comfortable victory included Democratic gains in every single religious category among the electorate...
Nationally, Obama captured 53% of the Catholic vote, a 13-point swing from 2004 and the largest advantage among the group for a Democrat since Bill Clinton. Obama also cut in half the Republican advantage among Protestants. And he made significant gains among regular worship attenders. Voters who attend religious services most frequently are still most likely to cast ballots for Republicans. But Obama won 44% of their votes, a 19-point shift in the category that, after the last presidential contest, inspired pundits to diagnose the existence of a "God gap." Voters who worship at least once a month...