Word: democratization
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...According to the poll, Hispanic voters are backing Obama by a margin of 62 to 28 percent. This is not an unprecedented gap for a generic Democrat, but much had been written during the spring about whether Hispanics would vote for an African-American. Perhaps those analysts believed primary exit polls were a reliable prologue for the fall: Hillary Clinton had run ahead of Obama by a two-to-one margin among Hispanics in the states where exit polls were taken. Note the spread: Clinton usually won between 60 and 65 percent of Hispanics in those contests; Obama captured between...
...House is not in order.' DENNIS KUCINICH, Ohio Democrat, introducing articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Kucinich failed to impeach Dick Cheney...
...large. The Kerry campaign was unprepared when Republicans went after what they had assumed would be their strength - Kerry's military service. And that may be the real reason Obama is wasting no time in reaching out personally to religious leaders and their constituencies. He may be the only Democrat who could hold those conversations. And he may also be the only Democrat who has no choice...
...Obama keep are not entirely irrelevant to that question. Nor does the outrage game paper over some of the real differences between the two candidates on issues of money in politics. Obama, for instance, does not take money from registered lobbyists, while McCain does, a fact that the Democrat argues insulates him from improper influence. This argument is complicated by the fact that Obama continues to take money from the corporate executives who employ those lobbyists...
...domestic intelligence law. They also suggest that the Venezuelan leader is keeping his radical burners on medium-low for now, in the hopes that fewer outbursts from Hurricane Hugo - who has previously called President Bush "the devil" and Uribe "a criminal" - could even help get a Democrat into the White House this fall. "[Chavez] may decide to go a little less gonzo in the coming months as a result," says Birns. Meanwhile, the rest of the world will be paying attention to what Chavez does - despite the fact that it's often very hard to ignore the things Chavez says...