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...Public Mistrust Re Michael Grunwald's piece on how Washington failed us: I'm neither Republican nor Democrat, and I am disgusted with both [Oct. 13]. Both presidential candidates want to blame Wall Street, and there is surely some merit to that. But the heart of the problem rests with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, two quasi-government corporations. Despite several attempts by legislators to call attention to the impending crisis, lawmakers like Senator Christopher Dodd - the No. 1 recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie and Freddie - preached the soundness of these institutions. This is not a failure...
...Republican Party the social conservatives are a strong and vocal segment that uses scare tactics to try and keep other Republicans from being more supportive,” Sammon said. “But they probably only represent one in four Republicans.” Both Sammon and Stonewall Democrat President Jon Hoadley said that they saw eye-to-eye on LGBT issues but held differing viewpoints when it came to the current presidential election. Sammon suggested that while the Democratic Party has a history of pro-LGBT promises, the inaction of Democratic candidate Barack Obama on issues such...
Feeney helped draw the district boundaries to his benefit during the 2002 reapportionment while he was Speaker of the Florida House. But that advantage, which in past elections translated into big, double-digit winning margins, has vaporized. The latest poll, released Sept. 18 by Democratic challenger Suzanne Kosmas, a well-financed, term-limited state legislator and businesswoman from New Smyrna Beach, showed Feeney only one percentage point ahead of Kosmas, a statistical dead heat. For the first time, Feeney lost the endorsement of his hometown newspaper, the Orlando Sentinel, which noted on October 12 that Feeney's power has waned...
...when he banged the table so hard they feared it would split. In one case, recalls former Arizona Senator Dennis DeConcini, when he refused to fire an aide who had annoyed McCain, "to put it politely, he told me that I could go do something with myself." DeConcini, a Democrat, says that "in my eight years with him, I learned that John just hates it when you disagree with him. If you press it, he just falls back on his patriotism. And then he blows up." The sense that you're never sure which McCain you'll get feeds Obama...
...multitask. Since he hasn't nearly as much experience handling a crisis as McCain does, he's used his campaign itself as a stand-in, one long test of nerves. He resisted calls to take a hatchet to Hillary Clinton a year ago; as McCain gained ground in September, Democrats demanded that Obama get hotter and meaner. But he barely touched the thermostat. It's hard for McCain to charge that we don't know who Obama really is when he has been the most disciplined Democrat voters have seen in years...