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...Almost every one of the Iraq veterans running for Congress as a Democrat is in a tough, high-profile fight against a Republican incumbent: they'll be the poster boys (and women: Tammy Duckworth, who lost both legs in Iraq, is running in Illinois) for the Democrats' long-shot efforts to retake the House in 2006. They may also represent the beginning of the Dems' long climb back to credibility on national-security issues. Chris Carney has one of the toughest races. "The district is so Republican that no one really thinks he can win, even with Sherwood's problems...
That means no more avalanches of TV ads. "By 2008, 35% of all television viewers and 50% of registered voters will have digital video recorders," says Simon Rosenberg, president of the New Democrat Network (NDN), an advocacy group that introduces Democrats to new-media strategies--or tries to anyway. "And 100% of them will skip political ads. So we'll have to talk to people in smarter ways." The easiest people to talk to are those who want to listen, so a few years ago both parties started coaxing as much personal information as they could out of donors...
...Allen, an advocate of home-schooling and abstinence education, is extremely well known to conservative activists as the press secretary to former Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina in his tough 1984 reelection race against then-Gov. James B. Hunt Jr., a Democrat. In 2003, Bush nominated Allen to a lifetime seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va., but Democrats objected and there was never a confirmation hearing. Allen was Secretary of Health and Human Resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1998 to 2001, appointed by former Gov. Jim Gilmore, and came...
...clear how any of the candidates—if elected—could achieve their aims. As each Democrat noted, there is no official definition of the lieutenant governor’s authority, and the position has few formal powers...
...Arias, 64, a Social Democrat who won the Nobel Prize during his first presidency in the 1980s for his work to end Central America?s bloody civil wars, defeated Otton Solis of the Citizen?s Action Party by just 1.1%, one of the closest margins in Costa Rica?s history, and he garnered only 40.9% of the total vote. Solis-who was backed by the radical and increasingly popular left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez-opposes Costa Rica?s entrance into the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) with...