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What we needed to do was to have dialogue with people of faith. As it turned out, they were the ones that supported Prop 8. I am a Buddhist. We live in a pluralistic society. What's essential in a pluralistic society is mutual respect. There are Christians who support marriage equality, Jews, Hindus. People of faith are decent, fair-minded people, I'm convinced. We failed in [initiating] that dialogue as a campaign...
...White House in 1912. Like Obama, Wilson had spent his adult life immersed in university politics. Wilson's essays on American history feature the voice of a professor, not a machine candidate. Obama is himself something of a Wilsonian progressive, a man who puts his faith in transparency and voluntarism rather than New Deal--style interest-group wrangling. He also maintains some of Wilson's reserved and intellectual approach to managing the national welfare...
...campaign missed an opportunity to pursue and persuade younger Evangelicals in a sustained way and possibly welcome a new generation of voters into the Democratic coalition. As a September survey from Faith and Public Life found, younger Evangelicals are much more likely than their older counterparts to identify themselves as moderate or liberal. And their political positions match that orientation as well - they support expanded government and diplomacy over military intervention. Yet they were no more likely to vote for Obama than older Evangelicals. It's possible that social issues are still a stumbling block. Younger Evangelicals are even more...
...smaller, more male and whiter at a time when the electorate is heading the other way. But the Democrats did not come close to their dream of a 60-seat, filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, which suggests that people's hunger for change is tempered by their faith in restraint.(Read "Congressional Races to Watch...
...party that was bent on retribution; he preached reconciliation, and when voters were asked a year ago who had the best chance of winning, Hillary Clinton crushed him, 71% to 26%. He had to build a new church and reach out to the seekers who had lost faith in government or never had any in the first place. He ran not so much on any creed as on the belief that everything was broken, that the very system that produces candidates and frames issues and decides who loses and who wins in public life does little more than make...