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...recent weeks the House leadership has bypassed a raft of issues aimed at building support among suburban voters in favor of pushing for "values agenda" items, like penalizing online gambling, a gay marriage ban and an upcoming vote on protecting the Pledge of Allegiance from certain kinds of judicial action. Illinois Republican Mark Kirk, head of a GOP centrist group in the House, argues that suburban voters are crucial to the long-term growth of the party, and has put forward a centrist, "suburban agenda" aimed at drawing them in. But elements of the agenda - like anti-sprawl legislation, which...
...holding fast to positions that many voters reject, as a sign of strength in these dangerous times. So his willingness to exercise his first-ever veto this week on a bill that would expand federal funding for human embryonic-stem-cell research, which 2 out of 3 voters favor, is not just a way to stroke his political base. "People like leadership much better than a finger in the wind," says White House press secretary Tony Snow. As Bush explained to him while in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the G-8 summit last week, "I took a position. I believe...
...political climate has since shifted in McKinney's favor. Redistricting in 2004 strengthened McKinney's standing by removing some of her antagonistic white constituency. And anti-Bush sentiment is high. Crossover voting in Georgia's open primary (which helped defeat McKinney in 2002) is likely to be smaller than usual because of a heated Republican fight for lieutenant governor between former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed and Georgia Senator Casey Cagle. Plus, it's tough to defeat an incumbent...
...federal minimum wage has been stuck at $5.15 an hour since 1997. Polls show that more than 80% of Americans favor an increase, but most Republican politicians--who traditionally side with the business lobby on the issue--do not. So Democrats are sharpening their attacks on the G.O.P. for seeming out of step with public opinion. Senator Hillary Clinton of New York has led a Democratic effort to block a scheduled $3,300 increase in congressional pay--the typical lawmaker's salary would rise to $168,500 a year--unless Republicans agree to hike the minimum wage...
...seems liveliest when Collins turns his guns from atheists on the left to creationists and intelligent designers on the right, urging the abandonment of what he feels are overliteral misreadings of Scripture. "I don't think God intended Genesis to teach science," he says, arguing that "the evidence in favor of evolution is utterly compelling." He has little patience with those who say evolution is just a theory, noting that in his scientific world the word theory "is not intended to convey uncertainty; for that purpose a scientist would use the word hypothesis." The book is hard on intelligent design...