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...Palm Beach Democrats Are Smiling, 4:30 p.m. E.T. A Democratic Party operative in Palm Beach County, Fla., is ecstatic. Not only does the high early-voting turnout favor Democratic voters, but the party appears to be ahead in absentee ballots, traditionally dominated by Republicans. "[In the past,] we've won races on the machines and lost them in the absentee," says Mark Alan Siegel, president of the Democratic Club of Boca Raton-Delray Beach, in the southern part of the county...
...exile community, voiced praise for (but didn't outright endorse) Obama: "Without a doubt," Castro wrote this morning in Cuba's state-controlled media, "Obama is more intelligent, cultured and levelheaded" than McCain. DiBenigno, a Cuban American and daughter of exiles, tells TIME, "Castro has done us a big favor...
...carmakers are now talking about asking Congress for new tax incentives, such as making interest on car loans deductible or granting tax credits for scrapping old cars - moves designed to encourage consumers to purchase new vehicles. And it's not just Detroit that's hurting. "We would be in favor of some kind of action if it was across the board," says Irv Miller, vice president of public relations for Toyota Motor Co., which saw its sales drop 26% last month in spite of ongoing zero-interest financing deals...
...private sectors has the potential to mitigate the effects of the current recession on college affordability. At the institutional level, colleges and universities can take a number of steps to enhance affordability. Schools with merit-based financial aid or athletic scholarship programs should consider scaling these initiatives back in favor of need-based solutions, which would enhance accessibility. At public universities, only 44 percent of financial aid money goes to need-based programs; it is imperative that this share increase during a recession in order to make continued college attendance possible for families hit by the downturn. In addition...
...relative unknown. Has there really been a searching examination of his past? He doesn't have a long record to examine. Most of his time in the Senate he's been out running for President - something he's done very well, and that's a point in his favor. But I think there's been a decided lack of interest in [his record]. There were media outlets who barely touched the Rev. Wright example. And that was a compelling story. I think that's an example of how the Obama bandwagon has caught up a lot of journalists...