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...addition, political analysts say Obama needs to focus more on expanding his political map and luring fiscal-conservative voters away from McCain - voters like Hecimovich. McCain's "base are independent-leaning voters concerned by overspending in Washington," Riehle says. "Obama can battle McCain in appealing to those kind of voters very well." But so far Obama has seemed unwilling to do what both Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton did against their respective rivals: paint his opponent as, having spent the past 30 years in Washington, being out of touch with ordinary voters...
...real world,” trying to make it a better place with everything that I’ve learned at Harvard. That is why I chose to work at a microfinance institution (MFI) in Cambodia. For many people, microfinance has philanthropic connotations because of its focus on the world’s poorest. This is not a completely inaccurate depiction, as it does offer many options for the poor that they have never previously had. However, microfinance at its core is more reliant on the agency of the poor than on the philanthropy of those in the industry. Microfinance...
...Arizona senator has never been on the best of terms with social conservatives - James Dobson, president of the Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family, once flatly declared "I will never vote for McCain." A recent poll from the Pew Research Center found that although McCain has the support of a healthy 61% of Evangelicals, he still lags behind President Bush's numbers in the same constituency four years...
...focus on the trivial and superficial while the nation remains at war and teeters on the edge of an economic recession...
...Meanwhile, the FBI continued to focus its research on Dr. Steven Hatfill, another scientist at Fort Detrick. It proved a consuming distraction. Earlier this year, a federal judge found "not one scintilla of evidence" linking Hatfill to the anthrax mailings, and the government settled with Hatfill in June, agreeing to pay him $2.83 million and an annuity of $150,000. It was not until 2004 that FBI agents realized that Ivins had not given them the exact sample of anthrax they had requested, so an agent went to the lab and confiscated a flask...