Word: gop
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...Donna Brazile, Al Gore's former campaign manager and a still-undecided superdelegate, believes the attacks-both Clinton's and the GOP's-are aimed at painting Obama into the stereotypical angry black man. "First he wasn't black enough, then too black because of Rev. Wright," said Brazile, who is African American. "They want a rise out of him, and that will ultimately destroy his candidacy, that will make him the angry black male...
That's the trade in cap and trade, and it harnesses the power of the marketplace to fight warming, a concept that helped Republicans like McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee, fall in love with the idea. What's more, it works. Cap and trade was used in the 1990s to limit sulfur dioxide emissions and help tame acid rain. The most promising piece of green legislation now on Capitol Hill, co-sponsored by independent Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Republican Senator John Warner of Virginia, is a cap-and-trade proposal. The bill is popular, but that doesn...
...embraced the bill, even though he has a real record on the issue. He and Lieberman sponsored cap-and-trade bills in 2003, 2005 and early 2007, when most Senators were missing in action. During the primary, he downplayed that history--a necessary strategy perhaps to secure the GOP nomination. Now that he effectively has it, he could use Lieberman-Warner as a way to woo independent voters and put daylight between himself and Bush...
Just ask the first President Bush, whose approval ratings were the very picture of political health in the spring of 1991. Then a freak accident killed Pennsylvania's GOP Senator John Heinz, and in the special election to replace him, a liberal Democrat named Harris Wofford diagnosed an unease in the electorate about endangered jobs and affordable health care. Hammering at these issues, Wofford came from more than 40 points behind to defeat Bush's formidable friend Richard Thornburgh. A year later, Bill Clinton used the same platform to unseat Bush...
...smarter approach to immigration wouldn't necessarily be enough to shore up Hispanic support for the GOP. Republicans of McCain's stripe believe the social conservatism of many Hispanics makes them natural Republicans, so long as the party does not offend them on immigration. This view oversimplifies Hispanics' political decisions: they tend to favor the Democrats on economic issues. Without domestic policies that are attractive to working-class Americans of all ethnicities, the GOP is unlikely to win lasting majorities among Hispanic voters...