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...vocational school teaching carpentry and welding to teenagers in Honduras. Red, white and blue "Catholics for Kaine" bumper stickers proliferated in the Old Dominion. David Eichenbaum, Kaine's media strategist, tells TIME that he sees a recipe for national Democrats in Kaine's victory in Virginia, a GOP stronghold that President Bush won by 8 points in 2000 and 9 points in 2004. "Talking about his faith gave people a comfort level that he wasn't a big, scary liberal," Eichenbaum said. "We're trying to show voters that God isn't a Republican." Kaine echoed that in his acceptance...
...young black Republican, Andre Green is not your typical Cambridge politician. In a town where GOP might as well stand for “Greatly Out of Place,” the 24-year-old Cambridge City Council candidate says he takes pride in being different.“If I was like everyone else,” he says, “I wouldn’t have to run.”Friendly and formally dressed, Green sits at a table outside Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square, explaining his seemingly unlikely bid for office. He stresses that...
...focus on these issues is designed to boost Bush's low poll numbers by putting him in the role of commander-in-chief, rather than leader of a now-struggling GOP. But as Bush tries to regain his stride, he's expected to start by reaching out to his Republican supporters. Alito looks to be a good beginning; the choice of the Yale Law School grad, who spent a decade working in the Justice Department for both Reagan and the first President Bush, has conservatives excited. In another move to rebuild support among his base, Bush seems now more eager...
...With Maryland's Democratic leanings and Bush's low approval ratings, Steele faces a tough race; polls already show he trails the likely Democratic nominee, longtime Baltimore Congressman Ben Cardin. Still, Steele will have company: the GOP hopes to have several African-Americans on the ballot in Maryland, and at least two gubernatorial candidates, Kenneth Blackwell in Ohio and Lynn Swann, the ex-Pittsburgh Steelers receiver, in Pennsylvania. Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman says those candidates will help as the party seeks to win black voters by showing blacks they are a part of the Republican Party: "Inclusion means...
...outreach to African-Americans, from historically black colleges to small NAACP chapters. He's pointedly criticized the so-called "Southern Strategy" Republicans used in the past to appeal to white voters in the South by using race as a wedge issue. Mehlman's message is twofold: that some GOP policies appeal to blacks better than those of the Democrats, and that because blacks give 90% of their votes to Democrats, neither party fights for their votes. Rep. Elijah Cummings, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, agrees that blacks should try to "maximize influence" by not being too closely tied...