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...finds himself down in McCain's home state by just 3.5 points - an average of Arizona polls that show Obama down as little as 1 point or as much as 5. Which is why the Obama campaign announced late last week that it would buy advertising in the Grand Canyon State in a late bid to win Arizona's 10 electoral votes. It is "a very, very close race," Obama campaign manager David Plouffe told reporters in a conference call on Friday...
...That has not exactly endeared him to the 1.8 million Latinos living in Arizona, who make up 4% of the U.S. Latino population. The Pew Center estimates that there are 677,525 eligible Latino voters, the majority of them under age 30, accounting for 17% of voters in the Grand Canyon State. "The Hispanic vote has been challenging," Diaz concedes. "Some of that can be directly attributed to the debate on immigration, but keep in mind that Senator McCain, especially in his home state, is well known and is trusted and has stood up for all of his constituents, including...
...strategy works, and their approach proves convincing, the future leadership of the Grand Old Party—and the country—could look a lot like the HRC does...
...Unable to win office, and in a very small minority, the Cantabrigian branch of the Grand Old Party mostly expresses itself via a twice-monthly column, “The Right View,” published in the Cambridge Chronicle. Members and friends of the Republican City Committee take turns writing the articles, which focus on issues like taxes, school curricula, and the performance of the current city government...
...example, Stryker's Arcus Foundation gave away $11.8 million as part of its Gay and Lesbian Program. The money reached both big-name groups like the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (which got half a million dollars) and little organizations like the Actors Theatre Co. of Grand Rapids, Mich., which got $25,000 to produce a play called Seven Passages: The Story of Gay Christians...