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...Palm Beach County GOP chairman Sid Dinerstein, who is Jewish, said it was the 65-year-old, more affluent Jews whom he believed would move toward McCain, particularly "a lot who haven't voted Republican before." "When you are the candidate of [Louis] Farrakhan...the Jews with an open mind get very, very nervous," Dinerstein said. The Clintons, he said, would never have made a comment like Obama's that Palestinians are among the world's most oppressed people, then gone after the Jewish vote. Dinerstein's optimistic prediction: Some 30% of Jewish voters across the country will vote...
...settled on Obama during the debates. "I think that's ignorance - people are just afraid on his part for the change he could bring. He's just different than any other candidate we've had so far. I know in my generation and in older people's generation they haven't had a young black man before. I think it scares the baby boomers...
Cleveland: Memories of 2004, 7:00 a.m. E.T. Memories of the 2004 presidential election haven't faded here in Cuyahoga County, where Cleveland is located. Botched administration in counties around the state tethered voters to their precincts, sometimes for hours, and the confusion forced many to cast provisional ballots, which were a source of more bureaucratic and legal bickering. Since then Ohio has enacted a month-long early voting period and Cuyahoga County has completely overhauled its elections system - twice. (See pictures of tough times in Cleveland...
...supporting Barack Obama for President. "The calls began this past weekend," says Kendall Coffey, former U.S. Attorney in Miami and a staunch Democrat. The calls quoted Cuba's official newspaper, Granma, when referencing Castro's support, Coffey says. "The robo-calls started three or four days ago. I haven't heard them, but my friends in the Cuban-American community have. They are targeting Democrats and Republicans based on age, because older Cubans have the most bitter experience with Castro...
...ways unseen before in the state," says Fred Solop, chair of the political-science department at Northern Arizona University. "They have a shot at capturing the state house for the first time since 1966." Analysts say they also have a shot at taking back the state senate, which they haven't controlled since...