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...Clinton among upper-middle-class "wine" Democrats. Among white working-class "beer" Democrats, however, he sometimes struggles. Traditionally, in Democratic contests, hops trump grapes: Walter Mondale beat Gary Hart in 1984, Bill Clinton beat Paul Tsongas in 1992, Al Gore beat Bill Bradley in 2000, and John Kerry beat Howard Dean in 2004--all by winning big among the Budweiser set. If Obama wins the nomination, he'll have done so with the most upscale coalition since Michael Dukakis' in 1988 or maybe even George McGovern's in 1972. Both Dukakis and McGovern got trounced in November; if Obama becomes...
...Howard Dean has alluded to a possible “arrangement” to avoid the superdelegate scramble. However, with Obama currently claiming the Big Mo, serious discussion of such an arrangement is unlikely unless and until the results on March 4 make it apparent that we still have a stalemate. At the same time, notwithstanding the dearth of daylight between the candidates on policy or any history of personal animosity prior to the commencement of the campaign, the sheer ferocity of the conflict by that point, in the words of Donna Brazile, may make a “dream...
...shot the A-bomb tests of the 1950s and stories on autism and education, but Allan Grant, a staff photographer for LIFE magazine from the '40s through the '60s, made his name capturing stars. The dashing Grant caught Howard Hughes flying his Spruce Goose in 1947, Richard Nixon atop his house during the 1961 Brentwood-Bel Air fire and the last pictures of Marilyn Monroe alive (shown above). Grant...
...Academy's genre snobbery. Crime movies (later known as film noir) had a dark glory, a stinging postwar fatalism, but flew under the Academy's radar and beneath its contempt. Of the hundreds of westerns in the '50s, some were superb, like Ford's The Searchers and Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo, but even those A-list directors could not interest Oscar in their oaters--zero nominations for those two great films-- or in John Wayne's towering performances in them...
...Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson agreed, telling the New York Times that "there is no evidence that voters are voting based on momentum...