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Just over half of those polled said they are registered Democrats—and slightly over half identified themselves as liberal. Among the 27 percent who called themselves independent, Obama was still comfortably ahead—with 78 percent registering their intent to vote for the Democratic candidate.
Gays may see the cabinet as powerful, almost numinous, but its own members see themselves as largely unorganized and highly independent. "It's a group of people who like and respect each other and their opinions," Ray Mulliner, a longtime Hormel adviser, told me recently. "It's nothing more than...
This could be an early test for President Obama (it would be an impossible task for President McCain, given the Democratic enmity should he win). Will Obama be able to convince his party's leaders that the economic situation is so dire, and the public's opinion of Congress so...
"For reasons known only to these contributors, the traditionally Republican defense sector is supporting a Democratic presidential candidate who may be bad for business," says Massie Ritsch of the independent Center for Responsive Politics, which came up with the numbers after analyzing Federal Election Commission data for the 2008 election...
"This reform cedes great chunks of our territory to foreign companies," Lopez Obrador told Congress on Tuesday, just before the final vote on the law. "Mexico should go on being a free, independent and sovereign country. We do not want to become a colony."