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...John McCain's campaign has been working overtime to ridicule Barack Obama as "the One," the rock-star celebrity with adoring fans, the politician with the chutzpah to announce his candidacy in a speech about Abraham Lincoln. So it was a bit surprising to watch the opening of McCain's town-hall meeting in York, Pa., on Tuesday...
...economic leadership. But ever since the wealthy Whig William Henry Harrison's brilliant "log cabin and hard cider" campaign, candidates have tried to strike an Everyman pose, and missteps that have made them look "out of touch" - like George H.W. Bush checking his watch during an economic debate, or John Kerry windsurfing off Nantucket, or even Bill Clinton of Hope, Ark., getting an expensive haircut - have created major political headaches...
...program, they said, or get out of the way. When first released, the songs were No. 1 R&B winners (Soul Man hit No. 2 on the pop charts), and they never did lose their power. In 1980 the sham-soul duo the Blues Brothers, a.k.a. Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, took Soul Man to No. 14. Those Hayes-and-Porter/Sam-&-Dave collaborations remain anthems for any guy who's had too many beers or is surrendering to the priapic imperative...
...these measures. Professor Kenneth Bickers, chair of the political science department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, predicts "a kind of 1930s style conflict between unions and management." Bad news for civility, but good news for Obama: In 2004, union members nationwide gave 61% of their vote to John Kerry. The more union voters turn out in Colorado, the better Obama will...
...Florida, four years later it was Ohio - could the decisive swing state in the 2008 presidential election be Colorado? Recent polls indicate that the question of whether the Centennial State's nine electoral college votes will go to Barack Obama or John McCain is too close to call. The state has become increasingly competitive over the past decade: President George W. Bush carried it by 9% in 2000, but four years later John Kerry slashed that margin almost in half...