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...polls told a different story. While San Francisco’s latte-sipping hipsters certainly voted for the ban, so did conservative family farmers across the state anxious to stop the encroachment of polluting factory farms. In Kern and Shasta counties, both places with rural populations where John McCain won the vote by a large margin, Proposition Two also enjoyed majority support...
...Despite a promise from the incumbent, President George W. Bush, that Obama could "count on complete cooperation from my Administration as he makes the transition to the White House," the next ten weeks mark a challenge that has frustrated many a President. John F. Kennedy, for example, didn't even have his predecessor's encouragement: when he took over the reins from Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower failed to take action on several issues toward the end of his presidency that would have made Kennedy's transition easier. Eisenhower's final term and subsequent exit from office have left a legacy...
Both Obama and John McCain started early; like their predecessors, they made sure their transition staffs (and, in Obama's case, a corresponding website) were up and running well before Nov. 5. Obama has already received an acceptance from Democratic Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois to be his chief of staff. Bill Clinton spent a month pondering his decision in 1992, finally settling on his lifelong friend, genial gas company executive Thomas F. McLarty III, a choice that bewildered many Clinton associates who doubted McLarty had the tenacity for the job. Two years into his first term, McLarty was forced...
...Rahm smelled blood. He latched on like a pit bull and never let go." - Chuck Fant, press secretary for Representative John M. Spratt Jr. of South Carolina, on Emanuel's decision to attack the Bush administration for letting an Arab company manage U.S. Ports (L.A. Times, July...
...stands, moderates and conservatives alike predict that Ohio Republican John Boehner is likely to stay in charge on the strength of his handling of the bailout rebellion in September and the drilling fight over the summer. Majority leader Roy Blunt, long the object of complaint among party foot soldiers, announced Thursday that he would step down, a day after the party's No. 3, Adam Putnam, did the same...