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...President, Senator Obama would work in consultation with our military leaders to submit legislation to Congress repealing 'Don't ask, don't tell' and advocate for its passage." The trouble is, while the long legislative process of repealing the law unspools, many gays in the military will almost certainly lose their jobs. Because the military is fighting two wars, commanders discharge only about 600 bisexuals, gays and lesbians each year, down from about 1,200 a year in the late '90s. But repealing "Don't ask, don't tell" could take a year or more...
Jobs Program a Dud According to a Labor Department report, retraining workers who lose manufacturing jobs is not so easy as originally thought. An evaluation of the government job-training program for workers hurt by foreign trade found that only 1 in 5 retrained workers landed jobs paying at least 80% as much as their former jobs...
...party democracy, the P.R.I. has never lost a presidential or gubernatorial election. That could soon change. The conservative, probusiness National Action Party has shown considerable strength in Chihuahua, the country's largest state, where elections will be held early next month. Many Mexicans suspect that the P.R.I. may lose the gubernatorial race--or win only by tampering with the results. In the present climate of unease, either outcome could prove incendiary. Small wonder that some P.R.I. officials are now reciting a gloomy slogan: ''We may win Chihuahua but still lose the country...
...hold," this analyst said. "It doesn't mean he can't win them over eventually. But it reminded them that he might be just another politician, not the magical, inspirational, agent of change they had been hearing about. And if he keeps that sort of thing up, he will lose them for good...
...McCain, by contrast, stood firm - and alone. When asked about the war, he tried to turn the obvious political liability into a personal strength, a statement of character more than policy. "I would rather lose an election than lose a war," went his catchphrase. The strategy worked well in the primaries, among a mostly Republican electorate. But it did not give McCain the ability to escape the gravitational pull of the general election. Just a couple of months after winning the Republican nomination, McCain laid out his vision for a light at the end of the tunnel...