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Wisconsin has long been known as liberal, but it almost went to Bush four years ago. Bush needs a big turnout in the conservative Milwaukee suburbs and eastern cities like Oshkosh and Green Bay. Kerry hopes for big numbers in Milwaukee, Madison and western farm towns. One X factor: congressional Republicans have opposed extending a subsidy for dairy farmers...
Washington was willing to refuse a crown, but he was exasperated by Thomas Jefferson's and James Madison's aversion to federal power. His experience during the war with Britain, when a rudderless Continental Congress left his army chronically short of supplies, convinced him of the need for a government strong enough to pursue national purposes. But as Ellis sees it, Washington's views were also "projections onto the national screen of the need for the same kind of controlling authority he had orchestrated within his own personality." The Father of His Country had first to prevail as master...
Legendary singer and songwriter Bob Dylan has performed at Martin Luther King, Jr.’s March on Washington, in Madison Square Garden, and in venues across the globe—a trail which will soon include Harvard’s Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis Center, according to several Bob Dylan websites...
...earlier this year, Tef found a new project. In March, he drove to a Hip Hop Summit in Madison, Wisconsin. The meeting, which was supposed to bring together rappers from across the country to encourage political consciousness, changed Tef’s priorities...
...always been somewhat politically oriented,” he says, “but [the Madison summit] inspired me to go hard with it.” After that event, Tef signed up with America Coming Together (ACT), a nonprofit working to elect John Kerry. Along with several musicians he has worked with, Tef has begun to help local groups reach out to African-American voters and to younger voters...