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...events," says former Senator Bob Kerrey, who ran for the Democratic nomination in 1992. "You don't have to be there for people to feel that you are." But there will also be the caution of knowing that every stray utterance could end up on YouTube. "The margin for rhetorical errors is quite small today. Any slight misstep can be distributed in all 50 states simultaneously," Kerrey adds. "There will be less creativity in talking--and in thinking...
Hillary Clinton is the clear front-runner to win the Democratic Party's nomination for President in 2008, but the Republican race will be a close contest between Senator John McCain and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani - with McCain edging Giuliani by a three- to four-point margin. And a presidential face-off between Clinton and McCain, right now, would be close to a dead heat. Those are some of the key findings of a new TIME poll earlier this week that canvassed a random sample of 1,064 registered voters by phone...
...Despite the buzz generated by Senator Barack Obama entering the race, the survey found that Senator Clinton would beat him for the Democratic nomination by a margin of 40% to 21%. Senator John Edwards is a distant third with 11%. Obama clearly suffers a disadvantage in profile among likely voters, with only 51% indicating that they knew enough about him to form an opinion, compared with 94% saying the same of Hillary Clinton. In Obama's favor, however, is his far lower negative ratings. While 58% of voters familiar with Hillary Clinton have a positive view of her, 41% give...
...TIME: The polls currently show you firmly ahead of Labour, but not by a large enough margin to avoid a hung parliament, which means that every vote will count. The British press, particularly its tabloid newspapers and especially the Sun, are credited with influencing the outcome of previous elections. How important is it to you to win their endorsements...
...borrowing less and less for the past decade due to increasing scholarships,” said Donahue. The current interest rate on student loans was raised to 6.8 percent by Congress’s Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. That measure passed in the Republican-controlled House by a margin of 216 to 214 in a narrow partisan vote last February. This year’s initiative to cut the current rate was overwhelmingly supported by the House by a 356 to 71 margin. Suzanne Day, who handles Harvard’s federal relations in Washington, said that the Bush...