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...TIME poll asked voters whether they "personally know anyone who is more likely" - or less likely - "to vote for Obama because of his race." Again, most people said no, but this time the margin was narrower. Forty-four percent said they knew someone who would be less likely to vote for Obama, while 38% said Obama's race would be a plus for someone they knew...
...campaigns. These are the people charged with finding and persuading voters who might support their candidate, and then making sure they actually show up at the polls. A good ground operation might mean just an additional percentage point or two on Election Day, but in a close race, that margin could easily be the difference between winning and losing. Obama campaign manager David Plouffe calls his ground operation the "field goal unit," and it was one of the big reasons the Illinois Senator bested Hillary Clinton in the primaries. But Obama's team has yet to be tested against...
...rebound? Certainly not from any significant easing in credit markets, where most measures of banks' unwillingness to lend to each other remained off the charts. And yet the late-afternoon sell-off that investors had come to expect - from hedge funds and other investors freeing up cash to make margin calls and pay clients wanting to withdraw money - didn't come. Instead, around 3 p.m., indexes began to rise...
...governments would temper that fear of lending. There's a moral hazard here, too, in that a guarantee might tempt banks to get too risky again, but most experts say that hazard can be handled by forcing the banks to put up some of their own capital as margin. At the same time, depositors need to be assured that their money is safe. That's why the FDIC moved to temporarily raise the insurance limit on savings accounts from $100,000 to $250,000. Ireland and England have made similar guarantees...
...Earlier this week, a pro-gay group called the Courage Campaign sent supporters an e-mail noting that both an internal poll undertaken by those who support same-sex marriage and another by a San Francisco TV station show that Californians now favor ending same-sex marriage by a margin of 47-42, a reversal from just a few weeks ago. (Read "Why Gay Marriage Was Defeated in California...