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CORRECTION: While Institute of Politics Director Jeanne Shaheen did say that young voters favored John F. Kerry by a double-digit margin in 2004, and while she did encourage young voters to go to the polls, she did not say that youth turnout would be important to a Democratic victory in 2006. The print and original online version of this article mischaracterized her remarks at the debate...
...order for Geraldo Alckmin, the candidate of the centrist Brazilian Social Democratic Party. Alckmin benefited when members of Lula's Workers' Party (PT) were caught trying to buy documents to smear electoral rivals. The scandal helped Alckmin eat into Lula's lead and deny him the 50%-plus-one margin needed to claim outright victory in the first round of voting, which gave Alckmin 41.6% to Lula's 48.6%. But that may be as good as it will get for the former governor of Sao Paulo state. Even after he took the offensive in televised debates with stinging attacks...
...Missouri, the issue of the moment is stem cell research, which women have come to support by a large margin over the last four years, according to the Pew Center for the Public and the Press. McCaskill aired a powerful ad during the first games of the World Series in which Michael J. Fox, who has Parkinson's and is visibly suffering from the symptoms, urged voters to support her. Rush Limbaugh initially accused Fox of skipping his medication or acting, and Talent's backers scrambled to put up a response ad (to air during Wednesday evening's Game Four...
...economics concentration is already the largest on campus with over 600 undergraduates. Not only that, but the social studies, environmental science and public policy, and government concentrations count it for concentration credit, which increases the number of economics students by a large margin. This fall, for example, 945 students are taking Ec 10. The bottom line: There is simply no danger of economics being understudied...
...Polls which weeks ago showed Corker with a double-digit lead over Ford now have Ford drawing even: a Wall Street Journal/Zogby poll released Thursday shows Corker leading 49.4% to Ford's 42%, but with a 3.3% margin of error, statistically that leaves the race too close to call...