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Catholics were once one of the most reliable blocs for Democrats, but their voting patterns have become less predictable and more complex. Other denominations have taken clear sides in this election: Protestants favored President Bush by a 19-point margin in the TIME poll (55%-36%), and those who are neither Protestant nor Catholic gave Kerry an edge of more than 50 percentage points (73%-21%). Catholics divided nearly right down the middle: 45% for Kerry; 43% for Bush. Within those numbers, however, there was a subplot, one that echoes the overall polarization of the electorate. Among Catholics who consider...
...amiably conventional liberal, who ran on his amiably conventional record. Reagan spotted and exploited a new issue: middle-class discontent over disturbances at the University of California and over the disturbances of the 1960s in general. He vowed to "clean up the mess at Berkeley." He won by a margin of almost 1 million votes out of 6.5 million...
With “Believe in a Better Harvard,” the slogan used by proponents of the termbill hike, the council scored a minor victory by a 6 percent margin...
...look at past referendums at Harvard, the turnout and margin are unprecedented. I think that students who felt strongly—well over two thousand—turned out to vote and those who were more indifferent didn’t, but that’s the way democracy works,” he wrote in an e-mail...
...season when Stone expected the Crimson’s scoring margin to be one to two goals on average, the team posted a nation-best margin...