Word: mccains
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...polls told a different story. While San Francisco’s latte-sipping hipsters certainly voted for the ban, so did conservative family farmers across the state anxious to stop the encroachment of polluting factory farms. In Kern and Shasta counties, both places with rural populations where John McCain won the vote by a large margin, Proposition Two also enjoyed majority support...
Both Obama and John McCain started early; like their predecessors, they made sure their transition staffs (and, in Obama's case, a corresponding website) were up and running well before Nov. 5. Obama has already received an acceptance from Democratic Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois to be his chief of staff. Bill Clinton spent a month pondering his decision in 1992, finally settling on his lifelong friend, genial gas company executive Thomas F. McLarty III, a choice that bewildered many Clinton associates who doubted McLarty had the tenacity for the job. Two years into his first term, McLarty was forced...
...first tests of whether that new spirit will prevail in Washington may be how Senate Democrats deal with Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut Senator who crossed the aisle to support John McCain in the election. During the campaign, Lieberman angered many in his longtime party by attacking Obama's experience and leadership (and occasionally even calling into question his patriotism). "Senator Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead," Lieberman said in a speech at the Republican National Convention. "But eloquence is no substitute for a record...
...Iraq and other security issues, are perfectly in line with the Democrats. "Given his voting record other than national security, I can't imagine his being welcomed with open arms by the Republicans," says Thomas Mann, a congressional scholar at the Brookings Institution. "Maybe he and John McCain will start a new party in the Senate." (See pictures of John McCain's campaign farewell...
...final weeks of the campaign, as Obama widened his lead over McCain, Lieberman was careful to tone down his rhetoric and attacks on the Democratic nominee. "Everybody seems to agree that we need a new kind of government in Washington that breaks across party lines, right? That gets things done," Lieberman told a crowd in Peterborough, N.H., on Sunday night, wearing his "lucky" red sweater that he sported when he endorsed McCain last December. "I want to present myself immodestly as Exhibit A. I'm a Democrat, re-elected as an Independent, here to support the Republican candidate." And when...