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Des Moines Register •overt hostility of McCain to questions by editors of
Iowa Joyce Carle, 65, of Des Moines retired from the U.S. Postal Service after 25 years. But when the Paulson proposal came up, she immediately wrote a letter to the local paper to voice her opposition. "A $700 billion bailout I feel is going to my grandchildren. They're going...
Still, the market collapse on the same day that the vote came down concerned her. "I've got money in the market, and I don't want to lose my money. [My husband and I are] retired, and I really don't want to go back to work - but if...
- With reporting by Christopher Maag / Cleveland; Betsy Rubiner / Des Moines, Iowa; Caitlin Sullivan / Troutdale, Va.; and Joseph R. Szczesny / Warren, Mich. (See a collection of Sarah Palin photos here.)
She is, in short, a woman who might have a few things in common with Lori Stern, an administrative assistant in Des Moines, Iowa, who lost her second job at a coffee shop when it closed. Stern went to her state's Republican caucuses in January, listened and left without...