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Call them the show-me moms. They may be this political season's equivalent of the soccer moms or the NASCAR dads--a slice of the electorate that turns out to be vital to one party's triumph, or either's. This year strategists on both sides are focused on a small subset of females: white women over 55 in the South who were raised as Democrats but tend to be culturally conservative. The group eschews party loyalty in favor of candidates offering practical solutions to problems like education, security and health care and is "very critical," says...
...days were before-and-after snapshots of his Administration. The first day was what Bush probably expected his presidency would be when he was elected in 2001: a jaunt through North Carolina, visiting a magnet school and a wonderful camp for children with chronic diseases established by retired Nascar star Richard Petty, followed by the inevitable fund-raising dinner. That was George W. Bush as I had first known him, passionate and compassionate, a convincing advocate for the need to reauthorize his No Child Left Behind Act, which uses tests to make schools accountable for their performance. But when Bush...
...we’ve settled for this apathy easily. No, we spent most of freshman year traveling around the country, attending rally after rally, giving it all we had, making posters to express our opinions, and screaming at the top of our lungs for our favorites to win. But NASCAR got boring, and our moral compasses were left spinning more uncontrollably than Dale Earnhardt’s last ride. RIP #3. Now we’re stuck on a campus with 6,000 preppy cause-whores who choose their issues by matching their rubber wristbands to their candy-ass outfits...
...dreams aren't always easy to grant. "I've heard 'no' many, many times," says Thomas Rollerson, a former sales executive who founded Dream Foundation in 1994. NASCAR racer Jeff Gordon, for instance, frequently grants wishes to terminally ill children but seldom to dying adults. Rollerson acknowledges that granting children's wishes is more appealing to most companies. "Kids are irresistible, and understandably so," he says...
...Irish immigrant who worked as a servant for priests. In her later years she lived with us, and we would go to Mass together. She was barely literate, the seventh of 13 children. And she could rattle off the Hail Mary with the speed and subtlety of a NASCAR lap. There were times when she embarrassed me--with her broad Irish brogue and reflexive deference to clerical authority. Couldn't she genuflect a little less deeply and pray a little less loudly? And then, as I winced at her volume in my quiet church, I saw that she was utterly...