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...northern and largely white; the new states to be added are intended to broaden the field and bring Hispanics and blacks into the process. Once reliably Republican, the Southwest is increasingly becoming a bloc of swing states, crucial to Democratic hopes for the White House. Officially, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada are all in the running for the Sun Belt spot, but the last two are most favored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Hampshire, Watch Your Back | 7/12/2006 | See Source »

ELECTED. Katharine Jefferts Schori, 52, theologically liberal Episcopal bishop of Nevada; as Presiding Bishop of the 2.3 million-member Episcopal Church of the U.S.A., becoming the first woman to lead a province of the global Anglican Communion; in Columbus, Ohio. Citing her support of the 2003 consecration of openly gay New Hampshire Bishop V. Gene Robinson, conservatives predicted she would further alienate the U.S. church--which 30 years ago made history by ordaining women--from Anglicanism's more traditional branches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 3, 2006 | 6/25/2006 | See Source »

...this month in a Washington version of hell. The two reigning Democratic policy wonks on defense issues led a series of meetings with seven other Senate Democrats in search of a unified plan to get U.S. troops out of Iraq. Two of the participants were Harry Reid of Nevada and Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Democrat's leaders in the Senate. The other five are all eyeing a run for President in 2008. Getting Democrats to agree on anything to do with Iraq these days is hard enough. Getting Presidential competitors to do it? Not likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats' Disarray on Iraq | 6/20/2006 | See Source »

...course. The Democrats might have been safer just staying away from an issue that is hurting Republicans plenty without their help. But the Democrats have decided they need to carve out a defensible position on Iraq going into mid-term elections this fall - which is why Reid of Nevada convened the meetings to begin with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats' Disarray on Iraq | 6/20/2006 | See Source »

...site claims to get more than 500,000 unique visitors daily, and more than 10,000 members maintain their own sub-blogs (called "diaries") within its reaches. On Thursday, almost a thousand of these loyal readers and contributors - along with Wesley Clark, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and former Virginia governor and potential '08 contender Mark Warner - will gather in Las Vegas for a pep rally-cum-political conference, "Yearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Cult of Kos | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

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