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...thousands of working-class and poor citizens obtain home loans, register to vote and fight for better wages. The Arkansas-based organization now has hundreds of affiliates in 41 states and claims to have registered 1.3 million people to vote in the 2008 election. Although the group is technically nonpartisan, its registration drives focus on impoverished minorities, most of whom are likely to vote Democratic, and the organization regularly endorses Democratic political candidates, including Barack Obama...
...latest evidence is the decision by two of the country's largest philanthropies to stop funding Ed in '08, a nonpartisan campaign created to make improving education a top priority in the 2008 presidential race. When Ed in '08 launched 16 months ago, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Los Angeles-based Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation promised $60 million to finance the single-issue project. Now, however, $24 million into the campaign, both organizations have decided to pull the plug...
...Boston’s Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) was going to turn into Pop Up Debate and ruin the electoral process for me forever. The ICA billed the event as “a live remix of the first presidential debate, morphing words and images into a nonpartisan spectacle of light and sound,” which was not at all appealing to my scarred psyche.Little did I know what I was in for. The evening was helmed by the Boston A/V DJ trio Sosolimited, whose original software transformed the debate into a spectacular of technical punditry. Using...
...point lead in national polls - his first in the general election - which he'd built on the back of his successful convention and pick of Sarah Palin as his running mate. He now trails Obama by 6 percentage points, according to an average of national polls by the nonpartisan website RealClearPolitics, and the focus of the campaign has shifted from character and even national security to little else but the economy...
...according to income and family status, for individuals to buy into a government-supervised group of private insurance plans. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Wyden proposal would eventually be revenue-neutral (that is, it wouldn't cost any additional money). According to health-insurance experts at the nonpartisan Lewin Group, it would save money for those making less than $150,000 per year. "It sounds good, but it's really hard to pass anything this complicated," Kamarck warns. "You tell people you're going to take their employer-provided health insurance away, and they'll rip your guts...