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...This is the endgame of the endgame. Checkmate already happened on the 29th of March.' TENDAI BITI, secretary general of Zimbabwe's main opposition party, saying its presidential candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai, would not take part in a runoff election against President Robert Mugabe because Tsvangirai won the March election outright...
...study for the Brookings Institution, visiting fellow Ruy Teixeira and Emory University political-science professor Alan Abramowitz argue that the test for Democrats is not whether they can win working-class whites outright but whether they can hold their losses among these voters to 10 percentage points or less. In 2000 Al Gore lost them to George W. Bush by 17 percentage points; four years later, John Kerry lost them by 23 points. By contrast, Democratic candidates in the 2006 midterm elections ran 10 percentage points behind Republicans among working-class whites--and managed to win back the House...
...This is the endgame of the endgame. Checkmate already happened on the 29th of March.' TENDAI BITI, secretary-general of Zimbabwe's main opposition party, saying it would not take part in a runoff election because its presidential candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai, beat President Robert Mugabe outright in the March contest...
...Runner” gets complicated. Isn’t it part of American values to be self-made? Aren’t people fibbing and embellishing their own accomplishments all around us all of the time? So where does a person draw the line between creating a persona and outright lying? These questions that Samuels raises are not easily answered and Samuels doggedly pursues them throughout his reconstruction of Hogue’s story. Samuels has no fear presenting the darker aspects of our culture to us, declaring, “Christmas is a child’s first introduction...
...America's vigorous piety, which he has said is partially a result of the First Amendment's leveling the religious playing field and ensuring competitive vigor by forbidding the government to pick an "established" church. The Pope has called it a "positive secularism," in contrast to what he considers outright government hostility to religion in Europe. He expressed this admiration to President Bush this morning. But in front of his bishops, for the first time, Benedict gave vent to an idea that he has usually presented only as a brief, if dark, caveat: that it is not enough for Americans...