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...Crist's bipartisan agenda was an antidote for a state exhausted by partisan ugliness like the 2000 recount and the Terri Schiavo spectacle of 2005, and it's why half or more of Floridians still give him a thumbs-up in polls this year despite the economic disaster and his own difficulties reining in Florida's exorbitant property taxes and insurance premiums. "That reach-across-the-aisle character was the same thing John McCain was identified with" when Crist supported McCain in the January primary, notes Crist's former chief of staff, George LeMieux...
...life. David Grain, 46, an African-American Democrat and the millionaire founder of Grain Communications, is a top fund raiser for Obama but also for Sarasota GOP congressional incumbent Vern Buchanan. "The whole party arrangement has gotten very old and stale for people like me," says Grain. Consequently, hyper-partisan campaigning has become a turnoff for a growing number of Floridians of all political stripes. Or, as Sarasota Democratic Party Chairman Rita Ferrandino puts it, Obama may be drawing local Republicans to his camp because he "reminds people of Crist more than McCain does...
...kick off its new green-house gas reduction commitment, the Environmental Action Committee (EAC) is kicking off a campaign of its own—one that revolves around 1,500 little green cards. The EAC chose well to devote time and energy to Power Vote, a national non-partisan effort that promises to tangible results in the fight to protect our planet. Power Vote’s goal to elevate environmental issues in the upcoming election, to be achieved by mobilizing young voters, is naturally a positive one. And the methods to be used are even better. Youth volunteers both...
...stage, and especially the Middle East, did not believe in our pledge of democracy. In fact, according to Traub, they found it laughable. But though the title of Traub’s book makes it seem like little more than an anti-Bush diatribe, his attack is not a partisan one. While Traub believes Bush’s “Freedom Agenda” to be both naïve and dangerous, he also affirms the Wilsonian ideals that inspired the President. Traub clearly believes that it is important for democracy to spread; it is a matter of methods...
...prose - imagine Sam Spade in the Holy Land - Burleigh tracks her story through the twilight world of Arab grave robbers and smugglers to the glimmering salon of a billionaire collector in Mayfair whose mission, writes Burleigh, is "proving the Bible true." Past accounts of the James ossuary are fiercely partisan, written by debunkers or true believers. But Burleigh keeps her balance, and her humor, as she sifts - far more diligently than many archaeologists - through the evidence. She also has unprecedented access to all the major players in the James ossuary debate: dogged police detectives, sharp-witted antiquarians, Bible-besotted collectors...