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...representatives said that students are enthusiastic about the possibility of cable service. Charles T. James ’10, a UC representative from Leverett House, said that 60 percent of the students he surveyed listed cable television in dorms as one of their top three wishes for improvements in campus life...
Eighty-two percent of the 563 students that responded to The Crimson’s poll indicated that they intend to vote for Obama in the upcoming election, compared to 11 percent who favored Republican candidate John McCain...
Just over half of those polled said they are registered Democrats—and slightly over half identified themselves as liberal. Among the 27 percent who called themselves independent, Obama was still comfortably ahead—with 78 percent registering their intent to vote for the Democratic candidate...
...looked to the arts to restore the confidence of the American people in the depths of the Great Depression, because no matter what congressional Republicans say, art is cheap. The NEA didn’t exist until 1965, but in 1935, when the unemployment rate was over 20 percent, Roosevelt created over 40,000 government jobs for artists under the Works Progress Administration. In 1995, the year before the Congress’s massive blood-letting, the NEA’s budget represented just 0.01 percent of federal funds outlays...
...creation likewise initiates contention on liberal college campuses. The US has the second highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world at 39.3 percent. McCain plans to cut the corporate tax rate by 10 percent, encouraging businesses to hire more workers and remain in the US. Obama’s plans to raise the corporate tax rate would have the opposite effect; businesses would be forced to cut jobs and may choose to leave the US for a nation with lower taxes. Despite his recent rise to fame, Joe the Plumber may only have a future in Calcutta...