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...numbers: scope. The small gains that Obama made in the battleground states targeted by his religious outreach staff were the results of just six weeks of activity leading up to the election. At the beginning of the summer, after Obama clinched the Democratic nomination, his campaign announced an ambitious plan to engage young religious voters at Christian music festivals, at house parties, and through Evangelical and Catholic surrogates. But by the time fall arrived, the effort - originally called the Joshua Generation - had still not materialized. Finally, in the last week of September, the campaign set up a speaking tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama: Bringing (Some) Evangelicals In | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...money the gay side raised is surprising for two reasons: first, the cash-Hoover known as the Obama campaign was sucking down millions of dollars a day from the nation's liberals. Many gays expected it to be difficult to raise money to fight Proposition 8 and its plan to outlaw same-sex marriage from Democrats eager to give to Obama and to the outside 527 groups supporting him. As recently as August, one of the nation's top gay political givers told me that he expected the gay side to raise no more than $25 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Gay Marriage Was Defeated in California | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...This is surely the plan for McCain. He has failed in achieving his life's ambition. But there is little doubt that he will carry on as forcefully as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Defeat, McCain Offers Graceful End to Rough Campaign | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...Carolina party chair Katon Dawson, a probable candidate for the national chairmanship, will be hosting a meeting of state leaders in Myrtle Beach later this month. Republican governors, a group that includes such potential 2012 presidential candidates as Sanford, Utah's Jon Huntsman Jr. and Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, plan to meet in Florida. Social conservatives, a faction that Mike Huckabee is positioning himself to lead, were scheduled to caucus in Virginia. No one is quite sure yet whether Palin will become the darling of one of these armies or simply the new Dan Quayle. Luckily for Republicans, the Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The GOP Fallout: Cue the Circular Firing Squad | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...Catholicism. Co-conspirators Robert Catesby, Thomas Winter, Thomas Percy and John Wright enlisted Fawkes as a ringer, reasoning that his military skills - he had participated in the 1595 capture of Calais, France - and his anonymity as a foreign soldier made him an ideal candidate to help execute their plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guy Fawkes Day | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

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