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...winner this year was the free app Pandora, a streaming-music utility that allows users to create "customized" Internet radio stations. Since the launch of the Pandora app in July, the growth of the music site Pandora.com has "been insane," said Tim Westergren, Pandora's founder. "It doubled our growth rate the day we launched, and it's still growing." Westergren said nearly 2 million people have downloaded the iPhone...
...This time, all hell broke loose. Her proposal caught the attention of talk-radio juggernaut Rush Limbaugh, and over the next few weeks Limbaugh hammered on Ghilarducci's idea as a Democratic plot to kill the 401(k). "McCain has gotta tie Obama to these people," he said on the air. Republican presidential candidate John McCain did try, but only perfunctorily. It didn't help him much on Election...
...Georgia runoff, however, is one key political celebrity short - much to the detriment of Democratic challenger Jim Martin. President-elect Barack Obama did not make an appearance in Georgia. He did record a radio ad for Martin and robo-calls, but that's all. And now Democrats fear that the surge in black voters that made Martin competitive on Nov. 4 may not materialize on Dec. 2. "It may be that for some voters the real election was a few weeks ago and that this is just details," says Merle Black, a political science professor at Emory University. "Obama...
...pulling in 49.8% to Martin's 46.8%, and black Democrats who turned out in record numbers to support Obama didn't vote early for Martin in similar numbers. John McCain and Sarah Palin both returned to Georgia to campaign for Chambliss after winning the state; Obama just taped a radio ad for Martin, who had to rely on surrogates like Ludacris and REM's Michael Stipe to energize his base down the stretch. Chambliss vacuumed money from big donors as well as the Republican Party and the National Rifle Association; Martin did better with small donors and attracted a swarm...
...making money," he says. "But this time, the threat is too serious and too real ... Now we need change. We need to look beyond 'my life, my family, my business.' Someone's got to push this change, and it has to be us." As Ramanathan has been telling her radio listeners, "Start with getting your voter registration. Start by voting." Of course, it's precisely that expected backlash at the polls that politicians are positioning themselves to exploit...