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...Such local successes, engineered by the SNP, have helped the nationalist party win control of Scotland's regional parliament, and boosted its chances of winning a referendum on independence it has promised to hold by 2010. Andrew Welsh, the town's SNP representative in the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, has a copy of the Declaration of Arbroath on his wall and, if pushed, will wax lachrymose about great Scottish kings like "William the Lion" and "Scotland's right to rebel against tyranny." Yet, he's far more interested in explaining how he helped secure a new road linking Arbroath...
Last year Armstrong persuaded the advocate community in Texas to play nice in support of a referendum to spend $3 billion fighting cancer over the next 10 years. The passage of the proposal was a huge victory in a spend-wary state, and perhaps it was a model for others. The program makes cancer prevention and screening key components, which saves the state money in the long...
...Clinton really wants to give Obama a boost, he won't just try to re-litigate the 1990s. If this election were a referendum on the Clinton legacy, his wife would be preparing her acceptance speech instead of fielding praise for her endorsement speech. Tonight, the man who declared the end of the era of big government can make a more powerful statement by declaring the end of another era, his own era, an era of small politics. You could call it the Clinton-Bush era, an era of partisan war rooms and poll-tested spin and round-the-clock...
Quite often, though strangely not in Kerry's case, the referendum gambit is a rationale for mudslinging. This year we have John McCain's attempt to paint Obama as aloof, messianic ... a celebrity, like Paris or Britney. The McCain ads have the slightly sordid quality of an inside joke: Oprah Winfrey called Obama "the One," and McCain's dyspeptic staffers latched on to that moniker, and now there's a sardonic ad using the messianic nickname, filled with celestial images of Obama smiling and orating grandiloquently, followed by Charlton Heston parting the Red Sea. When Obama--correctly--said that keeping...
...attempts to dismiss Obama remind me of the Carter-Reagan matchup of 1980, another supposed referendum election. Ronald Reagan was ... a celebrity, a movie star, a right-wing lightweight. It seemed impossible--to most Democrats, at least--that he could win, although he did hold a slight lead going into the conventions. The fall campaign was very close--until, finally, the two candidates debated a week before the election, and the celebrity cleaned the President's clock. "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" Reagan asked in his closing statement. He seemed every bit as substantial...