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...Robertson has many credits to his name: he's the founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) and host of its long-running show, The 700 Club; he's the chancellor of Regent University; and he's a onetime presidential candidate who challenged George H.W. Bush for the Republican nomination in 1988. Now Robertson has added another title: financial adviser. His latest book, Right on the Money: Financial Advice for Tough Times, draws on his own experiences and makes straightforward recommendations for financial planning amid economic turmoil. He talked to TIME about money, religion and politics...
...news for an already beleaguered Republican Party. Just five years ago, the GOP thought it had begun a conquest of the Hispanic vote, but it saw its share of that electorate plunge 13 points in last year's presidential election, when Obama persuaded Hispanics that they could trust a liberal black candidate to champion their interests after...
...immigration current and the failing economy, alienated those Latino voters almost as quickly as it had gained them. That allowed Obama's 2008 campaign to build common ground with Hispanics on issues like health care; in the end, he even took the Latino vote in Florida, a once reliable Republican bloc...
...through the Senate confirmation process twice before - as George H.W. Bush's nominee to the Southern District Court of New York in 1992 and Bill Clinton's to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1998. The White House official notes that Orrin Hatch - the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee as well as the chamber's most influential GOP voice on judicial nominations - voted for Sotomayor both times. (See TIME's photo-essay on Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination...
...Constitution. Earlier Tuesday, a senior adviser to the President told TIME, "What the President told us afterward was that he was very struck by her discussion of her approach to judging, how effective she has been in working with her colleagues on the Second Circuit, including colleagues appointed by Republican Presidents, and how her judicial craftsmanship and precision in the law can be effective in bridging ideological differences and producing consensus opinions." (See a graphic of Obama's first 100 days in office...