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...best, most riveting election campaign I have witnessed as an adult [May 5]. I'm 56. Never before have I seen a primary campaign come down to the wire like this year's Democratic contest. Back in January I was hoping for the same thing on the Republican side. Sure, hard-fought contests are bruising for all concerned, but I believe the nation will be better off next January because of the election fights that took place this year. Now if only we could shorten the campaign season. Dave Peterson, TUCSON, ARIZ...
...Lieberman was back at work in the Senate. "It was very important to me to come right back to work, I think it was my nature, but I think it was a lot of people's nature," Lieberman said, standing just off the Senate floor last week as his Republican colleague Bob Bennett happened to pass...
...made the adjustment in about 30 seconds. There're some who had a little bit more difficulty coming back," said Bennett, a Republican who represents Utah. Looking archly at Hillary Clinton, just steps away, he added: "There're some still walking around like President in exile...
...change that, says Andrew Koppelman, the John Paul Stevens Professor of Law at Northwestern University. In anchoring its ruling on sweeping new equal rights protections for gays, the court opted for boldness. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times published Sunday, Chief Justice Ronald M. George, a moderate Republican, said he came to see the struggle of gay Americans in a light similar to the long struggle by African-Americans for equality under the law. "I think," he told the paper, "there are times when doing the right thing means not playing it safe...
Puerto Rico won't be a swing state in November. It's not even a state, and its 4 million residents aren't allowed to vote in the general election. Its partisan politics have little in common with the mainland's; the main competitors are not Democrats and Republicans, but "commonwealthers" and "statehooders," and while they are divided into reds and blues, the reds of the commonwealth party are more likely to favor Democrats, while the blues of the statehood party skew more Republican. Puerto Rico residents do serve in the U.S. military, but they do not pay U.S. income...