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...increased Democratic scrutiny-and possibly a confirmation-halting filibuster-after the discovery of a 20-year-old Reagan White House job application documenting his specific political opinions. Colorado Democratic Senator Ken Salazar said Alito's objection to a constitutionally recognized right to abortion could force Democrats to block him. Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) lambasted Alito's position on a landmark 1962 Supreme Court case that made states judicially accountable for drawing accurate voting districts...
...also identified the 18-24 demographic as particularly religious, with more than one-third of respondents identifying as born-again Christians. “Religious affiliation is almost the best predictor of partisanship,” said Bill McInturff, who was a pollster for the 2000 presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. Other panelists included Diane Felsman, who worked as a pollster for the 2004 presidential campaign of Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., and John de la Volpe, who was the survey’s senior adviser. Krister B. Anderson ’07, the survey group?...
This is a possibility: in late 2004, Mass. State Sen. Jarrett T. Barrios ’90, D-Cambridge, introduced a bill that would force campus police departments to release crime reports...
...discouraging night for the White House. The other marquee contest was for Governor of New Jersey, where Sen. Jon S. Corzine, a Democrat, drubbed Republican benefits-management executive Doug Forrester. Across the Hudson, Republican Michael Bloomberg was easily reelected Mayor of New York City in a blowout of Democrat Fernando Ferrer...
...Republicans, the night offered two harsh lessons. One is that Virginia could be a growing crack in the party's hold on the South: Last fall, Sen. John F. Kerry carried the state's largest locality, Fairfax County, becoming the first Democratic presidential candidate to do so since Lyndon B. Johnson beat Barry Goldwater there in 1964. And Kaine made inroads in the exurbs, the growing, family-friendly communities beyond of suburbs that were a linchpin of Karl Rove's strategy for Bush's reelection...