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This year, by contrast, the issues that once split the Democrats along race and class lines--the death penalty, welfare and affirmative action--have virtually disappeared. On foreign policy, blue-collar Dems have grown as tired of the Iraq war as have their upscale counterparts. And downscale white Democrats simply aren't as conservative as they were in the Archie Bunker days. During Vietnam, Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley--the quintessential lunch-pail Democrat--sent cops to bust the heads of hippie protesters. Today his son, Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, opposes the Iraq war, promotes environmentalism and marches...
...coach, but now there will also be an incentive should Harvard ever cross paths with Notre Dame. “If we meet at NCAA finals, I don’t know who his mother will support,” Bobby Clark joked. “He could split the family on that one.” —Robert T. Hamlin contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Alexandra J. Mihalek can be reached at amihalek@fas.harvard.edu...
...don’t like it at all,” Tosteson says of the impending split. “There are a number of people who are confused about what the intentions of the School are, and I think [Medical School Dean Jeffrey S. Flier] is aware of that...
...margin of about three to one in Wisconsin, Obama constructed a sturdy coalition of Democrats and independents that could reshuffle the race in Ohio and Texas. Exit polls suggested that Obama continued to make strides against what had been Clinton's last line of defense until recently; they split evenly among female voters, voters in union households, voters with no more than a high school education and voters making less than $50,000 a year, while Obama carried men and independents by a rate of almost three...
...least on paper, Ohio looks like a state that should work better for Clinton. It is a far more conservative state than Wisconsin, and lacks Wisconsin's deeply Progressive tradition. Its eight million voters are a stubbornly diverse mix of farmers, factory workers, and white-collar professionals split up among a half dozen large cities, a score of midsize towns and another 50-odd largely rural counties. The Northeast quarter of the state, which includes the old blast furnace towns of Cleveland, Akron and Youngstown, is a Democratic stronghold; the Southeast quarter that hugs the Ohio River...