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...hardly unusual for Bill Clinton to spend Sunday mornings making the rounds at black churches in primary states. But the Sunday before Hillary Clinton's squeaker victory in Texas found her husband ensconced with daughter Chelsea at Joel Osteen's Houston megachurch, which is white, black and Latino. Why the change in venues? Polls by the progressive group Faith in Public Life show that Hillary has support among white Evangelical Democrats, winning them 57% to 35% over Barack Obama in Ohio, for example. The former President didn't address Osteen's congregation, but the preacher acknowledged him from the pulpit...
...force when she was First Lady. It was one of more than 30 negative campaign commercials run against Democratic candidates in which Clinton played a co-starring role, according to the research firm TNS Media Intelligence. "The opposition did research in my district," says Altmire, who won in a squeaker and is not endorsing a candidate. "You can imagine what they might do next cycle...
...everyone else. This time, he's vowing to veto the Water Resources Development Act, a wildly popular collection of 940 Army Corps of Engineers projects, including $3.5 billion for post-Katrina Louisiana and $2 billion for the Florida Everglades. The House passed it Wednesday night in a 381-40 squeaker, and the Senate vote should be similar; archliberal Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Barbara Boxer of California and archconservative ranking Republican James Inhofe of Oklahoma can't agree on the color of the sky, but they're both pledging to override a veto...
...Team of Destiny,” went on to win the national championship after downing the Crimson, 10-3. This year, it was the Ivy title at stake, and in front of 16,284 partisans at Princeton Stadium, the Tigers scored late to take a 31-28 squeaker. Trailing 24-14 at the break, the Crimson roared back in the third quarter, scoring on a touchdown plunge by senior running back Clifton Dawson on the opening drive. Junior quarterback Liam O’Hagan then connected with junior Corey Mazza for a 15-yard touchdown that gave Harvard...
...Smoke and mirrors, scoff the Democrats, who believe they are riding a broad and ferocious wave that all but guarantees that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California will be Speaker, and not in a squeaker: "1 Day to Victory!" says the Web page of the Democratic Congressional Committee...