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HILLARY CLINTON Win suburban women as well as older, rural and Catholic voters; leverage family roots around Scranton; win the white working class...
...delegates hailed from Precinct 110, a suburban, middle- to upper-middle-class neighborhood in northwest Austin, just a stone's throw from Dell Computer and other Austin high-tech companies. In so many ways, the group was a mirror of Austin - a multicultural mix of whites, Asians, African Americans and Hispanics, immigrant and native-born, young men and middle-aged single women, a guy with a ponytail, a woman with a Caribbean accent, an Arab-American precinct chairman, a graphic designer, a teacher-cum-soccer mom, an entrepreneur, a real estate company owner. All of them were participating in their...
Woody Mosby, a 59-year-old semi-retired architect, got to know the concrete corridor between Dunkin' Donuts and tracks 1 & 2 of Philadelphia's Suburban train station really well this Easter weekend. Mosby was registering voters on behalf of Barack Obama, and by his count he'd gotten more than 130 forms filled out by Monday afternoon. "The deadline's today, register to vote!" Mosby, in an Oxford shirt and slacks, shouted over a flutist - a lifelong Republican Mosby had already converted - busking nearby. When people stopped he not only offered help filling out their forms, he gave them...
...which the passport file of then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton, dating back to the 1960s, was suspected of having been tampered with. During that campaign, there was much speculation regarding Clinton's activities and travels around the time of the Vietnam War. A clerk in a records warehouse in suburban Maryland discovered staple holes on copies of his passport applications and became concerned that part of the file was missing. The Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted an inquiry, but found what it said was "no evidence that tampering had occurred...
...that among the weeping queens, strutting kings and ego-deflating jokers in his pack, he does play the race card. But he's dealing it to fellow blacks, and if enough of them didn't love it, he couldn't have afforded the lavish new house he built in suburban Atlanta. You could also ask if Perry is mocking the folks he hopes to uplift. But his form of comic melodrama depends on creating emotional extremes, acute cartoons of recognizable behavior, people who hurt and get hurt. Public humiliation is the penance his stage characters must endure before they...