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...Democrat running for Congress, when she introduced Obama at a rally for Senator Russ Feingold in Milwaukee, Wis., on Oct. 9. By then, Obama45 points ahead of his opponent, Republican Alan Keyeswas spending much of his time campaigning for other politicians. On this bright Saturday morning in a swing state, Moore could be forgiven for getting carried away. "He's all of us! He's not black! He's not white! He's not, you know ...," she faltered in mid-sentence. "I was going to say, 'He's not male. He's not female,'" she said, laughing...
...will be tempted to do is indulge in the traditional orgy of recriminations over where the party went astray. A strikingly amorphous candidate, Kerry provides more than the usual fodder for Dems' eternal squabble over what they should stand for: moderates can claim Kerry was too liberal to woo swing voters; lefties will say he was too inside-the-Beltway to energize the angry, disillusioned masses; and the increasingly unbalanced Ralph Nader will declare him another loathsome Republicrat slave to corporate America...
...within a few months, Gonzales had eased into the swing of Harvard life. He and Karch donned white shirts and shorts and frequently played squash at Hemenway Gym. “I still resent him a bit because I taught him how to play squash...and he was such a good athlete that he just clobbered me every time we played for three years,” recalled Karch, who is now an attorney in Wisconsin...
...00–11:30 a.m.: Jacki’s day is in full swing! Michael has just left...
...painful lesson, but perhaps one we needed to learn, that we are not so jaded as we would fancy ourselves. We may be advocates of ironic detachment, but we are not entirely detached. In the hopeful, terrifying months leading up to this election, we canvassed, we telephoned voters in swing states, we taped signs up in our bedroom windows. We watched the debates. We wore pins. We argued about political issues with unselfconscious earnestness. But our greatest leap of faith was giving our hearts away to John Kerry with the ardor that remains, even in this irony-steeped era, both...