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...study for the Brookings Institution, visiting fellow Ruy Teixeira and Emory University political-science professor Alan Abramowitz argue that the test for Democrats is not whether they can win working-class whites outright but whether they can hold their losses among these voters to 10 percentage points or less. In 2000 Al Gore lost them to George W. Bush by 17 percentage points; four years later, John Kerry lost them by 23 points. By contrast, Democratic candidates in the 2006 midterm elections ran 10 percentage points behind Republicans among working-class whites--and managed to win back the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Bitter Lesson | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...Defined by education, a central determinant of a worker's economic life, to include all whites with less than a four-year college degree. Source: Ruy Teixeira, Brookings Institution

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Bitter Lesson | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...these groups, it barely made a dent. But if Obama does--and with Hispanics trending hard toward the Democrats, he probably will--he'll get a much bigger boost. The other half of Obama's coalition--college-educated whites--has also been growing fast. As John Judis and Ruy Teixeira noted in their prescient 2002 book, The Emerging Democratic Majority, professionals now make up almost 20% of the American workforce, far more than in 1972. This fall, for the first time in memory, blue-collar whites may not constitute a majority at the polls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Courting Joe Six-Pack | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...pitched their candidates in a debate held in Sever Hall last night. Bucking the national trend, Rep. Ron Paul (R.-Texas) drew the greatest support. Of the roughly thirty students in attendance, half were cheering for the libertarian congressman. The chair of Harvard Students for Ron Paul, Pedro L. Teixeira Jr. '09 drew sustained applause when he defended Paul against charges from opponents that he was a radical. “Apparently being too radical means you're in favor of obeying the Constitution, you're for the rule of law, and you're for following the Founding Fathers," Teixeira...

Author: By Max J Kornblith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Republican Students Lead Mock Debate | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...said. Assistant Professor of Medicine Joia Mukherjee emphasized the role of the Brazilian government, and specifically the universal healthcare and free antiretroviral drugs it provides. “Brazil was twenty years ahead of where most places are today,” she said. Paulo R. Teixeira, former director of the national STD/AIDS program of the Brazilian Ministry of Health, said that although the government was pleased with the low rate of infection, it recognized the price tag that comes with increased life expectancy of those using antiretrovirals. “We need to take some strategic and political decisions...

Author: By Jessica A. Estep, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Univ. Helps Brazil Slow AIDS Rates | 3/23/2007 | See Source »

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