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...Polynesian families, there is tremendous pressure on the eldest son especially to become a bread winner," says David Lakisa, the NSWRL's Pacific coaching and development officer. "They're using league as their meal ticket." Twelve years after his family left New Zealand for Sydney's west, both Willie Isa's parents work in factories to support their four children. "I want to ease their workload," says Isa, who aims to secure an NRL contract within two years. Says team-mate Penese: "Family comes first for me. Dad's been a taxi driver since we got here [16 years...
...city is heavily Catholic, and in a recent Quinnipiac poll Obama trailed McCain statewide among Catholic voters, 36% to 51%. Obama also trailed McCain among all voters in northeastern Pennsylvania (39% to 50%). The pollsters, however, began conducting the poll before Obama put Biden, a Catholic, on the ticket. Doherty, a Democrat, says he's hopeful Obama can win over people in Scranton if he follows Hillary Clinton's model. She visited the city "at least eight times" before the primary vote, he points out. Obama "should come to Scranton and walk the rope line and let people...
Well-rested with his typically impeccable coif, Mitt Romney is back on center stage. Fresh from a ten-day vacation at the Beijing Olympics, the former Massachusetts governor barreled through Denver Tuesday, crashing the Democratic convention with a barbed audition for his possible spot on the McCain ticket...
...Romney is widely considered to be on a short list of possible vice presidential candidates for McCain, though the campaign has remained tight-lipped about its final decision, and even if it has been made. He said he has had no conversations with McCain about serving on the ticket, though he declined to comment further. He also dodged questions about the criticism he still attracts from Mike Huckabee, another of his primary season rivals who has argued in public that Romney could be a divisive pick for the Republican party. When asked the gotcha question of how many houses...
...Democrats, in anticipation of Romney's appointment to the McCain ticket, have been sending out releases attacking the former governor as "one of President Bush's biggest defenders" who is out of touch with working people. On Monday, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe called Romney a "job killer" for his work in the private sector as a corporate manager. Romney responded to the charge by claiming that he had created far more jobs than he ever eliminated...