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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...
...march on Castle Washington carrying pitchforks and Frankenstein torches. While early--and therefore shaky--polls may show a close race for President, the Republican vs. Democrat numbers look bleak for McCain. To win, he will need as many as 1 out of 5 of his voters to be a ticket splitter: someone who will vote Democratic for the House and Senate but pull the lever for McCain before leaving the booth. McCain will get some of those votes for free in the South, but the rest he will have to earn...
Minneapolis is McCain's great chance to define himself to these folks. Ticket splitters eschew partisanship. They don't trust any one party to have all the power. They are happy with divided government, so long as that government can deliver results. The convention's hammering on Obama should be targeted at these voters and portray Obama as an unapologetic liberal who will team up with congressional Democrats to put Washington on a runaway train of pent-up left-wing legislative appetites. That will surely cause moderate ticket splitters to think twice about a President Obama. But the vital issue...
...convention must trumpet his peerless credentials as a reformer. He must engage passionately on middle-class economic issues. McCain's comfort zone may be world affairs, but if he cannot hold his own in a kitchen-table debate with Obama on jobs, schools and health care, he'll visit ticket-splitting kitchens once more on Election Day, but this time as toast. Finally, he must give the convention speech of a lifetime...
...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...