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...scene may seem eerily familiar, especially since the rally was held in front of the very offices Barack Obama's campaign used last year in this northwest Virginia town. But the rally in Leesburg on Sunday was for the Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell; the speakers included attorney general nominee Ken Cuccinelli (the leader of the "Yes, we can" chant) and Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling ("Help is on the way"). And while the tone may have sounded reminiscent of Obama's stirring rallies of a year ago, the platform couldn't have been more conservative. "This has been a campaign...
...town hall is one of the UC’s efforts to become more connected with the student body this year, said UC Student Relations Commitee Chair Daniel V. Kroop...
Kroop said that non-UC students came to both the town hall and the launch party, which was a good sign...
...Windsor, N.J. Unless President Obama reinstates the draft tomorrow, my family’s day-to-day existence won’t change because of his relatively remote decisions. However, West Windsor Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh’s decision about the creation of a retail area around our town train station will directly influence day-to-day life in the place I go back to every Thanksgiving, Christmas, and summer...
...tone of the debate, the town halls, the "death panels," the tea parties - did you worry that things were becoming too extreme? I worried more that Congress wasn't listening to people who are very angry and frustrated. I thought that the smug, condescending attitude that many members of Congress had toward people who attended town halls was the very reason that the town halls were getting so much momentum. There is a tone deafness by members of Congress who breathe the rarified air of the Beltway and tend to think that they, in fact, are getting a full whiff...