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Since the Soviet Union collapsed 17 years ago, Washington in particular has deluded itself into believing that it was somehow a real competitor to Russia in the southern tier of the former Soviet Union - that is, the eight states that make up the Caucasus and the former Soviet Central Asia. Washington acted as if these states were truly independent and sovereign, immune from the influence of the old metropolitan center, Moscow. Washington deliberately ignored how Russia had held on to its military bases in the southern tier, how the successor to the KGB stayed more plugged into intelligence from...
...economy, but I'm undecided." He adds, "I don't like McCain. McCain is Bush, and we've already had this one, you know what I mean?" In the end, says Riehle, Obama retains a big advantage with true-blue Democrats over McCain, who is seen as anti-union, pro-free trade and supportive of Bush's fiscal policies...
...Terrorists are mobile and headed from all over to Iraq because the U.S. was there. Now Afghanistan is becoming the hotbed, and terrorists will flow there. The problem is that no foreign force, including the former Soviet Union, has ever been successful in Afghanistan. Could this be why the U.S. chose to fight terrorists in Iraq? Charles Langhorn, Auburn, Calif...
...Obama, however, could also get a boost from a constituency less than enthusiastic about his candidacy. Hesitancy over Obama among blue-collar and union voters might be neutralized by turnout to vote against a cluster of initiatives aimed at curbing the power of Colorado's unions. Amendment 47 would let workers opt out of joining a union; Initiative 59 bans unions that have collective-bargaining agreements with the state government from donating campaign cash. Angry union leaders have vowed to kills these measures. Professor Kenneth Bickers, chair of the political science department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, predicts...
...Democrat already has a leg up on McCain. According to a new Quinnipiac poll, Obama holds a ten-point edge among Colorado's union voters. The trouble for Obama is that only 8% of Colorado's workers are unionized, well below the national average. That's why Professor Scott Adler of UC-Boulder doubts union votes will be a difference-maker: "I don't think you could just win with only union voters," he says...