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...however, points out a paradoxical possibility. He says the strongest cases will probably not involve gay marriage at all, at least not directly. They'll be the child-support cases that arrive out of its corollary, same-sex divorce. "The court would have to recognize the original marriage as valid to enforce the divorce and child support decree - and thus give it full faith and credit," he says...
...groups that Clinton won - women, Latinos, older voters, blue-collar whites - and that in many key states have appeared to be beyond his reach. "There is still a lot of enthusiasm and support out there for her," says a leader of a women's activist organization. "It is a valid question where that goes after June 3" - the date of the last Democratic primaries. In that regard, exit polls from her lopsided win over Obama in Kentucky pointed in an ominous direction: only a third of those who voted for her said they would support Obama over John McCain...
...potential PR disaster was averted by President Medvedev issuing a decree to automatically grant visas to all British fans holding a valid ticket to the game. Obtaining visas had become more difficult in recent months as Moscow-London relations sank to a low ebb in a series of tit-for-tat moves following Britain rejecting Russia's demands to extradite tycoon Boris Berezovsky and Chechen separatist Akhmed Zakayev, while Russia turned down British demands to extradite Andrei Lugovoi, prime suspect in the murder of former Russian security officer Aleksander Litvinenko. It would be premature, however, to judge the blanket visa...
...vote to President Robert Mugabe's 43.2%. That means that, officially, no candidate has won an outright victory of more than 50%, a scenario which, under Zimbabwean electoral law, mandates a second round run-off within three weeks. "Since no candidate has received the majority of the valid vote cast... a second election shall be held on a date to be advised by the commission," chief elections officer Lovemore Sekeramayi told reporters in Harare...
...that the process is impartial and consistent.Another change caucus states could adopt is one Maine allows: Voters who can’t get to the caucus can cast an absentee ballot at a caucus to register their initial preference. That’s an easy way to meet the valid criticism that caucuses disenfranchise people who can’t attend.Caucuses could also be held on Saturday nights instead of week nights, or alternatively voting could be allowed during a longer window of time to enable greater participation.But big changes to the nominating processes rarely win approval. They are fine...