Word: virtual
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...could go back in time and interview any previous politician, who would it be and why? -Andy LeksanI would really like to interview Abraham Lincoln. In fact, in the Abraham Lincoln Library in Springfield, I do this virtual interview with Lincoln and his opponents in a presidential election which they show to visitors. But Lincoln, I really would like to ask him about the issues of the Union, preserving the Union, slavery, how he was able to handle his political opponents. I mean, one of his opponents actually referred to him as monkey, and put them in the Cabinet...
...attempts to downplay expectations, Senator Barack Obama is heading into a weekend that will probably make him look like anything but the underdog. Democrats in four more states are scheduled to cast their ballots, and while they will not be the deciding factors in what remains a virtual dead heat between him and Hillary Clinton, the contests could give Obama an extra boost heading into next week's important Potomac primaries of Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. On a conference call with key Clinton donors on Thursday, the campaign's senior strategist Mark Penn admitted as much...
Republicans - With a virtual sweep of the Bible Belt, Mike Huckabee rode the support of evangelicals to victory in Tennessee on Tuesday. Huckabee had 33.9% of the vote, about 2 percentage points more than Arizona Sen. John McCain. Exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and the television networks show Huckabee ran strong among born-again Christians and conservatives, while McCain did best among moderates and those ranking "the right experience" and ability to win in the general election as most important...
...Italy out of what all now acknowledge is a nationwide funk. Indeed, with Italians set to vote under the old electoral law, whoever wins will almost certainly encounter the same problems Prodi did in governing effectively and keeping his coalition from crumbling. Some say the best hope is a virtual tie, which would force a "grande coalizione" composed of major parties from both sides...
...Vote, No Voice Former Iowa congressman Jim Leach, who now heads Harvard's Institute of Politics, helped launch this site in December 2007. Like Rock The Vote, the site relies on virtual pledges from its visitors to vote in the upcoming election and get five friends to do the same, (offering raffles for iPods and tickets to The Colbert Report as further incentive...