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...Colorado politics is more complicated than a simple choice between national presidential candidates. McCain and Obama will share the ballot with a raft of voter-sponsored amendments, many of them touching on hot-button issues that the candidates can't afford to ignore. A controversial ballot initiative can fire up strongly committed constituencies and bring them en masse to the polls, where, of course, they'll also cast a presidential vote. This year's contenders range from a call for prayer time in public schools to a proposed sex strike to end the Iraq war. One of the highest-profile...
...deck." In the short term, Obama was put on the defensive. In the long term, the move may have neutralized a potentially explosive issue for the Republicans. The indictment of Alaska Senator TedStevens imperils yet another Republican-held congressional seat. While McCain fights hard for the White House, widespread voter dissatisfaction with President Bush and his party's positions suggests Democrats may enjoy formidable majorities in both houses come January. Obama, presumably drained from months of campaigning, is using the Summer Olympics' opening roar to retreat to Hawaii. McCain will mostly stay on the trail but plans to use some...
...White House. She raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Obama from her extensive network of donors and has spoken to many of the groups, including key unions, that backed her in the primaries. She is set to hit the campaign trail on his behalf, starting with rallies and voter-registration drives this month in Nevada and Florida. "I'm doing all I know to do," she insists...
...Even the most irascible voter recognizes that their leaders need a break from time to time. So why should we care where our leaders vacation? "We assume we're much more rational than we are, that we look at a politician and a party and we assess their policies and calculate [their impact] for us," says Rodney Barker, head of the Government department at the London School of Economics. "But we also look at politicians and ask: 'are they our sort of person?'" And that, says Catherine Needham, a lecturer in politics at Queen Mary, part of the University...
While it was largely free of the violence of previous election years, this week's vote was not without controversy. On July 11, an opposition-party-aligned journalist and his son were gunned down on a Phnom Penh street, and independent monitors reported problems with voter registration that prevented a significant number of people from voting. The CPP's domination of the broadcast media, particularly the country's television stations, also left a gaping hole in coverage of non-CPP parties, said Koul Panha, executive director of the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia...