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...plot. He explains what terms like soccer mom mean and describes cultural differences, such as Americans' tendency to speak more openly than Germans about their political preferences and affiliations. But there are still a few misunderstandings. When the audience is prompted by the actors to sing, "Rock the vote," the response is hesitant. "What do they want us to say?" a confused young woman whispers. (See a TIME package on Obama's first year in office...
...overly pro-Obama feel of the musical - as well as the support he obviously still enjoys among those in the audience - was not lost on the critics. "Had Obama been running for President in Germany, he would certainly have gained more that just 53% of the vote. Among the crowd at the musical, he would easily have gotten 99.9% - a result that even East Germany's Communist Party would have been proud of," a reviewer for the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung noted. "The audience kept finding reasons to cheer on the black Messiah." (See a TIME video...
...That 41st vote is getting people motivated." - Kurt Hages, a volunteer from Boxborough, Mass., campaigning for Brown (The New York Times...
...Senate - from a state that more than any other is synonymous with liberalism. Even more remarkable, it is a seat that has been represented nearly continuously by a Kennedy for over half a century. Democrats now say privately that their last hope is that a superior get-out-the-vote operation could keep the seat from slipping away. (See TIME's special coverage of Ted Kennedy...
...Brown wins, the immediate effect on the health care bill could be profound - something he points out at every campaign appearance, as he pledges to be the "41st Senator." Lacking 60 votes, Senate Democrats will be unable to overcome a GOP filibuster of the health care bill - which has passed both the Senate and the House but will have to return to both chambers for final votes once the two versions are reconciled. The only way to avoid another Senate vote, party strategists say, would be for the House to pass the exact version that the Senate approved in December...