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Like Gilbert, I have found myself in anguish over the fact that my dad and I will vote differently in November. Why does it seem so intolerable? I fear that something cultural - and quite dangerous - is at work. In our public discourse, Americans can't seem to discuss and debate issues with anything approaching respect or intellectual honesty. We oversimplify, we distort, we dismiss. We turn the challengers into enemies. And when that madness infects our private discourse, our family members become foes. Not good for family harmony - and not a very wise way to go about choosing a world...
...ahead and agree with you on that.' SAMUEL WURZELBACHER, the Ohio resident known as Joe the Plumber, when asked at a rally for John McCain if a vote for Barack Obama is a vote for "the death of Israel...
...statehood in 1959. But they did not stop there and went on to set the minimum age of state legislators at 18; set up a commission to determine legislative salaries; eliminate a requirement that people had to be able to read or write English or Hawaiian in order to vote; and wrote a constitutional provision granting privacy rights that Feder Lee says was ahead of its time. Some of the changes were good for island society, Feder Lee says. None of them could be predicted. "The only thing we know for certain," Feder Lee says, "is we never know what...
However, when it comes to the numbers Washington understands best - votes and money - Obama may be stronger, politically, than any other Democrat in years. Thanks to his extraordinary success in building an independent campaign, Obama would sit down with special interests knowing that his mailing list is bigger than theirs and his ability to raise money puts theirs in the shade. A capital that used to be impressed by the Bush family's thousands-strong Christmas-card list boggles at the millions of names in Obama's digital address book. If his lead in the polls stands up through Election...
...ultrasound technician. "This being Florida, you never know what's going to happen with an election," says Birgin, holding an umbrella to shield her from the midday tropical sun during a two-hour wait this week outside the library. "This one's too important not to make sure my vote gets counted right. So I'm taking my day off today to do this now, not on Election Day, when it's too late to fix things...