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...cowboy. We don't need the maverick sheriff with his "have gun, will travel" foreign policy. Our problems cannot be solved in a quick-draw contest. It is time for all Americans to accept personal responsibility for our part in what is happening to our country. We must vote and then pay attention to what our elected officials do. We all need to become better crisis managers of our own personal lives and finances, and of the natural resources of our world. Linda Bracken, Wagoner, Okla...
...Beinart refers to a poll indicating that many white voters who lack college degrees would not vote for Obama because he is too "globalized," too "multicultural," too "cosmopolitan." I have news for Beinart. Many of the emigrants from the U.S.S.R. who came to the U.S. in the '70s and '80s support John McCain. A lot of us have undergraduate or graduate degrees. There is a simple reason for our choice: we already lived in a socialist country and left it. The U.S. surely would move in that direction should Obama win. Mikhail Godkin, San Diego, California...
...Voters Decide I resent David Von Drehle's implication in "The Limits of Race" that whites who do not vote for Obama are motivated by racism [Oct. 20]. Obviously race influences some voters, but what about blacks? Certainly some African Americans will vote for Obama because he is black. How many of these voters will cancel out white voters who vote for the wrong reasons? James C. Perley, Little Sioux, Iowa...
...Democrat, but he's a pro-gun, pro-life, pro-drilling Blue Dog Democrat who rarely mentions House Speaker Nancy Pelosi except to assure voters that she doesn't tell him what to do. And for all his folksy chatter, he won't even say whether he's voting for Obama, shifting to evasive blather about fiercely independent-minded Mississippians who don't want their Congressman to tell them how to vote. John McCain will win the First District easily, and Childers can't win without McCain voters, but he also needs an enthusiastic turnout from blacks, who make...
...Minnesota, there is an alternative. Dean Barkley actually held Coleman's Senate seat briefly after Wellstone died in late 2002, having been appointed to the job by then governor Ventura of feather-boa fame. This year Barkley, with virtually no money, is pulling an average of 18% of the vote in the polls as the candidate from the Independence Party (compared with 40% for Franken and 38% for Coleman). "People who say they're supporting Dean Barkley aren't [actually] supporting Dean Barkley," says Pearson. "They are registering their opposition to the two other candidates. There's a perception among...