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...state's power brokers, Obama appears to have a lead at the grassroots level, and his continued fund-raising advantage reflects that; in March, Indianans gave some $218,800 to Obama's campaign, and $79,600 to Clinton's. "Our goal is to create an army," says Troy Warner, 37, a South Bend electrician who over the last year has become a committed Obama activist, helping to recruit hundreds of volunteers and spread his candidate's message. In February 2007, Warner's wife prodded him to read Obama's book The Audacity of Hope. Soon he was logging onto www.barackobama.com...
...Warner's only political experience was making phone calls for a few city council candidates. But by summer, he was organizing a debate party at his home in the city's German Township neighborhood. Twenty people RSVP'd, and only one showed up. Still, he kept pushing, and today he manages Obama supporters who on Saturday afternoons walk door-to-door, drumming up volunteers. His first neighborhood captains meeting drew just 5 people. Last week's drew...
...After Obama's Feb. 5 Super Tuesday wins, Warner says, "we were swamped with phone calls." The budding group of volunteers began calling itself "Yes We Can, Michicana," a reference to Obama's campaign mantra, and the nickname of this hilly region along the Indiana-Michigan border. On the evening of March 5, about 110 people gathered at the St. Joseph County Democratic headquarters to eat pizza and watch the Ohio and Texas primary results. Then came a call from Obama's Chicago headquarters. An Obama representative told them, "Indiana matters," and gave marching orders: first to get a real...
When Lieberman-Warner reaches the Senate floor, probably in June, the talk has to get serious. Clinton voted for the bill in committee, but may abandon the bill if it moves to the right in search of votes. (The bill's champion, Senate Environment Committee chairman Barbara Boxer, has vowed not to let that happen.) McCain hasn't embraced the bill, even though he has a real record on the issue. He and Lieberman sponsored cap-and-trade bills in 2003, 2005 and early 2007, when most Senators were missing in action. During the primary, he downplayed that history...
...original version of this article incorrectly stated that Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are co-sponsors of a cap-and-trade environmental bill being sponsored by Senators Joseph Lieberman and John Warner. Neither Clinton nor Obama is co-sponsoring the legislation, though Clinton did vote for the bill in committee. Also, the story originally stated that 25 U.S. states get a quarter or more of their electricity from coal. While true, that statistic understates America's coal dependence: those 25 states get half or more of their electricity from coal...