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...crushed the night Letterman - one of her favorites, the kid from Indiana whom she took under her wing and, she claimed, had talked into staying when he wanted to go back home - showed up on the picket line. "I watched him in the bay window here," Mitzi would recall years later. "I was taken aback. I was crying. Three and a half years working with him, every night. I called him that night at his apartment. I was totally choked up. And he said, 'Those comedians are my friends. And they'll be my friends for the rest...
...Democratic Party (SPD) posted an 8 percentage point gain in the popular vote - at the expense of its conservative rivals, Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) - with a campaign for "social justice" and a statutory minimum wage. In both Hesse and neighboring Lower Saxony, a far-left-wing party with roots in the former East Germany won seats in a major west German parliament for the first time. "Today we have changed the cultural and political landscape of the German Federal Republic," Left Party Secretary-General Dietmar Bartsch told supporters after the vote. Hesse's SPD leader, Andrea...
...vote tally. And the SPD fared poorly in Lower Saxony, where a clean-cut CDU candidate played to the center and the Left Party gnawed at the SPD's union base. But after 10 years in which German politics - and the SPD - remained largely in the political center, left-wing economic policies are winning votes again, marking a break with a decade of cautious reformism. That sets a new tone for elections in Hamburg and Bavaria later this year, as well as for federal elections in late 2009. In Berlin, it makes further economic reforms unlikely until a new government...
...Forum on Religion and Public Life who has studied evangelical voting patterns in Florida and elsewhere, "is that the evangelical electorate in Florida is actually pretty evenly divided between more conservative elements and more moderate camps." Green notes that Huckabee actually draws most of his support from that moderate wing. "It's likely that the group of people that might move away from Huckabee because he's not really campaigning there would probably move to John McCain" - whose views on the environment and human rights align more closely to their own. Still, Romney's membership in the LDS church, once...
...think we should sober up first. Plenty of people are still partying as if it were 2006. Right-wing radio talk shows are still dominated by ads for second mortgages. Every day's mail still brings fat envelopes from companies begging to issue you a credit card. Every TV commercial that isn't about some prescription drug for a disease you never heard of (but may well have, now that they mention it) seems to be for payday loans. Always borrow responsibly, they say. A little late for that...