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...Republican side of things, those on the right wing can rest easy knowing that they’ll receive a large percentage of votes from orthodox Christians who regularly attend church. According to a 2004 study by the Pew Forum on Religious and Public Life, roughly 56 percent of evangelical Protestants and 70 percent of traditionalist evangelicals identify as Republicans. These groups make up 26.3 percent and 12.6 percent of the population, respectively...
...Those who know him say his quest to regain the presidency--he lost elections in 1996 and 2001--stemmed less from leftist ideals than from a raw need to accumulate power and avenge his 1990 humiliation. In 2000 he formed an alliance with President Arnoldo Alemán--a right-wing Somoza acolyte who was later jailed for embezzlement--that helped the Sandinistas dominate Congress and the courts. In 2001 a Sandinista judge who had been a high-ranking official in Ortega's first government dismissed charges by Ortega's stepdaughter Zoilamérica Narváez that Ortega had sexually abused...
...project the notion that they've found and embraced the center of American politics, what kind of message would it send if the party picked Murtha, a blunt confrontational figure who last year called for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq, over Hoyer, a leader of the moderate wing of Democrats in the House? And surely Pelosi, known to have frosty relations with Hoyer, whom she defeated in a bitter House leadership race in 2001, doesn't want to give the impression she'll dump any member of the Democratic leadership that she doesn't like...
...architect--as Bush famously called Rove--of the 2000, 2002 and 2004 G.O.P. wins now downplays his forecast. "My job is not to be a prognosticator," he told TIME in an interview in his West Wing office. "I told the President, 'I don't know where this is going to end up. But I see our way clear to Republican control.' My job is not to go out there and wring my hands and say, 'We're going to lose...
...multinational right-wing company, mass marketing Brooklyn attitude with obsolete ethnic stereotypes, not to mention flimsy crusts...