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...Chill out, and let everybody have their say. We're going to win this election.' BILL CLINTON, urging Democrats to allow the primary process to work itself out, in a speech at California's Democratic Party convention...
...always had to live the minority experience, and that's where the universal church is headed." In fact, the American church has not really shrunk much. At 24% of the population, Catholics remain a pivotal voting bloc, especially in swing states like Pennsylvania, where they appear to favor Hillary Clinton by sizable margins. A recent poll by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that a quarter of the country's cradle Catholics had left the fold. But they are being replaced by a few converts and a lot of (Mass attending!) Hispanic immigrants, and remarkably, such churn...
...regulatory revamp addresses this issue, sort of, by calling for the creation of a Conduct of Business Regulatory Agency with the sole responsibility of making financial businesses behave decorously. Far more catchy and to the point, though, is Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren's year-old proposal--which Hillary Clinton has recently begun talking up on the campaign trail--for a Financial Product Safety Commission. It would be modeled on the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which keeps exploding toasters off the market. Such a body might stand in the way of financial innovation. But for consumers, that wouldn't necessarily...
...longer. Yepsen interviewed Richardson, and then the governor took a handful of questions from audience members. Not surprisingly, many of the questions Richardson fielded centered on the race for the Democratic nomination for president. Richardson, who recently endorsed Obama despite having worked as secretary of energy under former President Clinton, called the senator from Illinois a “symbol of America’s diversity.” When Yepsen asked what he would say if Obama asked him to be his running mate, Richardson responded, “If it doesn’t work out that?...
...higher education was the lowest in priority for those polled. The survey asked respondents which presidential candidate they expected would do most to help families deal with increasing tuition costs. Barack Obama came out on top, with 32 percent of Americans rating him first. He was followed by Hillary Clinton with 19 percent support and John McCain with 10 percent. Twenty-nine percent of respondents replied that they “don’t know.” Jarret A. Zafran ’09, the president of the Harvard College Democrats, said that he thought it no surprise...