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...issue is non-partisan. While trumpeting its candidate’s multicultural background and commitment to every social class, the Obama campaign has also taken pains to distance itself from Islam in an attempt to appeal to voters on the fence. A page of its “Fight the Smears” Web site, entitled “The Truth About Obama’s Faith,” for example, states that “shameful, shadowy attackers have been lying about Barack’s religion, claiming he is a Muslim instead of a committed Christian...
...People don’t like other people just showing up at their doors—this is where the training comes in. Safety is also an issue. And of course, we want to make a positive impression and want to make it clear that we are not partisan.” Liesl J. Newton ’11, agreed that door-to-door voter registration in Boston can be difficult. She said that whereas people voluntarily approach voter registration tables in Cambridge, the IOP’s efforts in Boston are sometimes seen as an “involuntary...
...have all but disappeared. When pollsters compile lists of Americans' top concerns, those barely register. What is on the rise is anxiety about globalization. Support for unregulated free trade has cratered on the Democratic left. Hostility to illegal immigration is red hot on the Republican right. And beyond the partisan divide, it's the same demographic that is most upset about both: working-class whites...
...thinking in Washington may also be changing, however. Although McCain dismisses as "dangerous" and "naive" Barack Obama's promises "to engage in tough, direct diplomacy with Iran," momentum for direct diplomacy with Teheran is gaining on both sides of the partisan divide. Even former Republican Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger, James Baker and Colin Powell have urged expanding direct contacts between the two nations, and the Bush Administration last July sent U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs William Burns sat down with diplomats from Iran and Europe to discuss the nuclear stand-off. Regardless of campaign-trail rhetoric...
...change from one program to another. All of this has enormous manipulative potential, highlighting one candidate’s screw-ups and the other’s shining moments. But the whole thing takes so much attention to run that they don’t have time for partisan trickery.“We’re pilots,” Manor said. “There’s basically this enormous leviathan of controls, and we’re paying no attention to the passengers. We’re just trying to bring the plane...