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...problem for the Republican is voters like Paul Blackburn, a 65-year-old bus driver from Eupora who shook hands with Childers at the Mathiston diner. Blackburn voted for Bush twice--and would a third time if he could. He believes that all news stations are biased except Fox, which is where he says he learned that the Clinton Administration created the current economic meltdown by coddling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. "I believe in God, I believe in the war in Iraq, and I don't have a lot of use for Nancy Pelosi," he says. "But Travis, well...
...banks, a dozen states, even some of the lenders who made the loans being defaulted on--they all use the company's data. That means RealtyTrac, a firm that cleared just $40 million in revenue last year, winds up shaping much of the debate about how bad the foreclosure problem is, and not always without controversy...
...media attention. It succeeded, and soon people were calling. Among them: New York banking superintendent Richard Neiman, who chairs the state's foreclosure-prevention task force. "If you're going to motivate legislators to change laws and apportion money, you've got to convince them there's a problem," he says. "You've got to start with the data." Collecting and analyzing data from the state's 62 counties would have been costly, so the task force went to RealtyTrac. New York was hardly alone. "RealtyTrac does the shoe leather," says Israel Klein, deputy staff director for Congress's Joint...
...best way to look at foreclosure rates would be as a percentage of households with a mortgage. That was finally tossed in favor of RealtyTrac's measure of foreclosures as a percentage of all households. If the state reported its preferred figure, it would seem to have a greater problem than other states when people compared the two sets of data. "RealtyTrac is now setting the standard by which this information gets reported," says Neiman. "And it behooves us to work with that...
...Breakdowns” book, one of the reasons I didn’t think it was going to be able to be published again was the hardcore sexual imagery. Now I’m told, “Well that’s not a problem.” THC: You’ve been a politically engaged artist, publicly speaking against George W. Bush and criticizing the media for its widespread conformism. What in your view is the role of the artist as we grapple with a failing economy and an upcoming election? AS: I never wanted...