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However, the tight Presidential race is playing out to the advantage of domestic carmakers as they press for legislation for the loan guarantees. The list of states that would benefit includes the potential swing states of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Missouri. "That's where the election is going to be decided, right there," notes one Ford official, who asked not to be identified. Barack Obama, the Democratic Presidential candidate, and Republican nominee John McCain have endorsed the loan guarantees. Both candidates also voted for the Energy Bill approved by Congress and signed by President George W. Bush in December that...
...their identification and asked students if they had permission to be there.S. Allen Counter, the director of the Harvard Foundation and a Harvard Medical School professor, wrote in a subsequent Crimson editorial piece that “these students felt collectively ‘profiled’ by race and asked the simple question, ‘if fifty or more white students were engaged in similar activities would they have been approached by the police?’”“A recurrent complaint brought to our office by African-Americans students is that they...
...White women are always a key demographic in close races. Classic swing voters, they tend to be more pragmatic than partisan and usually make up their minds late in the race. The ones who matter most, however, are not necessarily the same in each presidential election. In 1996 they were the "soccer moms" who responded to Bill Clinton's small-bore initiatives and rescued his presidency. The white female vote was crucial to George W. Bush's victory in 2004, a year that was marked by the post-9/11 political emergence of the so-called security mom - a term...
...Obama-focused stories on the cover eight times in 2008, vs. four for McCain. "The press decided the campaign was going to be about Obama," Mark Salter, McCain's close adviser and co-author of his books, said last month. "There was nothing we could do about that. The race is as we found...
...problematic stances on many of the issues that do motivate young Evangelicals. Her insistence that global warming is not man-made, for instance, is unlikely to appeal to those Evangelicals who have embraced so-called "creation care" in the past few years. This is particularly relevant to the current race, as young Evangelicals account for much of that demographic's undecided bloc. No one knows what the size of their impact may be in November because young Evangelicals are consistently underrepresented in polls of white Evangelicals. (Even a TIME poll of likely white Evangelical voters conducted last month used...