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...kids grades one to 12 could vote, Barack Obama would be our next President. In a recent non-scientific poll conducted by the academic publisher Scholastic, 57% of nearly 250,000 youngsters voted to send the Democratic nominee to the White House. But how much of students' opinions are a reflection of their teachers' political preferences? And is that kind of influence a bad thing...
...writing a racial slur about Obama on his blackboard. Other situations, however, are more ambiguous. Consider the class of first graders at a San Francisco charter school, which recently had a school-sponsored outing to attend the wedding of their lesbian teacher. Three weeks from now, California voters will vote on Proposition 8, an anti-gay marriage ballot initiative, and proponents of that measure decry the field trip as overtly political. "This is promoting same-sex marriage and indoctrinating young kids," says Frank Schubert, co-manager of the Yes on 8 Campaign. Liz Jaroflow, principal of Creative Arts Charter School...
...stations and in the two newspapers that make up part of the Cherry family's sprawling Tampa business empire, the largest black-owned media entity in the Sunshine State. The ads would have enabled McCain to make his case to potentially millions of black Floridians, about 13% of whom voted for President Bush in 2004. Instead, Cherry, 52, recalls a Republican official saying, "We're ceding the black vote in Florida to Obama." Last week, Cherry's statewide newspaper, the Florida Courier, featured a house ad asking, "Why aren't Crist [Florida governor Charlie Crist, who was elected...
...McCain campaign is writing off the black vote, some say Obama is taking it for granted. It wasn't until three weeks ago that Obama's campaign bought two half-page Courier ads for $3,000 each, and a half-page ad in Cherry's other newspaper, the Daytona Times, for $1,500. The Democratic National Committee and Obama's campaign, Cherry says, bought a 60-second "register to vote" ad to run on WPUL-AM in Daytona Beach five times a day, for seven days, ending on Oct. 5, the eve of Floridians' last day to register to participate...
...them to the polls is a very different matter. Cherry and others in the black community worry that the Obama campaign is too concerned with striking a moderate pose that puts white voters at ease and, as a result, is not working hard enough to get out the black vote...