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Pocketbook issues loom large in Spaniards' minds as they prepare to vote amid gathering signs of an economic downturn. Unemployment reached 8.6% in January, the first quarterly rise since 2003. And though most of Zapatero's term was marked by continued economic expansion - begun under his Popular Party predecessor, José María Aznar - up to one-quarter of GDP growth over the past seven years has been linked to housing starts. The resulting housing glut stemmed above all from overconfidence about tourism and speculation on second-home purchases. But José García-Montalvo, an economics professor...
...knowledge with wisdom. Glibly reeling off a bunch of wonky statistics and programs - as Hillary Clinton is wont to do - may make for good sound bites and debate repartee, but it signifies neither a mastery of substance nor good judgment. Clinton's judgment has proved wanting in her disastrous vote to authorize war in Iraq, her failure to pass health-care reform when she and Bill had the chance and many other important issues. I'm old enough to remember a similar style-vs.-substance debate about President John F. Kennedy. His enduring positive influence proves that he combined style...
...concluded there is little evidence that John McCain's surge represents a Republican repudiation of George W. Bush or any element of conservatism [Feb. 18]. He couldn't be more wrong. Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and James Dobson have spent the past decade telling us whom to vote for. The result has been the most base and incompetent Administration in the history of this country. And now these same gasbags are trying to tell us we're making a mistake in voting for McCain. Well, this is one Republican who has voted for him not only because...
...national level, but sometimes immediate action is needed," Hughes told me during a Sunday-morning visit to a pancake house in Marion with Governor Strickland 10 days before the Ohio primary. Strickland is supporting Hillary Clinton, but Hughes is undecided-which, in Ohio, means that he'd like to vote for Barack Obama but needs to be convinced that Obama has the desire to understand, and act on, the layered complexity of the region's despair...
...into Congress. To make it a broader redirection of Congress as it truly represents the people has not been tried before... Any kind of social justice proposal has to be premised on a shift of power, and that's what happened with slavery and the women's right to vote and worker standards. It was all shift of power...