Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

Arguably the idea of “sounding presidential” originated with Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president who was first to have his inauguration broadcast on radio. During the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt’s voice reassured the nation as he delivered his “fireside chats” to persuade the nation to get behind the New Deal.As the current crop of presidential […]

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While much media ado is being made about the boost among Latino voters that Barack Obama may have won following his endorsement last week from New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, the bigger payoff could come in the form of diplomatic cover that the onetime Clinton ally now provides for other superdelegates that might follow […]

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Senator Hillary Clinton won the Democratic primary in Ohio, putting a stop Senator Barack Obama’s winning streak. But in the weeks leading up to the election, both candidates marched around the state and spoke to the perennial Ohio concern: loss of manufacturing jobs. White House seekers have been doing it for years. […]

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Hillary Clinton got up really really early today to shake hands with workers at Chrysler’s Toledo assembly plant as part of the final push ahead of the all-important Ohio primary Tuesday.
My-brother-in-law, Teddy, got up really early to go to work at an automotive castings plant in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Clinton has been sparring […]

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Si puo’ fare: it’s how you say YES WE CAN in Italian and it’s all the rage as Italy braces for yet another snap election next month. Si puo’ fare is the slogan for Democrat Walter Veltroni, the former Rome mayor now running for Prime Minister against controversial media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi. A professed admirer […]

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Larry Santana and Sean Aronson traveled to two communities separated by economic and demographic identity: Piedmont, an affluent community near Oakland, and East Oakland, a neighborhood anything but affluent, to gauge voter reactions. Here’s what we found.

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The African-American vote has become a major focus during this national election with the presence of the first serious black contender, Barack Obama. Black voters are largely choosing between Obama and Hillary Clinton, wife of Bill Clinton, affectionately known as the “first black president.”
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