Democratic front-runner Barack Obama has scored a coup in his White House nominating battle against Hillary Clinton by winning the high-profile endorsement of blue-collar champion John Edwards.
A telling point about white, working class voters and how some of them will vote when (and it looks like when, not if) Sen. Barack Obama becomes the Democratic nominee was made in an article in this week’s Washington Post.
When Hillary Clinton claimed last week that Barack Obama was having trouble getting the votes of “hard working Americans, white Americans,” much speculation ensued about whether she was intentionally exploiting classic racist beliefs about the supposed laziness of African Americans.
Everything is for sale, and this summer’s Democratic National Convention in Denver is no exception.
More than four dozen national corporations have signed up as sponsors of the convention — everyone from Allstate to Xerox. And almost all of them have the same thing in common: They either have business with the federal government or they lobby on pending issues.
Organizations that have committed to sponsor both the Democratic National Convention in Denver and the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis and some of the issues they have lobbied on:
You can spend time exposing how flawed the game is, or you can spend time winning it.
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Romney, Pawlenty, DeLay and other top Republicans offer ideas for rescuing party following special election losses in conservative districts.
Pastor’s commitment to Israel, praised by McCain, rooted in belief it will soon be site of Armageddon.
BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States and China both need to fend off a troubling rise in economic nationalism in order to keep their economies strong, U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said on Thursday.