GOP candidates turn fire on each other
November 29, 2007
Jonathan Martin, Politico
After seven debates in which the Republicans mostly took shots at Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Democrats, the presidential hopefuls who gathered here Wednesday finally trained their fire on one another.
In place of the Hillary-bashing were a series of clashes over cultural issues: immigration, guns, God and gays.
It was the first of these that made for perhaps the most contentious exchange thus far between the closest thing the fluid GOP contest has to front-runners.
Conservative Republicans split endorsements
November 8, 2007
Andrea Hopkins, Reuters
Two leading Christian conservatives split their presidential endorsements on Wednesday, with Republican front-runner Rudy Giuliani winning surprise backing from evangelist Pat Robertson despite the former New York mayor’s support of abortion rights.
Republican candidate John McCain took the endorsement of Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, a conservative who quit the race for the November 2008 presidential election last month.
South Carolina blacks energized by election; white evangelicals are not
November 5, 2007
Ken Herman, Austin American-Statesman
In many of South Carolina’s black churches, election excitement is rising, divided between two Democratic presidential candidates seeking to make history.
In many of the state’s white evangelical congregations, there is a lack of love for the Republican field.
Each group makes up a sizable portion of the South Carolina electorate, making them potentially pivotal in the state’s January primaries. But their significance goes beyond that.
Latinos, African-Americans must deal with racial tension
November 5, 2007
Randy Jurado Ertll, Los Angeles Daily News
Some of the issues that African-Americans and Latinos have in common are high unemployment rates, high drop-out rates from public schools, systemic poverty, gang violence, high percentage of prison inmates and the continual discrimination that both communities face.
So why do African-Americans feel fearful of Latin American immigrants, and why do Latinos fear African-Americans?
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