December 2007
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Bhutto supporters pin hopes on son and heir
Simon Gardner, Reuters There is an eerie quiet at Benazir Bhutto’s Karachi home-cum-campaign headquarters where grief is giving way to hope that her legacy will live on through her son and heir. Crowned her political successor on Sunday, Bhutto’s 19-year-old son Bilawal will not be eligible to run for parliament for another six years, but [...]
Deadly Rioting Over Kenyan Election Results
DANA HUGHES, ABC News Thousands of angry Kenyans waving branches and weilding machetes battled police and marched in the streets of the capital and other cities today to protest what they claim was a rigged election giving President Mwai Kibaki a second term. The protests threatened to erupt in wide spread tribal violence and neither [...]
With New Poll Results, Candidates Scramble for Edge in Caucuses
PATRICK HEALY and JULIE BOSMAN, New York Times The presidential candidates spent the last Sunday before the Iowa caucuses attending church services, staging big rallies and sniping at one another as new polls suggested tightening races in both the Democratic and Republican fields. With three Democrats scrambling for the lead in Iowa heading into the [...]
Obama Tries New Tactics To Get Out Vote in Iowa
Peter Slevin and Jose Antonio Vargas, Washington Post In Sen. Barack Obama’s Iowa headquarters, young staff members sit at computers, analyzing online voter data and targeting potential backers. They zip one e-mail to an undecided voter and zap a different message to a firm supporter. Depending on the voter, they follow with Facebook reminders, telephone [...]
Activist fails to rally blacks on illegal-immigration issue
Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times The forum seemed tailor-made for Ted Hayes, the Los Angeles activist for the homeless who has become one of the nation’s most visible African Americans raising a ruckus about illegal immigration. A mostly black crowd had gathered at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Los Angeles for a feisty [...]
