Bill Jefferson @ February 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Maryland election officials got a judge to give voters an extra 90 minutes to get to the polls Tuesday after icy weather created traffic gridlock in parts of the state.The polls were scheduled to close at 8 p.m., but hours were extended to 9:30 p.m.
Voter turnout had been expected to be high in Maryland’s Democratic […]
Bill Jefferson @ February 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A plan to use U.S. spy satellites for domestic security and law-enforcement missions is moving forward after being delayed for months because of privacy and civil liberties concerns.The charter and legal framework for an office within the Homeland Security Department that would use overhead and mapping imagery from existing satellites is in the final stage […]
Bill Jefferson @ February 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Exit polls in Virginia and Maryland show that Barack Obama is drawing broad support from whites, blacks, men and women in the presidential race against Hillary Rodham Clinton.In both states, the Illinois senator is splitting the white vote evenly with Clinton, according to final figures from exit polls Tuesday in Virginia and preliminary data from […]
Bill Jefferson @ February 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton’s deputy campaign manager has stepped down amid a string of losses to rival Barack Obama.Mike Henry announced his departure Tuesday, a day after Maggie Williams replaced Patti Solis Doyle as Clinton’s campaign manager. Solis Doyle had recruited Henry to join the team last year.
Henry was the campaign’s main field architect and […]
Bill Jefferson @ February 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The House is going to make another run at imposing more than $17 billion in taxes on major oil companies.An aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi initially said plans were to take up the bill Wednesday, but after looking at a tight schedule it was decided to postpone action until likely next week.
Final numbers have […]
Bill Jefferson @ February 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
President Bush said Tuesday that recent displays of nooses are disturbing and indicate that some Americans may be losing sight of the suffering that blacks have endured across the nation.”The era of rampant lynching is a shameful chapter in American history,” Bush said at a black history month event at the White House, which began […]
Bill Jefferson @ February 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Federal officials have agreed to take another look at an anti-terrorism reward that excluded two Zacarias Moussaoui tipsters, two senators said after meeting with the officials on Tuesday.Last month, the $5 million reward went to Clarence Prevost, a key witness in Moussaoui’s death penalty trial in 2006. In the case, a jury concluded that Moussaoui’s […]
Bill Jefferson @ February 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Gov. Ed Rendell, one of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s most visible supporters, said some white Pennsylvanians are likely to vote against her rival Barack Obama because he is black.”You’ve got conservative whites here, and I think there are some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate,” Rendell told the editorial board […]
Bill Jefferson @ February 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Highlights of preliminary exit poll data in the Maryland and Virginia presidential primaries Tuesday:
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FAITH-BASED VOTING
Mike Huckabee benefited from a strong turnout of born-again evangelical Christians in Virginia’s primary. Four in 10 Virginia Republican voters were born-again evangelical Christians, and they strongly supported Huckabee over Sen. John McCain.
Huckabee won the votes of two-thirds of Virginia Republicans […]
Bill Jefferson @ February 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Two New York Hispanic leaders said they would be upset if Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Hispanic campaign manager was replaced because of primary losses they believe should be blamed on former President Clinton and others.Patti Solis Doyle, whose parents were Mexican immigrants, stepped down as Clinton’s campaign manager this weekend as Clinton was losing five Democratic […]