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Candidates avoid immigration issue |
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Sunday, 04 May 2008 |
While the presidential candidates skate around the issue of
immigration, a large number supporters of the May 1 (May Day)
immigration rallies across the country, took to the streets in an
effort to revive the stagnant immigration debate, hoping to make it an
issue for the November presidential election.
Immigration remains a hot button issue which all the candidates seem to
avoid because of its potential repercussions. While all three
candidates support a comprehensive immigration reform, none have so far
broached the topic in any detailed way on the campaign trail.
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Sunday, 04 May 2008 |
Following a week of controversy over statements from his former pastor
Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and distancing himself from Wright,
Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama is hoping that the
effect on his campaign is not as detrimental as many may predict.
If his picking up of one of rival Hillary Clinton’s supporters,
superdelegate Joe Andrew, is anything to go by, the Illinois senator
may not be that bad off. However, the most recent CNN poll shows Obama
at 46 percent and Clinton at 45 percent in the national polls – a big
decline for Obama who was at 52 percent in mid-March. Clinton’s number
remains the same, which suggests that even though Obama has lost
ground, she has not gained any.
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Clinton wins; not much changes |
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Sunday, 27 April 2008 |
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Hillary Clinton’s victory in Tuesday’s Pennsylvania Democratic presidential primary
marks the third time that she has rebounded when the polls and public opinion
either predicted a very close contest between her and Barack Obama, or her
defeat. She won New
Hampshire in January although the polls predicted her defeat; in
March she halted Obama’s momentum in Ohio after
he had won several primaries in February, and now won by some 9.4 percentage
points in Pennsylvania
despite a very strong Obama campaign, where the polls predicted her winning by
a 5 percent margin.
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Sunday, 27 April 2008 |
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The U.S.
Government Accountability Office, according to a McClatchy News/Miami Herald report,
has reported that the government does not have a plan that includes all “elements
of national power – diplomatic, military, intelligence, development assistance,
economic and law enforcement support – called for by the various national
security strategies and Congress” for eliminating Osama bin Laden’s sanctuary
in Pakistan’s tribal region. Neither is there a plan to prevent that region
from being used for launching terrorist attacks on the United States.
This report
is seen as surprising in light of President Bush, and his advisors, claim that
eradicating the threat to the U.S. from al Queda, the bin Laden terrorist group,
is the U.S.’s top national-security priority.
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Unemployment rate highest since Katrina |
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Sunday, 13 April 2008 |
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Touted as
Issue #1 in the upcoming presidential elections, our ailing economy has left
over 200,000 Americans out of a job over the past three months.
The Bureau of
Labor and Statistics (of the U.S. Department of Labor) will not report
unemployment data for respective states until April 18. However, in February
the unemployment rate for Florida
was at 4.6 percent, 2 percentage points below the national rate for that month.
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