Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

Asian Americans make up the smallest racial group in the country, comprising about 5 percent (14.4 million) of the population. Yet they are the fastest growing sector, rising by 3 percent from 2004 to 2005, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. With continuing immigration from Asia–especially China, India, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Korea–and […]

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Editor’s Note: Columbia News21 Fellow Don Duncan just returned from a two-week journey to Afghanistan, where he followed an Afghan refugee returning there to visit for the first time since being resettled in Phoenix, Ariz. Also see his earlier dispatch.
 
 
Mazar e Sharif, Afghanistan – Since the U.S.-led invasion by the coalition forces of Afghanistan in […]

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For a recent multimedia project called “I Am New York” for NYCInteractive.org, I profiled one immigrant politician, Harjinder Singh Duggal, who is one of the many Sikhs who supports Sen. Hillary Clinton in her now-failed run for the Democratic presidential nomination. And he is just not ready to throw his support for Obama. Yet.

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Arguably the idea of “sounding presidential” originated with Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president who was first to have his inauguration broadcast on radio. During the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt’s voice reassured the nation as he delivered his “fireside chats” to persuade the nation to get behind the New Deal.As the current crop of presidential […]

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While much media ado is being made about the boost among Latino voters that Barack Obama may have won following his endorsement last week from New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, the bigger payoff could come in the form of diplomatic cover that the onetime Clinton ally now provides for other superdelegates that might follow […]

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Senator Hillary Clinton won the Democratic primary in Ohio, putting a stop Senator Barack Obama’s winning streak. But in the weeks leading up to the election, both candidates marched around the state and spoke to the perennial Ohio concern: loss of manufacturing jobs. White House seekers have been doing it for years. […]

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Hillary Clinton got up really really early today to shake hands with workers at Chrysler’s Toledo assembly plant as part of the final push ahead of the all-important Ohio primary Tuesday.My-brother-in-law, Teddy, got up really early to go to work at an automotive castings plant in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.Clinton has been sparring with Democratic rival Barack […]

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Si puo’ fare: it’s how you say YES WE CAN in Italian and it’s all the rage as Italy braces for yet another snap election next month. Si puo’ fare is the slogan for Democrat Walter Veltroni, the former Rome mayor now running for Prime Minister against controversial media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi. A professed admirer […]

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Larry Santana and Sean Aronson traveled to two communities separated by economic and demographic identity: Piedmont, an affluent community near Oakland, and East Oakland, a neighborhood anything but affluent, to gauge voter reactions. Here’s what we found.

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