Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

Republican presidential candidate John McCain is running a new ad that seems to pit Latino interests against the Democratic candidate. In Spanish text and voiceovers, the ad notes that Obama neglected to mention a single Latin American country during his “citizen of the world” speech in Berlin. (Read more on Huffington Post)
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With the continuing shift of Asian Americans to the Democratic Party, and as more Asian Republicans and independents become disillusioned with the status quo, does Barack Obama has the potential to capture a large majority of these voters? That’s what I found through extensive interviews with Asian voters in Southern California and discussions with political […]

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(Photo by Rob Runyan) Richard Sandor is founder and CEO of the Chicago Climate Exchange, the first voluntary but legally binding market for trading emissions in North America.

By Frank Carlson/Medill
As U.S. Senators Barack Obama and John McCain begin their long descent into tit-for-tat rhetorical games, it’s easy to forget key issues the two still broadly agree […]

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Ethanol plants like this Adkins Energy LLC plant in Lena, Ill. use an average of four gallons of water per gallon of fuel they produce. When irrigated corn is used that number can balloon to nearly 1,000 gallons of water. (Photo by Rob Runyan)
By Rob Runyan/Medill
Watergy
No, it’s not the newest vitamin-enhanced thirst quencher on the […]

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By Rebecca Ford, USC
SAN DIEGO, Calif.–During a speech emphasizing his shared values with the Latino community, Barack Obama unveiled another aspect of his health care plan at the annual convention of the National Council of La Raza, the largest Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States.
Obama announced yesterday that his plan would […]

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Every couple of weeks an email from Baghdad pops up in Iraq War veteran Joey Coon’s inbox at his home in Washington, D.C. It’s Coon’s 23-year-old Iraqi interpreter, nicknamed Dash, pleading for help to get out of Iraq and into the United States. Dash feels in constant grave danger that he and his family will […]

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If you were a campaign’s field director and learned that 18,000 people eager to vote for the first time were gathering in one spot, you’d probably show up with at least a few clipboard-wielding volunteers to register them, right? Yet John McCain’s supporters were nowhere to be found Friday morning as the first of three […]

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John McCain opened his California campaign headquarters in Torrance on Wednesday, sending a first signal that he does not intend to concede the traditionally Democratic-leaning state.
McCain’s California campaign chair, Bill Jones, addressed a crowd of about 50 volunteers and elected officials to drive home that message. “It is important to understand that California is clearly […]

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(Photos by Frank Carlson)
Wildflowers grow along state route TN-90 in the Cumberland Mountains near the community of Eagan, Tenn.
By Frank Carlson, Medill
So we’re halfway through our week of reporting on the history and impact of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation’s largest public utility and arguably the original “green collar” developer. And one theme that […]

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Flooded farms in Iowa may have far-reaching effects on corn prices and ethanol. (Photo by Eric Kroh)
By Eric Kroh
As farmers in Iowa clear sediment deposited on their land by the Mississippi, Iowa and Cedar rivers, it remains to be seen just how much damage the floods have done.
At a community meeting in Wapello yesterday, […]

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