A GOP Balancing Act
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Bob Corker's strategy: Run away from Bush, but not so far that he loses
the conservative base.
By Richard Wolffe
Newsweek
Oct. 30, 2006 issue - Bob Corker needed to add some flair to his
flagging campaign. The GOP candidate should have been running a simple
Senate race in conservative Tennessee. But he was trailing by several
points last month, so the White House and party leaders stepped in.
Their solution: a new campaign manager in the form of a rumpled,
martini-drinking, cigar-chewing veteran of Tennessee politics. Back in
1978, Tom Ingram helped transform a lackluster candidate for
governor-Lamar Alexander-by dressing him in a folksy red plaid
shirt. And it was Ingram who put Fred Thompson in a red pickup truck in
his 1994 Senate race, turning the Hollywood actor and lawyer into a
good ole boy.
Never Too Late to Say 'I'm Sorry'
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When Kim Jong Il apologizes, it may have more to do with diplomacy than
regret.
WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Melinda Liu and Sarah Schafer
Updated: 7:55 p.m. ET Oct. 21, 2006
Oct. 21, 2006 - Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan told U.S.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice this week that his emergency talk
with Kim "has not been in vain." South Korea's Yonhap news agency
reported that Kim told Tang, "We have no plans for additional nuclear
tests." The Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported Kim had expressed regret
to Tang, who said: "he is sorry about the nuclear test."
As the Tide Turns
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Here's how the Foley scandal has affected a House race in Maryland. A
harbinger of things to come?
Web-Exclusive Commentary
By Eleanor Clift
Newsweek
Updated: 5:06 p.m. ET Oct. 20, 2006
Oct. 20, 2006 - Andrew Duck is an Iraq-war veteran running for Congress
in a conservative district in western Maryland. This is his first foray
into politics, and when he asked his boss at Northrop Grumman if it was
OK, word came back from the legislative-affairs director, "Good
luck." The company obviously thought he needed that luck. Duck says
all their campaign donations went to his opponent, Republican Roscoe
Bartlett. "They made the same determination as everyone else-[that]
I didn't have a chance," laughs Duck.
Scrapping the Playbook
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Fighting for Maryland's open Senate seat, Rep. Ben Cardin and Lt.
Gov. Michael Steele debate Iraq and domestic concerns.
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By David Gerlach
Special to Newsweek
Updated: 6:15 p.m. ET Oct. 20, 2006
Oct. 20, 2006 - Sometimes during an election season, you have to scrap
the traditional playbook. Such is the case in Maryland, where the GOP
hopes to pick off an open Senate seat (vacated by retiring Democrat
Paul Sarbanes) in this Democratic stronghold by rallying behind Michael
Steele, the state's Republican lieutenant governor and the first
African-American elected to statewide office. The strategy: eek out a
victory by peeling off enough of the African-American vote-they make
up almost a third of the state's population-that has historically
gone Democrat.
Market Value
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Wal-Mart's looking to expand its presence in China, one tray of
carved pig's head at a time.
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Jonathan Ansfield
Special to Newsweek
Updated: 1:50 p.m. ET Oct. 20, 2006
Oct. 20, 2006 - Liang Lianchun sells turtles-and she's got the bite
marks on her wrists to prove it. In the grocery section of a Wal-Mart
in north Beijing, the 25-year-old beckons shoppers to stop at her tidy
little stand at the foot of an automatic ramp. She hasn't had many
takers today, but says she'll sell about 20 in the course of a
weekend. The turtles, $12 a piece, are drained of their blood and, if
the customer wants, the blood is made into a drink with Chinese
fermented rice wine. "Good for replenishing your blood and chi,"
she says.
A Script for Doomsday
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Why the military option is not an option against Kim Jong Il and his
nuclear program.
Web-Exclusive Commentary
By John Barry
Newsweek
Updated: 6:41 p.m. ET Oct. 19, 2006
Oct. 19, 2006 - Kim Jong Il doesn't need the bomb to defend his
country. If military force were an acceptable option against Pyongyang,
you probably would have forgotten the North Korean dictator's name
long ago-if you ever knew it in the first place.
Let's Calm Down
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Kim Jong Il may test again, but the nuclear dominoes aren't
going to fall. Here's why.
Web-Exclusive Commentary
By Michael Hirsh
Newsweek
Updated: 1:30 p.m. ET Oct. 19, 2006
Oct. 19, 2006 - While visiting Asia this week with Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice, I stopped in to see my old Tokyo neighborhood, where
I last lived 12 years ago. I was astonished at how little had changed:
there was my house, its yellow stucco walls still stained the exactly
same shade of brown; there was the same McDonald's and Mr. Donut at the
train station, and the same koban, or police box, with a blue-jacketed,
white-hatted policeman drowsing over his battered desk.
Weather Change
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In the rural reaches of Michigan, there's a palpable sense of voter
malaise. Will it hurt Republicans at the polls?
Web-Exclusive Commentary
By Michael Meyer
Newsweek
Updated: 4:26 p.m. ET Oct. 19, 2006
Oct. 19, 2006 - The Muskegon, the Jordan, the Boardman, the Boyne. The
rivers of northern Michigan are thick with salmon this time of year,
swimming upstream to spawn.
Clinton Comeback
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The former president has returned to center stage. Can he make a
difference to the election outcome?
Web-Exclusive Commentary
By Richard Wolffe and Holly Bailey
Newsweek
Updated: 2:52 p.m. ET Oct. 18, 2006
Oct. 18, 2006 - When Hillary Clinton and John McCain traded rhetorical
blows over North Korea last week, some pundits hailed the exchange as a
taste of 2008: a titanic clash between the early front runners in the
next presidential election.
Bush = Truman?
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RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman compares today's Iraq to 1950s Korea. If true,
the GOP could face a drubbing at the ballot box.
WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Howard Fineman
Newsweek
Updated: 3:37 p.m. ET Oct. 17, 2006
Oct. 17, 2006 - They are calling them "pre-mortems"-explanations
in advance for what are expected to be Republican losses in the midterm
elections next month. I heard a fascinating pre-mortem over dinner the
other night from no less a personage than Ken Mehlman, chairman of the
Republican National Committee.
Keystone Combat
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With Sen. Rick Santorum trailing Bob Casey in the polls, the candidates
for Pennsylvania's Senate seat square off over foreign and domestic
policy.
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Matthew Philips
Newsweek
Updated: 3:05 p.m. ET Oct. 17, 2006
Oct. 17, 2006 - Pennsylvania's junior senator, Republican Rick
Santorum, is fighting for his political life. After narrowing the lead
of Democratic challenger, state treasurer Bob Casey, to single digits
in August, Santorum was hopeful that a post-Labor Day boost would carry
him to a third term. But polls now show Casey's lead back near double
digits. And a judge's recent decision to disqualify the Green Party
candidate Carl Romanelli from the race didn't help Santorum, who had
hoped the third-party candidate would siphon liberal votes away from
the moderate Casey. If Santorum goes down, President Bush will lose one
of his most consistent and conservative allies in the Senate. Since
2001, he's voted in support of the president 97 percent of the time,
according to Congressional Quarterly.
Echoes of '88
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Mark Starr, who covered the Dukakis presidential run for NEWSWEEK, says
the GOP is employing a fear-mongering ad strategy in the Massachusetts
governor's race.
Web-Exclusive Commentary
By Mark Starr
Newsweek
Updated: 3:07 p.m. ET Oct. 18, 2006
Oct. 17, 2006 - The 1988 presidential campaign of former Massachusetts
Gov. Michael Dukakis made more than its fair share of missteps. Still,
it is not a stretch to say that the Dukakis dream died the day Vice
President George H.W. Bush first mentioned the name Willie Horton.
Bombs Away
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Mikhail Gorbachev discusses North Korea's nuclear threat, women's
rights, the lessons of Afghanistan and why his dream of a nuke-free
world is no 'utopian fantasy.'
Web Exclusive
By Karen Fragala Smith
Newsweek
Updated: 3:50 p.m. ET Oct. 17, 2006
Oct. 17, 2006 - Fifteen years after stepping down as leader of the
Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, 75, remains an untiring voice in
international relations. Besides continuing his efforts to reduce the
threat of nuclear weapons in the world (which earned him the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1990), he's active in many other initiatives,
including the environmental group Green Cross International and World
Awards International, an organization created by Austrian financier
Christian Baha to celebrate the work of individuals who have made a
difference. Gorbachev was in New York recently to preside over an
outgrowth of the World Awards, the Women's World Awards; among this
year's honorees were Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg and Queen Noor
of Jordan. Between his public duties, the former Soviet leader took a
few minutes off to chat with NEWSWEEK's Karen Fragala Smith on a
whole range of subjects, from the North Korean nuclear threat to
alternative energy and the lessons of Afghanistan. Excerpts:
A Controversial Death Provokes a Controversial Play
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A monologue fashioned from the words of a woman killed in the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict creates drama on-stage and off
Web-Exclusive Commentary
By Cathleen McGuigan
Newsweek
Updated: 4:41 p.m. ET Oct. 16, 2006
Oct. 16, 2006 - Do you remember the name Rachel Corrie? Maybe not. She
was a 23-year-old American peace activist killed by an Israeli Army
bulldozer as she tried to block the destruction of a Palestinian's
house in Gaza in March 2003. She became more than a footnote in the
Middle East conflict when her own words-from her journals and
e-mails-were shaped into an award-winning one-actor play in London
called "My Name is Rachel Corrie." But when the show's U.S.
opening last spring was cancelled at the New York Theater Workshop
(best known for spawning the musical "Rent"), a controversy
erupted. The theater's artistic director had made his decision after
talking to leaders in the Jewish community; he later told The New York
Times, "It seemed as though if we proceeded, we would be taking a
stand we didn't want to take." The London producers called the
cancellation "censorship."
'Seduction of Christians'
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Former Bush aide David Kuo explains why he wrote his controversial book
critiquing the White House's faith-based initiative-and why
evangelicals should take a two-year 'fast' from politics.
Web Exclusive
By Richard Wolffe
Newsweek
Updated: 4:48 p.m. ET Oct. 16, 2006
Oct. 16, 2006 - David Kuo was a rising star among social conservatives:
he wrote speeches for Ralph Reed, served as a policy adviser to John
Ashcroft and counted Bill Bennett as his mentor. He joined the Bush
campaign in 1998 and rose to become second in command at the White
House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
The Mere Midterms
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By NOAH FELDMAN
Even if voters send President Bush a strong message, he is not likely
to listen.
Democrats Strengthen Chances For Senate
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Va., Mo. and Tenn. May Tip the Balance
By Charles Babington and Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, October 22, 2006; A01
Democrats in the past two weeks have significantly improved their
chances of taking control of the Senate, according to polls and
independent analysts, with the battle now focused intensely on three
states in the Midwest and upper South: Missouri, Tennessee and
Virginia.
Democratic challengers are in strong positions against GOP incumbents
in four states -- Pennsylvania, Montana, Ohio and Rhode Island -- a
trend that leaves the party looking for just two more seats to reclaim
the majority. The main targets are states where Republicans in recent
years have dominated but this year find themselves in hotly competitive
races.
After Elections, a Democratic Push
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By David S. Broder
Sunday, October 22, 2006; Page B07
No one speaks more authoritatively for the Democrats on defense and
national security issues than Sens. Carl Levin of Michigan and Jack
Reed of Rhode Island, both longtime members of the Armed Services
Committee. If you want to know what Democratic gains in this midterm
election would mean for national security policy, Levin and Reed can
provide the answers.
In a conference call with reporters the other day, the two senators
outlined the changes in U.S. policy toward North Korea and Iraq that
they and their fellow Democrats would like to see. They signal to
voters the kind of change a Democratic victory would mean.
Rove Road-Tests Tougher Attack on Democrats
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By Michael Abramowitz and Zachary A. Goldfarb
Sunday, October 22, 2006; Page A05
BUFFALO, Oct. 21 -- Republicans have been promising they would ratchet
up the rhetoric against Democrats in the final two weeks of the fall
campaign, and the man President Bush called "The Architect" of his
political campaigns offered a preview of what they have in mind on
Friday night.
Appearing in support of embattled GOP Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds (R-N.Y.),
Karl Rove offered biting jibes against House Democratic leader Nancy
Pelosi (Calif.), took a shot at the American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU) and asserted that Democratic policies would leave the country
weaker.
Egypt, Under Stress, Sees U.S. as Pain and Remedy
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By MICHAEL SLACKMAN
Egypt is pressing the U.S. for an aggressive promotion of Palestinian
statehood to strengthen itself and other Arab governments.
In Anti-Immigrant Mood, Russia Heeds Gadfly's Cry
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By STEVEN LEE MYERS
The anti-immigrant views of fringe political figure Aleksandr A. Belov
are moving into the mainstream of political debate.
Radioactive Nationalism
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By PETER MAASS
Even after 9/11, power politics and the risky maneuverings of states
continue to shape history. Especially on the Korean peninsula.
Growing Absentee Voting Is Reshaping Campaigns
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By JOHN M. BRODER
With 30 states now allowing no-excuse absentee voting, candidates are
maneuvering to adapt to a changed political calendar.
Guardedly, Democrats Are Daring to Believe
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By ADAM NAGOURNEY and ROBIN TONER
The Democrats' confidence is tempered by memories of being
outmaneuvered by superior Republican organizing.
Democrats Play Up Candidates' Service
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By MONICA DAVEY
Around the nation, a handful of military veterans have emerged as
competitive Democratic candidates for Congress.
In Two New Mexico Towns, Voices of Concern About the Party in Power
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By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
For some Republicans, the war and the federal deficit, the war and
corruption, the war and the House page scandal - is enough to
catapult some to the other side.
The Economic Miracle as an Economic Mirage
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By ROGER LOWENSTEIN
"The Great Risk Shift" asks whatever happened to the good old days
of cradle-to-grave security.
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