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After casting her ballot for Barack Obama, Amanda Jones said simply, "I feel good about voting for him." Ms. Jones, of Cedar Creek, Texas (a town just south of Austin), is African-American, and what gives her vote some historic punch is that she's 109 years old. Her father was a slave. Her mother was born right after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. She's been through it all--Jim Crow segregation, women's suffrage, the Great Depression, the poll tax, FDR, the civil-rights movement, desegregation, 13 years of George W (five as guv, eight as prez), and now: Barack Obama. This last change fills her with joy, she says.
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Gore's corporate veep
When he named Sen. Joseph Lieberman to be his running mate, Al Gore portrayed the choice as a "bold" move, and it certainly is symbolically significant that he put the first Jewish American on a national ticket. Symbolism aside, Lieberman is strictly cut from corporate cloth, and he's not about to do anything to upset business as usual in Washington.
When Gore recently had a momentary outbreak of populist rhetoric, calling the pharmaceutical and insurance giants greedy for opposing Medicare coverage of prescription drugs, Joe jumped forth to boldly assure Wall Street that it need not fear Al's bark.
"There is no rational reason why the markets should be in any way adversely affected by the positions and policies and programs of the Gore?Lieberman ticket," he cooed to the Wall Street Journal. "Political rallies tend not to be places for extremely thoughtful argument," he said with that trademark sly wink, adding, "You have some rhetorical flourishes."
In addition to running for vice president Lieberman's also up for re-election to the Senate, and so far he's taken $265,000 from pharmaceutical and insurance companies. "There's a natural connection between the industries and me," he says shamelessly. "This is a pro-growth, pro-business ticket."