| GOP Candidates Focus On South Carolina
Two polls out today confirm McCain's frontrunner status in the state. The Greenville (SC) News reports that a Clemson University poll "of 450 prospective" South Carolina GOP primary voters conducted Jan. 9-16 shows McCain leading with 29%, followed by Huckabee, 22%; Romney, 13%; and Thompson, 10%. However, "nearly 40 percent of the respondents said they were unsure how they would vote in Saturday's Republican presidential primary." A Zogby International poll out this morning shows McCain leading in South Carolina with 29%, followed by Huckabee, 22%; Fred Thompson, 14%; Romney, 12%; Paul, 5%; and Giuliani, 5%. Commenting on the results, pollster John Zogby said this morning, "There was no discernible bump for Romney coming out of Michigan. We are also seeing that any pickup for Fred Thompson hurts Mike Huckabee in this race, which is as close as any we have seen." The poll surveyed 815 likely GOP primary voters from January 14-16.
The Other Women to Watch
Mulcahy had a next act after she helped engineer Xerox's recovery from a near financial collapse in 2001. She also has expanded Xerox's business beyond traditional copiers and printers into the computer systems used by customers to manage documents. After radically paring back Xerox's debt, she has leveraged the company's financial strength in the past 18 months to buy three smaller companies that make software for managing legal evidence, mortgage originations and personalized mailings. Ms. Mulcahy, 54 years old, has said she doesn't have any plans for retirement. But this year, the Xerox board named an heir apparent, long-time lieutenant Ursula Burns, to replace Ms. Mulcahy as president. --William M. Bulkeley * * * .
Economists Debate the Quickest Cure
President Bush highlighted both those basic approaches on Friday in setting out his principles for a deal with Congress to address the current downturn. Democrats are also likely to seek increased spending for programs like unemployment insurance or to funnel more money to states, an approach that Mr. Bush signaled he would oppose. "The research I've seen indicates that the programs in 2001 clearly worked," Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. said in an interview, referring to the tax measures. "They worked quickly, and people spent the money they got. The thing we should be looking at now is how to make them even more effective." The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reported this week that each of the three elements of the 2001-2 stimulus personal tax rebates, incentives for business investment and government spending programs played a role in lifting the economy.
Man jumps from overpass onto busy I-5
A 27-year-old man who jumped from the Interstate 5 overpass near Pike Street on Tuesday morning was taken to Harborview Medical Center with multiple fractures, according to a spokeswoman for the Seattle Fire Department. He is in serious condition. The first report of a man on the overpass came just before 8:15 a.m. while the freeway was still congested with morning commuters. Two lanes on northbound I-5 near Olive way were closed for about 30 minutes. .
Candidates work the strip for voter jackpot
On Friday, the young mother answered the door in her working-class neighborhood and was startled to find the speaker of the California Assembly, Fabian Nez, with a horde of reporters in his wake. The powerful Democratic Latino leader was clutching an "America con Hillary" bumper sticker and a lawn sign, working the city's vast Latino neighborhoods on behalf of the campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. "Hillary has experience," he told her earnestly in Spanish. "She can help us ... on issues like immigration reform." Nez said he understood that the powerful Culinary Workers Union, to which many Latinos such as Reyes belong, had endorsed Illinois Sen. Barack Obama. But "people are saying they want to vote for who we think is best," he said.
Spreading wings as Falcon
That is something I learned from New England, really and truly believing in the team concept and one common goal, and that is ever forward toward excellence. "Again, it's indisputable role understanding so everyone knows where they fit. Let's not have any surprises here. Let's be communicative, let's be positive, let's be passionate, let's be persevering. I believe if you have those types of people around you, this can be a good journey." Dimitroff, who is married with a seven-month old son, was based in Boulder, Colo., while scouting for the Patriots. His hiring in New England came as a result of a connection he had made with Pioli in the early 1990s, when Pioli was working in the Browns personnel department and Dimitroff, a native of Barberton, Ohio, was performing various part-time jobs at the facility (one of his responsibilities was to help line the playing fields).
Primaries post most agonizing choices
If it's any consolation, this is the hard part. When it comes time for the general election campaign, voters will be faced with a clear choice on the major issues. The primaries, meanwhile, are forcing us to figure out not just who the candidates are, but who we are as well. On what is now the issue of greatest concern, according to surveys -- the flagging economy -- Democrats and Republicans truly seem to live in different solar systems. All three leading Democratic contenders have set forth elaborate stimulus plans, all three have ideas for rescuing families caught in the subprime mortgage trap, and all three serve up their proposals with great heaping buckets of empathy. Message: They care. On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee does the empathy part but then shifts quickly to his weird idea about replacing the income tax with a consumption tax.
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