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CHASING OBAMA’S ONE-VOTE
WONDERS Democrats spend big on minorities and the young for an edge in tight races
by Karen Tumulty As political gambles go, it’s a big and
risky one: $50 million to test the prop- osition that the Democratic Party’s outreach to new voters that helped make Barack Obama president can work in an election where his name is not on the ballot. The standard rule of midterm elec- tions is that only the most reliable vot- ers show up at the polls, so both parties have traditionally focused on the un- glamorous and conventional work that turns out their bases. But this year, the Democrats are doubling down on reg- istering and motivating newer voters — especially the 15 million heavily mi- nority and young, who made it to the polls for the first time in the last presi- dential election. “It’s a great experiment to see
whether we can bring out voters whose only previous vote was in 2008,” said Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), chair- man of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The party’s overall budget for reach-
ing new voters is more than twice as big as the $17million it spent during the tumultuous 2006 midterm, which returned control of both houses of Congress to the Democrats. Much about its “Vote 2010” effort has that way-back feel of two years ago: legions of canvassers going door- to-door, a stream of inspirational vid- eos, an e-mail list of more than 13 mil- lion, and ads on Web sites including
Latina.com,
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H by Ann Scott Tyson
Each night, Carolyn Jenkins and her 2- year-old granddaughter, Ava, say their prayers beside the bed they share in a rela- tive’s home. After Ava goes to sleep, Jen- kins turns to a memorial of candles and photos in a corner of the room and speaks to her late daughter, Veronica DuBose, a 29-year-old nursing student who was killed with eight other people a year ago in the Metro Red Line crash. “Am I raising your daughter the right
way?” Jenkins, 52, said she often asks. Ve- ronica “lets me know when I am doing the right thing, because she lets me sleep. . . . It works like that,” she said. The relatives of those killed in the dead- liest accident in Metro’s history have spent the past year dealing with practical hard- ships. They have had to find ways to re- place lost incomes, care for orphaned chil- dren and shift living arrangements to cre- ate new homes. But they live with an
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undreds of mourners, including a large contingent of law enforcement officers, came to the Jericho City of Praise church in Landover to memorialize Wesley Brown, the Maryland State Police officer who was shot and killed June 11 outside a Forestville Applebee’s. The eulogy honored Brown’s selflessness: “He showed us how to serve his brother man, and no one had to beg him to do it.”
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Chinese promise currency changes
BUT BY HOW MUCH OR WHEN IS NOT REVEALED
U.S., others want more level trading ground to boost their exports, jobs
by Keith B. Richburg and John Pomfret
beijing — Facing growing pressure from around the world, China’s central bank an- nounced Saturday that it is prepared to allow the country’s currency to float more freely against the dollar and other foreign currencies, poten- tially raising the cost of Chinese goods. The statement, from a spokesman for the Peo-
ple’s Bank of China, gave no details on when Chi- na would allow its currency — known as the yu- an or the renminbi — to appreciate or by how much. But the timing of its release, just before the leaders of the world’s largest economies gather for a G-20 meeting in Toronto, was clearly aimed at taking pressure off Beijing. Many countries, including the United States,
have criticized China’s fixed exchange rate, which critics say was keeping the country’s ex- ports too cheap and hurting manufacturers and traders worldwide. A group of U.S. senators had even threatened to slap tariffs of as much as 25 percent on all Chinese goods coming into the United States if China did not allow the yuan to appreciate against the dollar. Whether Saturday’s announcement will help
the U.S. economy depends on how much Beijing lets its currency rise. A jump of 20 percent, for example, could cut as much as $150 billion off the U.S. trade deficit with China and create as many as 1million U.S. jobs by making American exports more competitive, according to esti- mates by C. Fred Bergsten of the Peterson In- stitute of International Economics. From 2005 to 2008, China let the yuan appreciate 20 percent against the dollar before it stopped the process while it confronted the global financial crisis. Few economists think China will let the yuan rise by that much, at least not yet. “This is a step in the right direction,” said Bergsten, who has
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iPhone insurgency stirs where BlackBerry rules
by Michael S. Rosenwald Pain, anger persist year after Metro crash LINDA DAVIDSON/THE WASHINGTON POST
the right way?” Carolyn Jenkins, above,
mother of crash victim Veronica DuBose, with DuBose’s 2-year-old daughter, Ava.
“Am I raising your daughter
aching sense of loss that is as raw today as it was in the days after one train slammed into another near Fort Totten Station in Northeast Washington. Some refuse to ride Metro trains; they’re worried about safety and plagued by hor- rific memories. Lawsuits over the crash, which also injured 80 people, are crawling through the courts, and the National Transportation Safety Board won’t an- nounce a formal cause of the accident until late July. As the months have passed, many family members grew bitter over what they see as the indifference of Metro, government offi- cials and the public to their suffering. After early expressions of sympathy,
Metro officials have “showed nothing, no concern at all,” Jenkins said. Metro created a $250,000 relief fund to help survivors and relatives of victims in the immediate aftermath of the crash. Jen- kins said money from that fund helped pay
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Rep. Connie Mack hearts his iPhone. He just wishes his staff would show the love, too. When the Florida Republican began urging his aides to dump their government-issued BlackBer- rys for government-issued iPhones, they mostly ignored him. Only Mack’s chief of staff heeded Apple’s siren call, making him and his boss two of just 86 iPhone users at work in the House of Represen- tatives. Other aides still cling to the familiar, part of a sea of 9,140 BlackBerry stalwarts in the House. This disparity also holds true based on retail sales or a stroll along most any downtown block at lunchtime — evidence that Wash- ington’s attachment to the sturdy, e-mail-focused BlackBerry has been unshakable. No matter that the flashier, more Web-friendly iPhone has reshaped the smart- phone landscape, letting users trade contact information by sim- ply bumping phones or find the nearest Chinese restaurant by tak- ing a picture of a street. Although no one keeps a tally of
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There is quite a discrepancy when it comes to government-issued smartphones among House members and staff.
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government-issued BlackBerrys, they number in the tens of thou- sands, as evidenced by hordes of federal employees tapping away at them on the Metro. Even outside the Beltway, Black-
Berrys still far outnumber iPhones. But the Steve Jobs creation, with its thousands of downloadable ap- plications, overwhelmingly dom- inates the country’s mobile Web usage. Which is why Mack and oth- ers are waging a get-with-it cam-
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