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The magic of '08 has been replaced by apathy typical in midterm elections. But Obama's foot soldiers, using a personal approach, are working hard to keep Democrats in power. Two years after President Obama's historic election, echoes of the grass-roots campaign that put him over the top in battleground states like Minnesota can still be heard on the University of Minnesota campus. "Fired up?" shouts youth coordinator Mike Griffin, a staffer with Organizing for America, the street division of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), sometimes dubbed Obama's Army. "Ready to go!" comes the reply from a gaggle of volunteers with...

Vanity - I listened to Glenn Beck today build up to how he was going to vote for Lieberman who I know is the better pick over the Democrat. But Beck went on one of the tirades about how the Republican and Democrats are the same with their only interest being in getting elected. That kind of relativism ticks me off because their is an objective difference between the two parties. Granted there are bad Republicans, but by and large they are more principled, moral, and favorable to conservatism than are the Democrats. I'm just waiting for Beck to see...