(RNS) In the wake of historic victories for gay rights supporters in last month's elections, a pair of USA Today/Gallup Polls find growing acceptance among Americans toward gay men and lesbians -- and soaring optimism among gay Americans that issues involving homosexuality will one day no longer divide the nation.
After $6 billion, two dozen presidential primary election days, a pair of national conventions, four general election debates, hundreds of Congressional contests and more television advertisements than anyone would ever want to watch, the two major political parties in America essentially fought to a standstill.
If Listening Bush's poll numbers hold up until election day, a pair of brothers will be governing a pair of states for the first time since the Rockefellers a quarter of a century ago.
This was an unusually interesting speech, especially during this dreary runup to a general election struggle between a pair of mainstream parties spooked by poor polls, fast-changing politics and insurgent forces to left and right.
When they shift back into campaign mode on Saturday, Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, will bring to a close the first week of the general election campaign with a pair of huge campaign rallies in Ohio and Virginia that are intended to rekindle memories of his 2008 campaign.
He also found time to loathe the prospect of a Tory victory in the election and had sent a pair of canvassers away with their tails between their legs.
Up until the end of last week, there were widespread concerns among American and European diplomats, whose countries bankroll the Afghan government and security forces, that a pair of election laws crucial to next year's vote would not be passed before Parliament adjourned for the summer.
Over the weekend at Def Con, the annual hacker convention in Las Vegas to discuss some of the latest and greatest (or scariest) trends in the wild world of hacking, a pair of election security hacking demonstrations set up for adults and kids alike offered up some frightening revelations about America's voting infrastructure.
Conservative speakers came to lobby for what election-wonks call a "sandwich": a pair of constituencies made up of urban, suburban and rural slices.
But the low turnout may have been prompted more by ballot fatigue than anything else: the Sunday vote, which included the election of town and neighborhood legislative councils, was the seventh in two years, including a pair of presidential elections and a series of votes to draw up and approve a new Constitution.
