Driving along the highway, you spot a billboard advertising something and it makes you want to get a second look - from your couch. That's the alternate reality video gamers encounter these days as campaign politicking meets playtime.
On Saturday, Nov. 15, President-elect Barack Obama spoke directly to the American people through a platform unfamiliar to past presidents-YouTube. Connecting the White House and the American home has been an important part of the presidency since Franklin Roosevelt held his fireside chats over the radio. But Obama, who utilized the Internet more than any candidate in history, has decided to fulfill that role through Web videos.
Pro-life campaigners failed to carry three ballot initiatives that banned abortion to term earlier this month after Election Day defeats in California, Colorado and South Dakota. However, the growing split in the anti-abortion movement pitting traditionalists, opposed to all abortions, and the pragmatists, that condone abortion in the event of rape or incest, possibly led to an internal meltdown.