#working-class-voters

#working-class-voters

Day and night, I held his hand hoping he would make it. I knew he had admired Jackson's first presidential bid in 1984 and the courage-some called it audacity-required to run at all. So I told him about the huge, overwhelmingly white crowds Jackson was drawing in places like Iowa and Wisconsin. There was a refrain Jackson had been using in Iowa to convince

The center-left Social Democrats (SPD), Germany's first political party, are struggling to muster their optimism in a year when five of Germany's 16 federal states are set to elect new parliaments. According to the latest opinion polls, the SPD could be voted out of power in two states that is has governed for decades. In two others, the SPD is polling in the single digits.

The center-left Social Democrats (SPD), Germany's first political party, are struggling to muster their optimism in a year when five of Germany's 16 federal states are set to elect new parliaments. According to the latest opinion polls, the SPD could be voted out of power in two states that is has governed for decades. In two others, the SPD is polling in the single digits.

It's the last day to register. He's just moved to a new town for a job and has been working doubles at the factory for weeks on end. When he arrives at the clerk's office, he's informed he'll need papers to prove he's a citizen. But he's lost his birth certificate in the move, he's never had a passport, and they tell him his driver's license doesn't do the trick.