But overall, all involved are optimistic that the time is ripe to make the biggest changes to the nation's immigration laws in more than a quarter-century.

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Bullishness on these fronts is keeping investors optimistic on the second quarter, even with stocks at fresh all-time highs.

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And I am optimistic about something else: When the debates have ended, and all the ads have run, and it is time to vote, Americans will look closely at the judgment, the experience, and the policies of the candidates, and they will cast their ballots for the McCain-Palin ticket.

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Here I had been teaching these young people about the slow erosion of our financial and economic underpinnings, each year turning more and more cynical and stoic at the same time, all without encouraging them to go out and make a difference in an optimistic way or offering solutions.

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Furthermore, this ratio ranks below 83% of all those taken during the past year, indicating that traders have been more optimistic toward TXN only 17% of the time in the prior 52 weeks.

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