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...with nine candidates dividing up the votes there, someone might be able to win with as little as 20% of the vote. Given these numbers and the fact that 40% of South Carolina Democrats opposed the war, that someone could be Dean--a candidate, even his own strategists admit, who wouldn't have a prayer of winning a Southern primary in a smaller field. "In a nine-person field, Dean is in the driver's seat," says Donna Brazile, who managed Al Gore's 2000 campaign. Still, no one seems inclined to drop out, because each sees himself...
...also two of the first that are impossible to understand without (and, arguably, with) compendious footnotes and critical apparatuses. All of a sudden you knew something was literary because it was difficult. You either got it or you didn't, and if you didn't, you didn't admit it. As much as Americans like to be democratic in our politics, we have become aristocratic in our aesthetics...
...first to admit that putting a woman in the White House is an appealing idea. Having more female senators, House representatives and governors wouldn’t be so bad either. But marketing femininity does not fly in politics. If women are really going to “break through the glass ceiling” (as we like to say) it will not be by playing the gender card. Women should be elected on their political merit—not their chromosomes. I have no doubt that our first female president will be elected in due time, and when...
McNamara does admit that he made mistakes, but he never fully takes responsibility for his misdeeds. It is as if he believes that the domino theory applies to him—that a single avowal of guilt will collapse his entire line of defense...
Then he checks himself, unable to even admit the possibility that he won’t fulfill any challenge that the Harvard, the Ivy League, or even destiny sets before...