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...While the Democratic channel changed from Happy Days to The Ultimate Fighter, Republicans settled on their standard-bearer. John McCain's final challenger, Mike Huckabee, bowed out with a smile. The G.O.P. can begin regrouping and mobilizing for the general election this fall while the Democrats pitch headlong into an intramural scrum that could leave their nominee - whoever wins - scarred and limping. Donna Brazile, an at-large member of the Democratic National Committee, urged party chairman Howard Dean to intervene before matters get out of hand. (Dean remains largely out of the fight, saying in a statement only that...
Contrary to those who consider Obama an inexperienced leader and a bearer of empty rhetoric, Cutler said that the candidate possesses a healthy combination of general goals and specific, carefully weighed methods of implementation...
...results showed the clearest picture yet of the Republican nomination fight. McCain has both cemented his position as the Republican front-runner, and failed to win the support of much of his party's conservative base. Romney has also failed, thus far, to establish himself as the clear standard-bearer for that conservative movement, especially in the South, where Huckabee holds an obvious claim to the evangelical vote...
...position - no "amnesty," crack down on employers who break the law - has had little trouble earning credibility among the state's more hard-line immigration activists. Last week, the anti-immigration movement's standard-bearer, Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo, dropped out of the race and threw his support to Romney. But on the ground in Iowa, most of Tancredo's support appears to have shifted to Thompson, including former U.S. Senate candidate Bill Salier, who was Tancredo's state campaign director, and Angie Weaver Anderson, who ran the western end of the state for Tancredo. "I don't know anybody...
...switching buildings to more efficient lighting technologies is near the head of the pack, meaning that the longer we wait, the more money we lose (or don’t save). According to the report, installation of light emitting diodes (LEDs), the industry’s standard-bearer, in residences saves the American economy $90 for each ton of greenhouse gas it eliminates.But a technology discussed in September’s Economist Technology Quarterly will make LEDs seem like a thing of the past. Whereas LEDs use only 15 percent of the energy put into them to create light...