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This enthusiasm and broad support is why the Hillary campaign has forsaken former President Clinton's snipes suggesting an identity-candidate equivalency between Obama and Jesse Jackson. In their press releases on the Saturday caucus results, Clinton flacks pointed out that Obama won by virtue of higher spending and better organization. Well, yes - that's how elections are typically won. If that dynamic holds, along with the Obama campaign's ability to bring new voters into the process, Obama seems well positioned to make good on the poll-test argument that he stacks up better against a McCain candidacy...
Thomas Michel ’77, a professor of medicine who leads the education advisory group, stressed that planning on his committee was “very much a work in progress,” but said the group was considering a broad range of issues—from debt burden to distance learning...
...tread lightly here - the classic high school girl/boy differential: the note-taking, front-row girl grind vs. the charismatic, last-minute-cramming, preening male finesse artist. Both Clinton and Obama have difficulties reaching across those divides, and that is where the fear resides: neither candidate may prove strong or broad enough. As this campaign progresses, their weaknesses - the reasons for their inability to put away this nomination - are going to become more apparent than their strengths...
...skipped the event; last year, he was booed in absentia. "He won't get a poor reception at CPAC; he'll get a mixed reception," says McCain adviser Charlie Black, who promises that McCain's conservative endorsements will be showcased at the event. "The conservative movement is a very broad group... I've been booed over the years." But, he added, "anybody who speaks [at CPAC], including Senator McCain, will get majority support...
...Although this piece can only begin to address the broad legal scope of this issue, it deserves to be said that requiring absentee voters to pay postage on their ballots seems to violate the spirit, if not the letter, of the 24th Amendment. The amendment reads, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason...