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...major transformative Democratic president,” he said. Galston, also a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, said that structural effects such as the condition of the economy and the unpopularity of the Iraq war prefigured the election results. He also offered a critique of the McCain campaign. “I will make my colleague very unhappy when I say this,” Galston added. “I do not think the choice of Governor Palin was well-considered.” On Monday, Kristol said on Fox News that Palin “reminds...
...After former IOP Director Jeanne Shaheen stepped down in 2007 to begin her successful campaign for one of New Hampshire’s U.S. Senate seats, the Institute tapped Purcell as her replacement following a year-long search...
...Environmental activists have long criticized the Bush administration’s policies of deregulation in favor of energy interests, including its abandonment of a campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide...
...image was a doctored advertisement aimed at Cuban-American voters circulated by the Florida Republican Party. In a presentation at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society yesterday, government Professor D. Sunshine Hillygus showed this advertisement and others, arguing that the Internet has not only changed how politicians campaign, but also what they tell voters. Hillygus focused on data from the 2004 election to describe the political strategy of “microtargetting,” in which candidates take stances on divisive issues using direct mail and e-mail advertisements, like the purported Castro endorsement, that are tailored...
Senior U.S. military officials will likely advise Barack Obama to adjust his campaign pledge to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by mid-2010. While promising a 16-month timetable for getting all U.S. fighting forces out, Obama repeatedly insisted on what he calls a "responsible" withdrawal. Pulling nearly all U.S. troops and equipment out of Iraq in 16 months is "physically impossible," says a top officer involved in briefing the President-elect on U.S. operations in Iraq. That schedule would create a bottleneck of equipment and troops in the south of Iraq and Kuwait where brigades repair, clean...