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...public funding, Kerry has also pledged to restrict his spending to the $45 million figure, but only until the last primaries in March. While it might be tempting to adhere to public financing restrictions, it will hurt the eventual nominee. All non-negative campaigning ultimately works to the Democrat??€™s advantage in the November election: the earlier the Democrats can build strong name- and policy-recognition among voters, the better their chances against the incumbent’s staggering momentum. Setting fundraising ability as the only bounds to spending, as Dean pledges to do, is likely a sounder...
...corporate cronies—Halliburton, Bechtel et al—while using the afterglow of victory to cow those who might object. The same administration that used patriotism as a gag on dissent is responsible for a treasonous leak that, if it had happened under a Democrat??€™s watch, would have Republicans calling for capital punishment for the perpetrators...
...arguing against vouchers and for putting more funding into D.C. schools is a Democrat??€™s worst nightmare. As it stands, the District’s schools spend nearly 50 percent more money per student than that nationwide average. And yet, the results of the spending are abyssmal. In this light, defending a budgetary black hole like the status quo doesn’t seem to be viable. One organization, Stop D.C. Vouchers, an organization supported by the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, the two largest teachers’ unions, has merely advised voucher opponents...
Although Sen. John Edwards’ presidential bid has failed to gain traction among New Hampshire primary voters thus far, the North Carolina Democrat??€™s slated Oct. 13 appearance at Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP) is generating quite a buzz on campus...
...Kentucky Democrat??€”whose 24-year Congressional tenure included stances against both President Nixon’s Vietnam policy and abortion, denunciation of special-interest campaign financing and sponsorship of the Immigration Reform Act of 1986—spent three months last year as Visiting Fellow at KSG, where he led a discussion group on immigration...