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...Democratic hopeful in New Hampshire’s 2008 Senate race—but she still hasn’t said whether or not she will throw her hat into the ring. After a top aide to New Hampshire Governor John Lynch confirmed last Thursday that the first-term Democrat doesn’t intend to run for senator, Shaheen became the party’s best chance to win the ’08 race, observers say. Shaheen, who was appointed IOP chief in 2005, served three terms as the Granite State’s first female governor before...
...Rocket to the White House? Americans are so desperate for a hero and someone we can trust, we are looking to create a President out of a first-term Senator [Oct. 23]. Wherever he goes, Barack Obama is asked the same question: "Will you run?" Let this man get his political legs under him and step forward when he is ready. Peter K. Ehrle Oak Park, Illinois...
Should Barack Obama run for president in 2008? The first-term Democratic senator from Illinois caused major political waves Sunday when he revealed on “Meet the Press” that he has given some thought to running for the White House in two years. Previously he had said that he would finish his six-year term in the Senate before considering a presidential...
...Talent's breast cancer awareness effort is personal and heartfelt: his mother died of the disease in 1988. But like everything a candidate does in campaign season, the pink arch event was also high-wattage politics - part of a massive push by the first-term incumbent Senator to woo nearly two million other women: those registered to vote in Missouri. Talent did an Arbor Day event and a $300,000 fundraiser with the First Lady the same day. He has a dedicated campaign arm called "Women for Talent" that has held nine events since July. His top pollster, Linda DiVall...
Cambridge Public School Committee members questioned whether a proposed roundtable discussion on the system’s declining enrollment would detract from other pressing school issues at a meeting last night. The motion to host the roundtable with the City Council, proposed by first-term committee members Luc Schuster and Patricia M. Nolan ’80, came in response to City Councillor Craig A. Kelley’s statment at a meeting of the city’s Finance Committee last Thursday that Cambridge could not continue to “pour money into a school system that...