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Democratic Senator Barack Obama and former New York City Republican mayor Rudolph Giuliani lead as the presidential nominees for their respective parties among 18 to 24 year-olds, the Institute of Politics (IOP) reported in a poll released yesterday. The IOP poll found that Democratic youngsters, unlike the rest of their party, support Obama—the junior Democratic senator from Illinois—over New York Senator Hillary Clinton. Among the Democrats’ youngest voters, Obama leads Clinton 35 to 28 percent. According the latest national Gallup poll of Democratic voters of all ages, Clinton leads Obama...
...Union Leader reported this week. If she decides to run, the race could immediately become one of the 2008 cycle’s marquee Senate races. But Shaheen, the former governor of New Hampshire who came to Harvard in 2005, has yet to decide whether she will leave her IOP post to run for office. “She’s really enjoying her work here with students and faculty, and we really enjoy working for her,” Esten Perez, IOP’s director of communications, said yesterday. “She’s focused...
Will Tommy Thompson or Mike Huckabee win your vote for U.S. president? While these two Republican candidates are relatively unknown, senior advisers for their campaigns contested that these dark-horse contenders will outlast the big-name politicians in the 2008 campaign at an Institute of Politics (IOP) forum yesterday. The event, part of the “Campaign 2008: Looking Ahead” series, featured top strategists for former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, former Ark. Governor Mike Huckabee, and former Wis. Governor Tommy Thompson. While the representatives for Huckabee and Thompson touted their candidates’ credentials, Gingrich?...
...spotlights of the John F. Kennedy Forum at the Institute of Politics (IOP) highlighted an unconventional group of guests this Monday evening, as the IOP entertained a full house with a blast from the past. Actors from L.A. Theatre Works presented their rendition of “The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial,” adapted from the original transcripts of the 1925 trial of John Scopes, a science teacher charged with teaching evolution in the classroom. The trial was the first of its kind to be sensationalized in the media through the radio, and it was the nation?...
Harvard’s budding “rhetorical Doctor Frankensteins” learned the tricks of the trade Friday from the first woman chief of the White House speechwriting office. Institute of Politics (IOP) fellow Chriss A. Winston, President George H. W. Bush’s onetime head speechwriter, took a few dozen undergraduates on a two-hour tutorial about how to “take a colorless, passionless, humorless lump of words and somehow mold that into a speech that has life and lift.” Having a clear core message—“preferably...