Word: iowa
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...Mitt Romney, repeating his win in the state that launched the Arizona veteran’s strong showing in the 2000 presidential primaries. Clinton’s victory, by a three point margin with 96 percent of precints reporting, came less than a week after Obama won the Iowa caucuses—a victory that had appeared to give Obama, a Harvard Law School graduate, significant momentum. But Clinton’s Harvard supporters said that their candidate was not to be underestimated. “Everyone left her for dead after Iowa, and that was just foolish given...
...ballooning size of university coffers, some legislators have sought to require that educational institutions spend at least 5 percent of their endowment annually. “The donations to those endowments and the endowments themselves are all tax-exempt,” said Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), who has championed the 5 percent mandate, in a statement Monday. “American taxpayers are subsidizing that tax-exemption, and they deserve public benefit in return.” Yale previously targeted an endowment payout rate of 5.25 percent and Harvard currently aims for 5 percent, but both universities...
...that after his second-straight silver medal - to use Romney's favorite Olympian metaphor - he plans to roll onto his native Michigan with his new-old campaign themes in place. On the surface, at least, the campaign will stick to the messages they turned to after their defeat in Iowa: competence and change, no longer his conservative credentials. "The governor's experience as a solution-oriented guy, a turnaround CEO, is a particularly good fit in Michigan," says his national spokesman, Kevin Madden. "We can win there with a focus on the economy and showing the governor is someone...
With Clinton besting Obama by only two points in New Hampshire, the contest - and the spin - will only get more hysterical as it moves to Nevada (Jan. 19) and South Carolina (Jan. 26). It remains to be seen which was the exception: Iowa's surge of young and new voters for Obama, or a return to the expected Democratic base turning out for Clinton in New Hampshire...
...Republicans move on to Michigan, where Romney - the Salt Lake City Olympic organizer who continues to tout his electoral "silver" medals - desperately needs a gold. Romney's long-stated strategy was to win Iowa and New Hampshire through aggressive campaigning and big spending. He fought mightily to rescue his New Hampshire campaign, dominating the final pre-election debate and deploying a massive phone bank to make 100,000 last-minute phone calls to prospective voters. But his mid-day confidence wilted as McCain's grew into the evening. In a sign he is learning how to lose, he called McCain...