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At just 25 years old, Michael Blake may have more to do with Barack Obama's chances of becoming President than anyone besides the candidate himself. That may sound like a stretch, but Blake has the all-important job of bringing in new Iowa voters to caucus for the Illinois...
The former Vermont governor bet that more college and high school students, inspired by his insurgent candidacy, would turn out to caucus for him. Instead, he ended up coming in third in 2004 behind Kerry and former North Carolina Senator John Edwards. And while Obama could certainly suffer as surprising...
That a stump speech could have such power would seem unlikely in an age when the lingua franca of politics is scripted in 30-sec. commercials by media consultants and pollsters. But the resonance came from Edwards' own life story as the son of a millworker who grew up to...
But even a committed Democratic Administration in 2009 will have limits. Chief among them is that any successor to Kyoto needs to be "global," to use Kerry's word - meaning that some of the burden will have to be shared by developing nations whose rapid economic growth will make them...
That principle helped shape Kyoto in a way that mostly gave developing nations a free pass. But, as Kerry pointed out, warming "is not a per-capita issue; it's a global emissions issue." The climate system doesn't care how little carbon each Indian is responsible for, if collectively...