Word: leached
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...Young people have never had a greater vested interest in politics,” Leach said. “It isn’t grandfathers who are asked to go into the armed forces or potentially face a draft. And on economic issues, young people have an interest in fiscal reasonableness—if you amass fabulous debt, the people who are going to pay for that are those who are just now entering the workforce...
...Leach, a moderate Republican and former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, was defeated for reelection in 2006 by a first-time candidate, marking one of the biggest surprises of a cycle in which Republicans lost 30 seats in the House...
...Many experts blamed his defeat on a toxic political environment caused by the deteriorating situation in Iraq, even though Leach himself had opposed the war from the start...
...Since his loss, Leach has served as a visiting professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. He is on leave from the school for the next year...
...attempted to recruit Leach for a fellowship in the spring, but he ultimately chose to take the position at Princeton, according to Alexander I. Burns ’08, the editor of the Harvard Political Review and member of the IOP’s student advisory committee...