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...were having lunch with Ken Mehlman, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee, and you asked him, “Why did George Bush win the last presidential election?” Mehlman’s answer would sound a lot like an investment banker’s. His words would be complemented by heaps of data and statistics that elucidate not only why voters made the choice they did, but where the country is moving...
...Mehlman would say: America is changing. Contrary to conventional wisdom, our political parties are very strong. Most independents are actually partisans who refuse to describe themselves as such. The number of “ticket-splitters” has been cut in half since 1988—from 16 to eight percent. And our country is closely divided. Until last year, no presidential candidate had won a majority of the popular vote since the President’s father ran 17 years ago. Americans face a wealth of information, and a poverty of attention. The average home...
...early 1960s, we knew about this man,” said Jeffrey S. Mehlman ’65, professor of French Literature at Boston University, who attended Norwood’s lecture. “He was known as a good musician, and the big story was that Harvard was so powerful it had friends all over the world on all sides of every issue...
...international celebrity, a good musician, and that was enough for his classmates,” Mehlman said...
...Mehlman, the Harvard alum, said that while Hanfstaengl was “no portrait in moral courage,” Professor Norwood “may have been naïve to be that shocked, given the sense that Jews had been systematically excluded from Harvard in the 1930s...