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...numbers support this theory. All told, the Pudding punched some 115 students this spring, who were joined by only 30 additional “non-punch” candidates. The process may have been open, but a full 80 percent of those considered for membership received an official invitation...
...might open punch’s fledgling flight ultimately turn into something greater—a chink in the calcified armor of social institutions far too opposed to change for their own good...
...course, which is open to current players and retirees, has become increasingly popular since its inception six years...
...attorney general who is running for the state's U.S. Senate seat, offered a tepid appraisal when asked recently if he expected Obama to campaign for him. "I don't know whether he would and I don't know whether we would ask. At this point, it is an open question," Blumenthal told students at Yale University in New Haven. Last month, red-state Republican operatives sounded giddy about the prospect of an Obama visit. "The Democrats can't run away from the position of their party; they can't run away from their President," Chris Devaney, chairman...
...Despite recent Pew and CNN/Opinion Research polls in which 49% of respondents said they approved of Obama's performance, the President remains a more popular figure than either party as a whole. Nor is there any question that he retains an unparalleled ability to pry open checkbooks. But analysts are beginning to wonder whether his endorsement is still a game-changing asset. In recent statewide races in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts, "vigorous efforts by Obama could not produce the Obama surge with voters at the polls," says Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University...