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...When it comes down to it, Steven Colbert is right: I am America (And so can you!). Partisan politics aside, we citizens of the USA do commonly value freedom and democracy. I look to 2008 and hope that our next government is truly of the people, by the people and for the people—and that includes of, by, and for America’s youth. So go out, and cast your ballot—in the name of liberty, and for every disenfranchised young person in the world who would die for the opportunity...
...know she hopes to be a kind of conciliator of all the different points of view and factions at Harvard, and that would clearly be related in some way to her role as an historian, in that she’s never been a strong partisan as a historian, and she’s always been open to interpretations that are not her own,” McPherson says...
...lingering suspicion that it might all be a pipe dream. After all, it’s easy to talk about changing the political system on the campaign trail; it’s much more difficult to put it into practice in the harsh Washington world of backroom deals and partisan squabbles...
...also more concerned with achieving results than with touting partisan ideology. He reduced welfare rolls by 18 percent by adopting President Clinton’s “workfare” approach to fighting poverty...
...issue, and 13% of Republicans. But the existence of this subgroup of McBamas suggests that some voters remain open-minded about different solutions to Iraq. Some voters are able to put aside the war entirely in evaluating candidates. John Weaver, a former McCain adviser, explains that "for the less partisan voter, presidential campaigns are about character, and judgment, and trustworthiness...