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...cliche in politics that sometimes concession speeches are so good, folks wonder why they hadn't seen this candidate all along. Think back to Al Gore in 2000 or John Kerry in 2004. On the campaign trail Clinton often got wonky; in Pennsylvania a staffer remarked to me that, though boring to reporters, this was the secret to her success with the middle class. Indeed, audiences, especially those who were economically depressed, paid rapt attention to her lists of proposed legislative acts. In leaving the race, Clinton left the lists at home and her rhetoric soared as high...
...been more than a century since any major producer shipped oil in an actual barrel, but the unit has been the industry's standard since the mid-1800s, when overwhelmed Pennsylvania oilmen collected the substance in whiskey barrels after striking their first gushers. Before U.S. drilling began in 1859, "rock oil" (to differentiate it from vegetable oil or animal fat) was sopped up with rags, wrung out and peddled as a cure for everything from headaches to deafness. Spurred by demand for lamp fuel as whale blubber grew scarce, derricks popped up all over Pennsylvania's oil region...
...purpose, both in and out of class, and remarkably little self-absorption. Nobody tried to take over University Hall this spring, but quite a few of my students did give up long weekends without sleep or pay to campaign for their favorite candidates in New Hampshire, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Instead of seeking change through self-indulgent and often self-defeating street tactics, these students sought a path to change in Iraq—and in other areas—through disciplined election work. And they got results, mobilizing enough caucus goers and primary voters to upset the Democratic Party establishment...
...health care reform and entitlement spending. Hispanics and working class whites and blacks are likely to have varying perspectives on immigration reform. Well-traveled, tech-savvy young college graduates are going to view globalization and international environmental crises a little differently from laid-off manufacturing workers in Ohio and Pennsylvania...
...fray? A number of Clinton's top advisers, especially in the finance and policy realms, thought Clinton's best course of action was to make herself immediately indispensable: offer her fund-raising team to Obama, offer to barnstorm with him through states where she did well, like Ohio and Pennsylvania, offer to mobilize her key constituencies - like women and Latinos - for Obama in a series of joint rallies. It seemed obvious that if she pressed her unlikely case for the vice presidency too aggressively, Obama would have to deny it or risk seeming weak and unpresidential. Given the freight train...