Word: platformization
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...governors gathered in Miami this week won their statehouses by steering away from the rabid right. In 2005, Crist, then Florida's attorney general, declined to help Governor Jeb Bush and religious conservatives in their crusade to keep Terri Schiavo on life support. The following year, on a platform that ignored the culture wars and focused on bipartisan fixes to Florida's nagging property tax and insurance crises, Crist was elected governor in a landslide. His approval ratings since then - despite his difficulties fixing those problems -have been the highest in the state's history. Crist won more kudos last...
...united front of pragmatic conservatives, like current parliamentary speaker and former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani and former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and reformists like former President Mohammed Khatami. And just as it was the economy that got Ahmadinejad elected in 2005 on a populist chicken-in-every-pot platform, so could the failing economy prove his undoing. Many of Iran's glaring economic deficiencies (including inflation, youth unemployment and, ironically, fuel scarcity) were cushioned during Ahmadinejad's tenure by soaring petroleum prices. Falling world oil prices will spur a crisis in Iran that will make international sanctions more painful...
...Wagner also warned that no matter how large of a contrast Obama’s platform seems from Bush’s, it is always difficult to gauge the political winds in Washington...
Zafran also said the Dems, which is the largest political organization on campus, will focus on promoting the Democratic platform more locally. Activities will include publishing op-eds and engaging in formal debates with their Republican counterparts...
...eyes are on the Stevens race. If he wins, it certainly won't lift the heavy heart of Alaska governor and vanquished vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Relations between Stevens and Palin are icy. She ran for governor on a platform that railed against the kind of corruption that Stevens now represents. And now that the McCain/Palin ticket has been punched, it may add insult to injury for her to discover her beloved Alaska constituents actually prefer crotchety legislators who bring home the bacon...