Word: platforms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Risch defeated four rivals to fill the seat vacated by Senator Larry Craig, who retired after getting ensnarled in a sex scandal. Risch, a Republican and former lieutenant governor, ran on a tax-cut platform but had to defend himself against charges that he had ducked the Vietnam draft...
...direction, “Obama didn’t take the bait,” Schwartz said, casting a negative light on McCain’s campaign. The two candidates’ approaches to engaging the public were also drastically different, Schwartz said. While Obama’s platform centered around the mantra of “We can fight together,” she said, McCain message was more, “I will fight for you.” Schwartz said that she thought that Obama’s message made it easier for him to rally voters...
...chance to question the former U.S. Treasury Secretary about hot-button economic issues in advance of today’s national elections. Summers, who currently serves as an advisor to Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, made no secret of his allegiances when asked to offer his opinions on the platforms of the two major party candidates. “I can only answer that question with no pretense of objectivity,” Summers said at one point, drawing laughter from the nearly 30 people in attendance at the event. “The difference in economic approaches by either...
...There’s nothing wrong with appealing to the base of the Republican Party,” says Weatherl, who lists pro-life policies, homeland security, and traditional family values as the keystones of the Republican platform. “I don’t think that that appeal to middle America is necessarily something that contrasts with intellectual debates. You can argue those issues that are important to the base in an intellectual...
...standing by his party and its platform, Weatherl sent a message that thoughtfully engaging with liberals on campus did not require Harvard Republicans to apologize for their beliefs. Whatever necessary changes in image the HRC undertook, their Republican ideology would remain intact...