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...traveled to Texas to campaign for Obama—a trip that Zuckerman said was the reason he ultimately decided to take this semester off. The social studies concentrator and Lowell House resident cited government professor Michael J. Sandel—who teaches the perennially popular Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice”—as another key factor in bringing him to this level of political involvement. Zuckerman said that while he takes issue with some aspects of the communitarian ethic that Sandel espouses, the two courses he took with Sandel last year...
...Definitely there is election fatigue. [But] a lot of independents in New Hampshire are really fans of McCain,” Motley said. The most recent poll by the University of New Hampshire put McCain at 41 percent and Obama at 52 percent of the popular vote in the state. But Zafran said, “The only poll that really matters is the poll on Election...
...Dole, by contrast, faced numbers much more dire than McCain in the final weeks of his race. A 1996 Gallup tracking poll found Dole with just 35% of the national popular vote on the eve of election, compared to 51% for Clinton and 8% for Ross Perot. On election day, Dole carried 19 states and 41% of the vote, compared to Clinton's 31 states and 49% share...
...opposite corner, Obama is projected to win big in Cleveland, Akron and Canton, which were suffering long before Wall Street imploded. McCain's two-day bus tour through the region this week was aimed at trying to pick off a few outlying, affluent suburbs where his tax plan is popular. Yet Obama still looks strong there. "If Obama can run up big numbers in the suburbs outside Cleveland, then this thing could be a blowout," says Mike Curtin, publisher emeritus of The Columbus Dispatch...
...Instead, Americans need the pragmatic leadership that Barack Obama has amply demonstrated during his career in public service. Proving this maturity, he rejected a politically popular gas tax holiday last summer that would have reduced federal revenue without saving consumers money. He bases his decisions on science and empirical research, which the Bush administration has so emphatically rejected. James Heckman, a Nobel laureate in economics asked to review policy proposals by the Obama campaign, testified to this, noting, “I’ve never worked with a campaign that was more interested in what the research shows...