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What's in Store for '07 In your discussion on the upcoming French presidential elections in the What's Next package [March 19], you neglected to mention the role of François Bayrou, the popular leader of the Union for French Democracy and former Education Minister. He has been rising in the polls more rapidly than Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal and is positioned to determine who will be France's next President. He will be able to sway votes to either Sarkozy or Royal - or even become Jacques Chirac's successor. Michael Bayer...
...eventual nomination in 1980. Buchanan also thinks a later primary could help candidates like Democratic New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson who have "great resumes, but a low profile." An early Texas primary would likely benefit the deep-pocketed, organized front-runners, Buchanan says. What's more, with early voting - popular in Texas where 34% of the general election ballots were cast early in 2004 - ballots would be cast at local grocery stores and community centers on Jan. 19, three days ahead of the New Hampshire primary, giving non-front-runners even less time to make an impression. Divining whether Texas...
This, of course, would hardly surprise his army of fans. With 19 records to his name, Broza is a veritable legend in some places. During many of his most popular songs, the audience’s collective voice overwhelmed Broza’s, joining in with music that seems to have become as much theirs...
...leave my accent alone. I have been using it before he and his mother were here. There is indeed a “Harvard accent,” and I freely admit to being a mature representative of it. I direct my critic to the remark of the once-popular cultural critic, George Ade, who declared that his alma mater, Purdue, “gives you everything that Harvard does, except the pronunciation of a as in father.” Perhaps Mr. Bartenstein would be happier at Purdue, or perhaps at Suffolk University where he could wallow in Blue...
...Louisiana public service commissioner Foster Campbell, a North Louisiana populist in the Huey Long tradition, is in the running. But many are pinning their hopes on former U.S. Senator John Breaux, who left office in 2005 to join a powerful Washington, D.C., lobbying firm. Breaux remains a popular, widely known figure, but there's one problem: having changed his permanent address to Maryland, he may be ineligible to run for state office under residency requirements set forth in Louisiana's constitution, a snag Republicans started hammering away at in television attack ads even before Blanco stepped aside...