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...time to start talking about, what now?" Huckabee told a cheering crowd of hundreds that failed to fill a ballroom at the Columbia Convention Center. "I don't want us to leave here saying, well, the game has ended. No, we have just finished one of the quarters of play." One quarter, perhaps, but two very critical steps...
...Silver State's caucus wasn't supposed to turn out a joke. On the contrary, it scored what was originally intended to be a prime early slot on the political calendar, a nod to both the growing importance of Hispanics, who make up nearly a quarter of the state's population and the power of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who hails from Nevada. It agreed to hold a caucus instead of a primary because state officials believed they it would come second in the nation after Iowa and before New Hampshire, which prizes its first-in-the-nation status...
Then the race moved from the monochrome fields of Iowa and the overwhelmingly white exurb known as New Hampshire into Nevada and South Carolina. The Nevada population is one-quarter Hispanic, and typically about half of South Carolina Democratic-primary voters are African American. Within hours of reaching those states, the contest between Clinton and Obama acquired a racial text and subtext that posed dangers for both candidates. The spat subsided only after the candidates stepped in to defuse the tension and return to the sort of post-identity campaigns that both will need to run in the general election...
...liberal education!” Then I imagine the sound of millions of televisions being flung at those people’s heads.But what will our liberal educations enable us to talk about during the great Analog Darkness of 2009? The current Core curriculum that occupies approximately one quarter of every Harvard undergraduate’s course-load exists because, in the words of the 2007-8 Courses of Instruction, “every Harvard graduate should be broadly educated, as well as trained in a particular academic specialty or concentration.” This seems to bode well...
...voters Republican primary voters to check the box for John McCain at the polls. He is not merely “that Senator from Arizona”—he is a public servant that has worked for the welfare of the entire country for more than a quarter of a century. A man like that is hard to find or pass...