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...classmate at HLS 20 years ago, spoke to Obama’s assets as a candidate. “We finally have the opportunity to elect a president who is very smart, who wants to know the truth,” he said. Mack contrasted Obama with the Republicans, who he said are “running an anti-intellectual campaign masquerading as a populist campaign.” Harvard College Republicans President Colin J. Motley ’10 said that although the Republicans are not planning a similar fundraising event for McCain, all of their meetings involve hosting...
Representatives from the Harvard College Democrats and Harvard Republican Club held a debate last night at the Institute of Politics intended to provide clarity which they say is lacking on the national stage. Eva Z. Lam ’10 and Jonathan P. Hawley ’10—legislative director and events director of the Democrats—and Colin J. Motley ’10 and Jeffrey Kwong ’08-’09—president and president emertius the Republicans—sparred on a range of issues during the hour...
...temporary restraining order against a district policy that bars teachers from wearing campaign buttons in the city's public schools. The prohibition, union officials argue, is a violation of teachers' First Amendment rights to free speech and political expression. "It doesn't matter whether you support Obama or Republican Senator John McCain," UFT president Randi Weingarten said at a press conference. "As voters, we all should have the right to express our views...
...weeks, Charles Cherry II has tried to get Florida's Republican Party to buy ads promoting Senator John McCain on the seven African American-targeted radio stations and in the two newspapers that make up part of the Cherry family's sprawling Tampa business empire, the largest black-owned media entity in the Sunshine State. The ads would have enabled McCain to make his case to potentially millions of black Floridians, about 13% of whom voted for President Bush in 2004. Instead, Cherry, 52, recalls a Republican official saying, "We're ceding the black vote in Florida to Obama." Last...
...just Obama's historic candidacy that's eroding the Republicans' small black constituency. Many black pastors who supported Bush cannot credibly suggest that their congregations support the Republican ticket, not after the Bush Administration's mishandling of Hurricane Katrina and the economic crisis that particularly threatens an already fragile black middle class. For many blacks, there is little evidence that McCain, who still has the stigma of initially opposing a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in his home state of Arizona two decades ago, has a desire to cultivate the kind of relationships with black Republicans that Ronald Reagan...