Word: republicans
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Political analysts point out the latter attribute has actually decreased in importance during this year's presidential campaign. Candidates have made a concerted effort to appeal to the anti-intellectual preferences of certain voters. John McCain, a Republican presidential candidate, frequently jokes about his fifth-from-the-bottom finish at the U.S. Naval Academy. Gore and Bradley have similarly made the effort to downplay their respective Harvard and Princeton educations in recent months...
...Republican presidential front-runner George W. Bush, he seems to have no problems convincing the masses (however unintentionally) that he's no member of the intelligentsia. The New Yorker recently printed a transcript from Bush's years at Yale which revealed him to be a rather mediocre student. He had highs of 88 in philosophy and anthropology, a low of 69 in astronomy, with a GPA somewhere in the mid-C range...
Carville, a Democratic political strategist and a senior adviser to President Clinton, and IOP Fellow Lungren, a former Republican U.S. representative and California attorney general, discussed issues ranging from cynicism in politics to defense spending, based on their parties' stances...
Carville hazarded that he thinks McCain will defeat Bush, the Republican frontrunner, in the first New Hampshire primary...
...audience question-and-answer format provoked a question on why minority voters would be attracted to the respective parties. In response, Carville pointed to income tax credits and the rise in the minimum wage, while Lungren focused on Republican initiatives against crime and drugs...