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...with Americans of all stripes dismayed by the legislative paralysis that's gripping the capital, some are beginning to question whether Obama's presence on the campaign trail will help or hinder Democratic candidates. Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut attorney general who is running for the state's U.S. Senate seat, offered a tepid appraisal when asked recently if he expected Obama to campaign for him. "I don't know whether he would and I don't know whether we would ask. At this point, it is an open question," Blumenthal told students at Yale University in New Haven. Last month...
Harvard won matches at the top two spots, as co-captain Colin West and junior Richard Hill each took home 3-1 victories...
West leads the Crimson with eight victories at the number one position and was the only Harvard player to record a victory against the Bulldogs last weekend, although freshman Zeke Shrel lost in a tight five-gamer and juniors Richard Hill and Eliot Buchanan each won a game...
...Moderates The vicious circle has its roots in the great sorting out of American politics that has occurred over the past 40 years. In the middle of the 20th century, America's two major parties were Whitmanesque: they contradicted themselves; they contained multitudes. As late as 1969, the historian Richard Hofstadter declared that the Democratic and Republican parties were each "a compound, a hodgepodge, of various and conflicting interests." (See the top 10 forgettable Presidents...
...trying to? Tom Jenney is the Arizona state director of a Washington-based group called Americans for Prosperity (AFP), a low-tax, libertarian advocacy group funded primarily by the wealthy Koch family of Wichita, Kans., and its foundations. With its sister organization FreedomWorks - run by former House majority leader Richard Armey - the AFP nurtured the Tea Party movement in its early days, offering training and logistical support. When Santelli sounded his trumpet, Jenney organized the first Tea Party protests in his state. But the larger the movement has become, the less sway professional organizers have, Jenney told TIME...