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...last third-party candidate who got anywhere near the presidency was Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, and he had been President before. Since then, four third-party candidates have gotten more than 5% of the vote. And each of them had something Bloomberg lacks: a popular issue that the major parties wouldn't touch. In 1924, the gop ran Calvin Coolidge, the most conservative President of the 20th century, and the most boring. But his Democratic opponent, John W. Davis, was pretty conservative too. And so Robert La Follette, the only progressive in the race, won 17% of the vote...
...Cool, advertising agencies in the 1960s forever transformed youth from a demographic group to a consuming ideal. Historian T.J. Jackson Lears of Rutgers University traces the association of youth with political renewal far into America's past. "It's quite thoroughly embedded," he says. "It really begins with Theodore Roosevelt," who became President at age 42. Freshness and vitality have almost always sold better than the worry lines of veteran leadership...
...It’s disconcerting because although we like to admire our candidates from afar and know the intimate details of their lives, what we really want is not a personal connection but a dependable president. But some of the world’s best leaders, Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt included, held deep convictions of their own. They believed so passionately in their words that emotion inevitably followed. Indeed, these taboo appearances of genuine feeling have come to serve as the only indicator that a politician is anything more than a partisan mouthpiece. Sure, Hillary has plenty of flaws...
...Though I don’t doubt Obama has more natural charisma than Hillary, could she effectively use whatever charm she might have and still appear presidential? Who was the last female political leader able to inspire the masses? Barbara Jordan never had broad nationwide appeal. Eleanor Roosevelt never ran for office in her own right. Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Mary Robinson, and Benazir Bhutto might have been described as inspirational, but mostly as a result of their strength of character and iron will in the face of war and other major crises...
...that are not usually associated with the Republican Party. Is that a direction that you think the party can grow? And also immigration.... On an issue such as climate change... That is a return to the Republican Party all through the earliest party of the 20th century. Teddy Roosevelt was a great environmentalist. [Ronald] Reagan even was an environmentalist.... So some of the things that I am advocating are not so much change, as return to the principles and values that not only made our party a successful party, but was good for the country...