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...town called Clinton, Iowa, with former Vice President Walter Mondale, a ghost of Democratic disasters past. It was the photo op for an endorsement that seemed a potential kiss of death. Mondale is a smart and decent man, but he ran the worst sort of cautious front-runner campaign for the nomination in 1984, was nearly upended by the younger, more dynamic Gary Hart in the primaries and was utterly trounced by Ronald Reagan in the general election, in part because, in an untypically incautious moment in his acceptance speech for the nomination, he said he would raise taxes...
...Clinton has been accused of running a cautious front-runner campaign. She is challenged by a pair of dynamic younger candidates in Barack Obama and John Edwards. She has endorsed higher taxes for the wealthy. And more than a few Democrats worry that she cannot win a general election, even against a disgraced and exhausted Republican Party. In other ways, however, Clinton is the furthest thing from Mondale imaginable. A vote for Clinton is, at bottom, a radical proposition. It is a vote for the first woman to run for President, the most dramatic expansion of American possibility since...
...created my flight-time diversion by downloading a list of all the Web searches from our U.S. sample over the last four weeks that contained a presidential candidate's name. Take Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton: While there are multiple searches on Hillary's stance on the issues - health care, specifically - along with various scandal-related searches, it appears as though several Internet users are fascinated with "Hillary Clinton's casserole," "Hillary Clinton recipes," and "Hillary's hairstyle." Maybe Clinton will do well in the Leave it to Beaver belt after...
Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani, the Republican front-runner according to the latest polls, was the subject of the fewest searches. This probably has no bearing on his popularity; it's most likely due to the fact that people can't spell "Giuliani." The most common Giuliani searches focus on his stance on taxes and the war. Beyond that, however, there's an odd obsession with finding images of "Rudy Giuliani in Drag," perhaps fueled by some circulating photos from a 2000 political roast. It's just weird...
...league after finishing third in the Ivies last season. No team other than Penn and Princeton has won the league since 1988, when the Big Red grabbed the crown. Cornell grabbed 10 of 16 first-place votes and finished with 119 points overall. Yale, last year’s runner-up, was second and earned three first-place votes. Three-time defending champion Penn, Columbia, and Brown came in third through fifth, and each received one first-place vote. Harvard, after posting a 5-9 league record last season, finished with just 43 points, three ahead of former perennial power...