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...night before the South Carolina primary, the only optimist aboard John McCain's Straight Talk Express was state chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham. "I feel as good about this election," said Graham, "as I've ever felt about any election before." McCain - who was famously burned in South Carolina in 2000 after his New Hampshire victory, when a whisper campaign and George Bush's dominance of the state's Republican party structure combined to deliver a crushing blow - was openly nervous. He even asked his staff to switch his exit song at rallies from confident, macho stuff like the Rocky theme...
...uncharacteristically blunt terms, Sen. John F. Kerry delivered an impassioned plea for action on climate change at the Law School Wednesday, rebuking the nation’s “screwed up” priorities and criticizing both the U.S. government and Harvard for not taking stronger action to reduce carbon emissions. “The level of irresponsibility with respect to environmental issues is beyond comprehension,” Kerry said, noting that the U.S. has ignored international efforts to cap emissions and is trailing most of the developed world in using renewable fuels for electricity generation...
McCain is also a major advocate of campaign-finance reform, having crossed party lines to join Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin to limit soft money and curb the corruption associated with funding a campaign. He has also publicly condemned pork barrel spending in Congress, which he believes interferes with national interests...
...Tuesday, Feb. 5, Democrats in 22 states, including Massachusetts, will go to the polls to select the Democratic Party’s nominee for President of the United States. We hope they select Sen. Barack H. Obama. He has won our unmitigated support because he has the experience, policy proposals, and vision required not only to be president, but to fundamentally alter the way our broken political system functions.Obama has committed his life to furthering the public good. From starting as a community organizer, to working as a constitutional lawyer and law professor, to serving as a Ill. State Senator...
...conservative," said Pat Toomey, who runs the club. His organization has been critical of McCain's record in the past as well, but at the press conference, Toomey declined to comment on McCain. Only afterwards, in a private interview, did he admit, "There are major problems with Sen. McCain's record. We have documented them...