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Obama's recent successes, in fact, don't just speak to his popularity as a Democratic candidate. A close look at his victories show a fundamental shift not just in who's winning but in who is voting for the winner. Obama's victory in Louisiana could be, if one were especially cynical, written off as success with "black voters." But what of Nebraska, just to take one example? Obama won the state 68 to 32; he won Nebraska's second congressional district 77 to 23. And while it's true that this district (my home district...
...longer. James Hansen, one of the world's most respected climate scientists, believes that we have just a decade - when today's college students will be reaching their 30s - to stem the growth in carbon emissions, or the world will be changed irrevocably. Youth have a right to speak out, using organizations like Focus the Nation, and they must do so. "Young people have the moral authority," says Goodstein. "This is not about us, my generation - this is about their future." And that future...
...buildings lack the lavish uniformity of Yale or Princeton, the loose unity of the Harvard aesthetic is testament to our lack of pretension and honest relationship with its own history. In a way, the architecture of Harvard is an extension of its traditional attitude that its achievements should speak for themselves. (I don’t mean to pick on our Ivy League neighbors: Boston College, the University of Chicago, and Duke, to name a few, regularly advertise their flashy “gothic” campus in admissions materials despite having come into existence some considerable time after...
...might add, at their supposed leaders' peril as well. McCain actually got nearly as many evangelical votes as Huckabee and Romney. All through this race, even before Huckabee soared out of Iowa, it was clear that those who claim to speak for the flock weren't listening very well. That McCain and Huckabee are the last men standing is just the latest proof - since the conservative commentariat was uniquely united in its antipathy to both...
...seems to me that if you want to exercise power in a political party, you have to show that you have some juice, that you can genuinely claim to speak for thousands or millions of voters. That means that whether your candidate wins or loses in the end may not matter as much as WHEN you first back that candidate...