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...think a lot of our supporters in the end believed that if they spent one less hour not working, [Obama] might not win... and there was some truth to that,” he said...
...hinged on who you might know.”Still, Tatar understands students’ concerns about writing. “We all labor under this delusion that it will be simple. The language is simple. The books are short. But Ted Geisel—Dr. Seuss—spent 18 months wrestling with ‘The Cat and the Hat,’” she points out. “A poem isn’t easy either, but it’s short.”“Then again, Margaret Wise Brown wrote...
...spent a lot of her time in public office trying to diminish partisan politics,” he said...
...polling that apparently failed to pick up on the public mood. And then there was the cost of sending out 20 million pieces of direct mail, with postage alone reaching $8 million, according to an official for the firm. Many would argue that it was money ill-spent. At a minimum, that big a bill for snail mail suggests that Clinton's campaign was relying heavily on tactics from the 20th century, while Obama was running circles around her by using the far more cost- (and politically) effective Internet. The Clintons, however, remain firmly behind the man who served...
...Idol. Her campaign's real asset is its database of supporters. In the first quarter alone, it raised more than $2 million renting out that list. Among those who paid the most to use it: Barack Obama's Inauguration committee and the William J. Clinton Foundation, each of which spent...