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...even as Clark attacks President Bush for not preventing the 9/11 attacks and brags that had he been President, he would have caught Osama by now. As a centrist from Arkansas who has probably voted for as many Republicans as Democrats, Clark may be one of the few true swing voters left. Having sharpened his stump speech and softened his style, Clark is taking advantage of all the empty space up on the New Hampshire stage to deliver his message to the unsure and the undecided--18%, according to a poll taken for the Concord Monitor. If all this Dean...
Where ideology did not win, electoral politics did. Overruling many of his advisers, the President decided to impose tariffs on imported steel to please voters in key swing states like Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. When the corporate scandals rocked Wall Street, O'Neill and Greenspan devised a plan to make CEOs accountable. Bush went with a more modest plan because "the corporate crowd," as O'Neill calls it in the book, complained loudly and Bush could not buck that constituency. "The biggest difference between then and now," O'Neill tells Suskind about his two previous tours in Washington...
...Crimson doesn’t have another conference contest until its New York swing against Cornell and Columbia on Jan. 30-31. Harvard has today off, and travels to Quinnipiac for a 7 p.m. contest tomorrow...
Educational? Trump and his colleagues do offer the candidates such eye-opening nuggets as "Swing for the fences" and "Location, location, location." But the primary educational element is how fan-damn-tastic it is to be Donald Trump. And really, this is all most of us have ever wanted to learn from him. We first see him soaring over Manhattan in his private helicopter; the team that wins one challenge gets a tour of his Versailles-like penthouse (guided by his girlfriend Melania Knauss). Trump is the rich guy so many nonwealthy Americans love because he lives like a lottery...
...Conservatives Think. Lakoff argues that liberals, with their "nurturing parent" view of the world, have lost ground in the values debate to "strict father" conservatives. In the middle, Lakoff writes, are "bi-conceptuals," who have internalized both parents. The question for Dean in reaching that small slice of swing voters is, Can he win over their inner mom without seeming like a too permissive...