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Andrew J. Crutchfield ’12, who spent the morning at the campaign office calling swing voters in New Hampshire, was one of the Harvard Republicans waiting to meet her when she came inside to talk to the volunteers...
...Every Chance I Get,” and “I’m Illy” are typical of the College Park swaggerer and self-styled king of the south. And what would a T.I. album be without some club burners like “Swing Ya Rag” or the synth-heavy “On Top of the World”? But it is with his more contemplative tracks that T.I. surpasses anything in his previous catalog. Take third track “Ready For Whatever,” in which T.I. plumbs...
...public, at least not where the neighbors can hear.Last weekend, I joined the Harvard College Democrats on their canvassing trip to this relic of Americana. For two days, we knocked the doors of the people that were once Hillary Clinton’s base. They are the new swing vote, for a reason that all but the most jaded political hands should find troubling: many of them, quite simply, are racists.Rep. John Murtha, a sixteen-term Congressman from Pittsburgh, acknowledged this reality on Wednesday with a bluntness that a less secure incumbent could never have dared. “There...
...hard or how crisply he punched, it would not last. In the end, the gravity of the debate returned to Obama. The turning point was when McCain finally brought up the issue of Obama's ties to former anti-Vietnam War terrorist William Ayers. All McCain accomplished was to swing the spotlight away from himself back to the engaging newcomer. Predictably, Obama had a mild answer ready - as straightforward and uncontroversial as it was soothing. Was it entirely candid? Who asks that of Cary Grant...
...students get to vote locally. In Virginia, for example, where the law stipulates that voters must establish "domicile" in their precincts to register but never defines that term, youth-voter advocates say it's no accident that registrars' rulings are often strictest in small towns, where students could potentially swing a local election. In 2004, after a voter drive registered 2,000 William and Mary students in Williamsburg - home to fewer than 12,000 residents - the local registrar announced that students no longer had domicile and could not vote there. "If you're a homeless person, you're allowed...