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...least four factors are driving turnout: wide-open races for both party's nominations, the historic candidacies of both a black man and a woman, a general concern about the direction of the country and rising economic anxiety. Michael McDonald, a political scientist at George Mason University who studies voter participation, pointed in particular to Barack Obama, whose age and cross-party appeal has helped attract unusual numbers of independents and young people to Democratic contests. As of now, he says, independents are breaking for Democrats by a ratio of two to one. "One of the reasons why independents...
Experience vs. change. That's the choice that has come to define the 2008 presidential campaign. But at TIME, we pride ourselves on never having to choose between the two. To cover what is the most wide-open election in our lifetime, we have assembled the premier political team in journalism, a group that combines decades of campaign experience with the agility required to keep readers informed across a range of platforms. From the guerrilla Web videos on our Swampland blog to Mark Halperin's The Page at TIME.com to our ongoing coverage in the print magazine to round...
...season at 11:48 after senior forward Alex Meintel won a faceoff in the Princeton zone and directed the puck to freshman forward Michael Del Mauro. “[Del Mauro] found me in the slot and made a beautiful pass to me, and I basically had a wide-open net,” Fraser said. As the second period progressed, momentum gradually swung toward the Tigers, which outshot the Crimson, 18-9, for the period after Harvard enjoyed a 13-4 advantage in the first. Most of this offensive disparity stemmed from Princeton’s four-minute...
Kolic will join Harvard students from both the Democratic and Republican camps as they head to New Hampshire today to try to influence the wide-open races...
...first half I got a lot of open looks,” McGeary said. “I thought our big guys did a good job of passing the ball, especially in the first half. That allowed us guards to get a couple backdoor [layups], a couple wide-open jumpers. It’s not just one guy launching threes. It’s got to be a total team effort...