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...While other candidates are currently scrambling to appeal to their base, Sen. McCain can rely on his consistent voting record to verify his unwavering dedication to traditional conservative values. This has enabled him to—more than anyone else—dedicate himself to achieving real solutions for real problems, despite any political risk. He reached across the aisle to work with Democratic Senators Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) and Edward M. Kennedy ’54 -’56 (D-Mass.), respectively, to increase transparency in campaign finance and to tackle the problem of illegal immigration. Whether...
...college students and highly educated liberals. More women voted for Obama than for Clinton; more union members and their families voted for Obama than for Edwards. Clearly, then, his victory in Iowa was not only a consequence of his campaign’s ability to mobilize an established base of voters...
...core competencies of brand Romney. "I don't believe Mike Huckabee has positions that are going to appeal to voters in New Hampshire, Michigan and South Carolina." And as for the negative ads - against both Huckabee and John McCain - that seemed to bait an already energized evangelical base, those aren't going away either. "It is important to make a case about differences," said Madden, using the campaign patois for what civilians consider attacks...
Bhutto was above all a feudal landowner (her family had a lot of property in Sindh province) with the sense of entitlement this produced. Democracy has never thrived in Pakistan in part because landowning remains the base from which politicians emerge. Pakistani democracy is really a form of elective feudalism. Bhutto nominated her feudal friends and allies for seats, and these landowners made sure their peasants voted them...
...summer. But the PPP is a family firm. It was created by Bhutto's father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who ran the country from 1971 to '77 and was executed by military ruler Zia in 1979. The decision to anoint Bilawal, says Haqqani, "will sit very well with the PPP base because he is the son of a martyr and the grandson of a martyr...