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Nobel laureate Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University. He was chief economist of the World Bank and chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers
...When Hillary Clinton edged Obama in this year's New Hampshire primary - despite data that showed Obama leading - some suspected the Bradley effect had crept back into play. "Since then," Democratic strategist Donna Brazile wrote recently, "pollsters and pundits alike have warned that Obama needs a six-to-nine point lead to overcome the so-called Bradley effect." In recent weeks, the New York Times and Washington Post have both run features examining the phenomenon...
Smith: Except, in a public-policy sense, you could argue the success of the Clinton presidency stemmed from his ability to adapt rather brilliantly to the hostile climate created by a Republican Congress...
...mentors and, at the time, was plotting a bid for Congress. It may also have been one of several coffees organized at the time to allow Obama to be introduced as Palmer's heir apparent. Or both. (Palmer and Obama had a falling-out soon after; she supported Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primaries.) It's clear that during the coffee, Obama, then a young University of Chicago law professor, met an influential group of Chicagoans who would be crucial for his eventual bid for Palmer's Illinois senate seat. (Obama would formally launch that bid on Sept...
...ideas with on a regular basis," Obama said. "The notion that somehow, as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn't make much sense." Seconds later, Senator Hillary Clinton presciently warned, "This is an issue that certainly the Republicans will be raising." Indeed, McCain raised it again at the last debate, to which Obama essentially repeated his April response...