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...issues like immigration, education, and health care, Richardson had to deal with the harsh realities of the situation as the two-term governor of New Mexico and former congressman for 14 years. He’s been such a successful governor that he garnered 40 percent of the Republican vote in his reelection. His approval ratings are consistently above 60 percent and always some of the highest in the nation...
...remains the only candidate to forcefully argue that we must change the way politics itself works to successfully change our policies. Only Obama has consistently offered a coherent vision of the way in which a broken political system—in which politicians decide what to say, how to vote, and with whom to cooperate for re-election based on partisan loyalties—leads to poor decisions. Certainly, the Bush administration was at fault for the misguided invasion of Iraq, but the effort was aided and abetted by those members of Congress who, fearing that standing up for their...
...Harvard students decide which candidate to support, we hope they choose Gov. Mitt Romney, for he will take good care of the country that we will inherit. To help students decide, we also hope that the people of New Hampshire vote for Gov. Romney...
...election season, which would otherwise be difficult to fathom considering Iowa’s few delegates. We are deeply troubled by this system. It gives undue influence, during each election cycle, to a handful of states with early primaries or caucuses, while rendering the contests of states that vote late in the schedule almost meaningless. Nevertheless, we sympathize with the argument that a spread-out election schedule gives candidates the greatest opportunity to make their cases to voters in each state. Therefore, the best way to set up a fair primary would be to rotate the order that states vote...
...came in sixth. Now, he has reduced his role to that of a cameo in New Hampshire as well. He is running behind John McCain, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee in most surveys - his exact position depending on who the pollsters think is going to come out and vote. He neither helped nor hurt himself in Saturday night's ABC/Facebook debate - though he did seem to invoke Ronald Reagan's name nearly every time he spoke...