I certainly agree with Catherine that most of the Democratic candidates are making similar promises.  I keep hearing this argument though that Hillary will better be able to “follow through” on those promises – While I’m trying to be open-minded on the point, it seems a tough sell.  
For example, what is it going to take [...]

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I, for one, am grateful that Hillary took Nevada.  I appreciate how moving Barack Obama’s speeches are but I am convinced that she will be better able to follow through on the similar promises that our candidates are making.
As for the other team, I am relieved that Huckabee lost and am holding my breath as the [...]

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Before the primaries began I heard a number of people say that Iowa and New Hampshire would no longer have a major impact on who received the Democratic and Republican nomination.  Now that they are past, what’s the verdict?
I think that they still mattered - a lot.  Huckabee and McCain, whose campaigns were were virtually [...]

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I think that everyone should read the article by Gloria Steinem in the International Herald Tribune titled “American women are never front-runners.”  Please cut and paste the below link:
http://mobile.iht.com/articles/edsteinem.1.9152446.xhtml 
Most important is the ending where Ms Steinem talks about what worries her.  I, too, am concerned that Obama is seen as unifying his race while Hillary is seen [...]

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John McCain, for whom I save a warm spot in my heart because of his work on climate change, gave an surprisingly weak victory speech tonight.  There were three major problems with the speech.
First, the audience hardly saw his eyes.  How can someone who has been a politician for so long give one of the [...]

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The other night Barack Obama won in Iowa.  But to my mind that wasn’t the real story of the night.  What moved me was his victory speech.
A familiar and well deserved lament about American politics is that the substance has disappeared, and has been replaced by opinion polls and focus groups.  Speeches sound as though [...]

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Big night in politics and there are a lot of different ways to read what happened.  What I took away from the result comes from how reality seems to be converging with Hollywood.  
My memory is a bit fuzzy but let me see if I can’t paint the picture… On the Democractic side, a minority [...]

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Huckabee just turned the political world upside down.  And there’s no way that the Republican party is happy about it. The candidate who represents vehement anti-gay sentiment, who wanted to quarantine AIDs patients, and who will actually take action to criminalize abortion just won the Iowa Caucuses.
The Republicans have held their coalition together by winking [...]

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Governor Huckabee’s comment linking Pakistan with immigration created a minor uproar in part because it shined a spotlight on his lack of foreign policy experience. But while his deficient foreign policy experience matters to me and it matters to the media and to many pundits, does it matter to most voters?
Some may recall George Bush’s [...]

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Since this is the inaugural Crimson&Blue blog post, I’m using it to talk about the genesis and future of the blog. Harvard Business School’s Democratic Club is composed of diverse, talented, politically engaged individuals. Contrary to popular opinion, there are quite a few of us. And the blog was created to give us [...]

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