Presidential races are not clean, polite affairs; candidates rarely escape without jagged cuts or lasting scars. But the 2016 presidential race has been a spectacle from the start. That can have its good points: for example, some of the debates, while feisty, gave voters a good feel for where the candidates stand on key issues […]
Hillary Clinton
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Is it possible to make America whole again?
“The bigotry and lust for violence and force that we’re seeing in the Republican presidential campaign aren’t new.”
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Trump, Cruz, and Rubio and the angry Americans
Here we are, with people who want to be president acting in ways none of us would permit in our children.
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Feedback 1/13
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Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and a liberal voter’s dilemma
A question: In politics, when should you compromise, and when should you stick to your principles? We’re watching that issue play out in the Republican Party right now, in Congress and in the party’s presidential campaign. But Democrats – in particular, liberal Democratic voters – have to deal with it, too. At some point, liberals […]
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Is Hillary Clinton ‘qualified’ to be president?
Partisan politics aside, what do we think are the qualifications for president? And does Hillary Clinton have them?
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Waiting for Hillary – and worrying about her chances
Many voters want someone they can trust. And poll after poll says this is Hillary Clinton’s biggest handicap.
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The war on Earth
Despite the environmental history of their political party, Republican candidates are denying the need for strong climate-change efforts.
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Feedback 4/22
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Hillary takes the Hill
Hillary Clinton may be the country’s strongest Democratic politician, in some ways even stronger than the president. Clinton stepped to the side — some would say she was pushed — to allow Barack Obama to lead the party to a sweeping victory in 2008. Her ability to show earnest respect for Obama over the last […]
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Reader feedback – 2.22.06
Ken Mehlman the chairman of the Republican National Committee unleashed
