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So Long, Farewell, You Might Even Add an Amen
The bleak situation among Democrats appears bleaker still given this new Gallup poll showing that “a sizable portion” of Democrats will vote for John McCain, regardless of who is the Democrat nominee. If Hillary Clinton wins the nomination, 19% of Obama supporters would vote for McCain; if Barack Obama wins, 28% of Clinton supporters would vote for McCain.
The McCain camp, in an email this morn, calls this the news item of the day. Just so: the defection is of an appreciable, perhaps mortal, size, no matter how the Democrat race falls out. The wondrous thing about it all? Perhaps I simply lack the faculties necessary to comprehend Democrat politics, but haven’t Clinton and Obama supporters been needling one another for a year now about nothing more than the images, brands, and personalities of the two candidates? All this passion, all this incipient betrayal, over nothing more than image. C’est triste.
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October 18, 2009
When Love Beckoned in 52nd Street
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October 9, 2009
D Afraid of a Little Competish
So our colleague and Dartblog writer Joe Asch informed me that the D has rejected our cunning advertising campaign. Uh-oh. The Dartmouth is widely known as a breeding ground for instant New York Times successes,… -
September 4, 2009
How Regents Should Reign
As Dartmouth alumni proceed through the legal hoops necessary to defuse a Board-packing plan—which put in unhappy desuetude an historic 1891 Agreement between alumni and the College guaranteeing a half-democratically-elected Board of Trustees—it strikes one… -
August 29, 2009
Election Reform Study Committee
If you are an alum of the College on the Hill, you may have received a number of e-mails of late beseeching your input for a new arm of the College’s Alumni Control Apparatus called… -
August 23, 2009
Fare Thee Well, Tom Crady
And now Dean Tom Crady has precipitously announced his departure from the College after only 20 months on the job. How to read this? By way of background, prior to coming to Dartmouth, Crady had… -
May 31, 2009
Kangaroo Court, Indeed
In an interview with The Dartmouth, alumni-elected trustee T.J. Rodgers ‘70 explained his reasons for declining to participate in future evaluations of trustees up for “re-election,” namely the “kangaroo court” nature of such discussion in…