Most national candidates, and too many political commentators, miss the mini-primaries that lead up to the real events. In coalition parties, which theDemocrats have been since F.D.R. and the Republicans have been since Nixon, campaigns are formed by creating personal coalitions around the various candidates. And for grassroots campaigns, of the sort I constructed for myself in 1983-84, it is even more basic than that. It is about finding key people in key primary states who combine a high reputation, organizational skill and a network of political contacts to form a campaign nucleus around which the rest of the state can be organized. I was once asked how many people I needed to win New Hampshire and I said, “Six.”
The Rest of Illinois Tired of being governed from Chicago
'Why would anyone want to live in Illinois?" So muses Curt Wooters, who works for the state and helps his dad run the family's sporting-goods store in Findlay, 200 miles south of Chicago. Imagine California without the sunshine, New York without the cultural elan, New Jersey without Chris Christie. That's Illinois.
Evel Knievel would be proud
A newfound comet defied long odds today (Dec. 15), surviving a suicidal dive through the sun's hellishly hot atmosphere, according to NASA scientists.The should compare the grades of students who write when their drunk.
Writer, philosopher, gadfly, and Slate contributor Chrisopher Hitchens died on Thursday of complications from esophageal cancer. While drinking and smoking may have contributed to his untimely passing, Hitchens didn’t regret either habit: “Writing is what’s important to me, and anything that helps me do that—or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument and conversation—is worth it to me.” After Steve Jobs died, we explained how LSD may enhance creativity among innately creative people. Does alcohol improve your writing?
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