John Greene
John Greene
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We'll see Bush charging up his base, but in ways that won't alienate other folks. It's hard to do both things. But there are not enough base voters in either camp to win, so they need to reach out to the middle and poach the other guy's turf.
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Initially, this helps Bush because it has him taking charge, showing leadership, marshaling the power of his office.
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A lot has changed between 2004 and 2006. President Bush is not nearly as popular. There are scandals in Washington. The war in Iraq is lingering on. And there are other policy problems. So it may very well be that Republicans will look to social issues, and phenomena like the marriage amendments, as being especially important in an environment where they don't have as many things going for them.
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What Petro is competing for are the more moderate Republicans and conservatives who are not as committed on the tax issue.
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We kind of just fell into this cycle of boozing on the weekends. Nothing really got done.
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Unbeknownst to me, he had turned around, and it hit him right here. He threw me out.
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This situation does cast a bit of a cloud over that legacy, but I think it's important not to overstate it. Certainly, he gets high marks for how he's handled the situation. He could have fought it every step of the way.
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We're talking about turning thousands of static Web pages into one or two template-based pages run by a database, ... And it's logical because databases are the best way to store information, and the Internet is the best way to distribute it.
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Experience join'd with common sense, to mortals is a providence
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There is some fear that they might perhaps, on some issues like abortion, carry out a kind of Catholic jurisprudence rather than reflecting a broader point of view.
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Netscape won't do some things that Internet Explorer will do, ... But then, IE 7 is sort of a step back, so you just really need to view a page on more than one browser before you approve it.
Politicians from those communities each think that they can win.
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My sense is that at least in this state, Kerry is playing to tie on the foreign policy questions and the so-called values issues, the shorthand for which is God and guns. He comes into Ohio and he talks about being a sportsman, he talks about his military record, he talks about his faith, but he probably can't win on those issues,
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If we had had the timely hit, we were right there. We just didn't get it.