Politics
G. Calvin Mackenzie holds an endowed chair as The Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of Government at Colby College. He is among the county’s leading experts on the presidential transition process, literally writing the book on it, Leadership in Jeopardy: The Fraying of the Presidential Appointments System, Guidebook for the Senior Executive Service, and both editions […]
Before the GOP figures out where they need to go, they need to take a long look at where they stand today. The electorate is changing and the party needs to acknowledge that. They have become a regional, rural party dominated by older white voters. Some think the party needs to go right, become more […]
The new round of anonymous trashing of Sarah Palin is illuminating. These leakers must really want to hurt Palin. They are so incompetent that have hurt themselves more. They have proved to be untrustworty and disloyal. They are clearly poor political operatives to have begun all this self-serving leaking with two weeks to go in […]
Congratulations to Barack Obama and his supporters. As a fan of politics, he really pulled off an incredible upset. This was Hillary Clinton’s year and everyone knew assumed it. We know what happens when we do that. As an American, it is of course, an historic moment. It says so much about how far this […]
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Rep. Jim Moran, Democrat from VA, on what’s coming down the pike, We have been guided by a Republican administration who believes in the simplistic notion that people who have wealth are entitled to keep it and they have an antipathy towards redistributing wealth and they may be able to sustain it for a while […]
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