Eric Miller ’16 Inside Politics On November 7, 2012, Republicans across the United States went to bed disappointed as they watched their candidate, Mitt Romney, fall to the incumbent president and Democratic nominee, Barack Obama, in the 2012 presidential election. While pre-election polls had indicated a nail-biting race, the president’s victory in virtually every single […]
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The Bush Family Weighs In
Katie Miller ’14 The Bush family has been a prominent fixture in politics for the last several decades and could soon be comparable to the Kennedys. So, their input on the current Republican primary is bound to carry a lot of weight. Last week Jeb Bush weighed in with his endorsement of Mitt Romney. This […]
Cassandra Savidge ’12 Rick Santorum plans on making an appearance today, March 20th, at the Gettysburg Hotel. So, it seemed the perfect opportunity to review the Washington Post’s recent article, Rick Santorum’s journey to devout Catholicism, view of religion in governance and his political views in respect to their effects on women voters. In the […]
Kal Decato ‘12 The Israel-Iran dilemma: Obama’s primary objective. On Thursday, March 8, in an Investor’s Business Daily blog, Charles Krauthammer opined on President Obama’s handling of the Israel-Iran situation. The message being projected by the U.S. President is one of strong resolve for preventing Iran from going nuclear. He has stated this several times […]
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It’s All About Elections
Brett Stewart ’14 The news this week focused primarily on elections, both in the US and abroad. Naturally, one topic of interest is the “Super Tuesday” primaries, where GOP nominees battled, once again, to be their party’s flag-bearer for the Republican Convention. One could surmise that Mitt Romney won the day, but Rick Santorum, a […]
