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“Leadership is gonna come out of the states, not Washington. Look at the governors.”
— Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R-IA), quoted by the Washington Post, nixing the idea that a Member of Congress should be the GOP nominee in 2016.
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- Budget Negotiations Already in Trouble
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- Can Obamacare Survive More Bad News?
- Justifying the Early 2016 Speculation
- Latest Obamacare Glitch: Real Possibility It Won’t Work by End of November
- Key Environmental Policy is Damaging the Environment
- Obamacare Battle Centers on Fear it Will Take Hold
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“We have a disability right now — it’s called in the Senate ’55 of them and 45 of us.’ I’m not great at math, but 55 is more than 45.”
— Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), in an interview with Peggy Noonan, on the GOP’s inability to repeal Obamacare.
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Paul Says He’ll Give Footnotes for Speeches
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), “drawn and clearly shaken” by plagiarism charges, “offered a mix of contrition and defiance,” the New York Times reports.
Said Paul: “What we are going to do from here forward, if it will make people leave me the hell alone, is we’re going to do them like college papers. We’re going to try to put out footnotes. We’re going to have them available. If people want to request the footnoted version, we’re going to have it available.”
Paul also “attributed some of the sloppiness to the hectic life of a senator in high demand.”
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Why Attractive Candidates Often Win
Psychological Science: “Some researchers have posited that it occurs because people ascribe generally positive characteristics to physically attractive candidates. We propose an alternative explanation–that leadership preferences are related to functional disease-avoidance mechanisms. Because physical attractiveness is a cue to health, people concerned with disease should especially prefer physically attractive leaders.”
“Using real-world voting data and laboratory-based experiments, we found support for this relationship. In congressional districts with elevated disease threats, physically attractive candidates are more likely to be elected (Study 1). Experimentally activating disease concerns leads people to especially value physical attractiveness in leaders (Study 2) and prefer more physically attractive political candidates (Study 3). In a final study, we demonstrated that these findings are related to leadership preferences, specifically, rather than preferences for physically attractive group members more generally (Study 4).”
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Romney’s New Utah House Has a Hidden Room
“If you look closely at the bookshelves there, you find something interesting: a secret door. The second bookshelf from the far wall is really a door that swivels out to reveal a hidden room.”
“This is but one voyeuristic tidbit the Salt Lake Tribune uncovered by examining the architectural and landscape drawings approved… in September that clearly identify the project as a home for the former Republican presidential nominee and his wife, Ann.”
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