Political Equinox

Although referencing Romeo and Juliet is incredibly trite, it nonetheless underscores an important point - it shouldn’t matter in picking the leader of our country. In politics it helps if your name is Bush, Roosevelt, Kennedy or Rockefeller or is alliterative (Ronald Reagan, Hannibal Hamlin etc). But unless your shtick is railing against elite political families or hating repetitive letters and sounds, names usually do not have a negative affect on a politician.

Enter the 2008 presidential race. Although the McCain camp has done a good job denouncing the practice, some of his supporters have selectively chosen to insert Senator Obama’s middle …

Tags: Bush, candidate, Hussein, Kennedy, New York Times, obama, president, Rockefeller, Romeo and Juliet, web

Our Final Run-Ins
We did not expect this day to be as fruitful in terms of engaging with political candidates and surrogates – we figured the candidates would be on such a frantic schedule that exactly nailing down where they would be seemed very difficult.
We were wrong.
We ate at a restaurant called Olde Main Brewing Company in downtown Ames, not really expecting anyone to show up. In walked Ted Danson and his wife Mary Steenburgen. Normally I’d be floored by seeing people like Danson and Steenburgen, but we had run-ins with so many different people of fame that I just assumed we should leave them to their …

Tags: Barack Obama, candidate, Congress, huckabee, iraq, IRS, Kennedy, Mike Huckabee, money, obama, president, republican, ron paul, taxes, The Caucus

Patrick McAlister, co-editor

After spending a year or two reading and commenting on various blogs, I am thrilled to finally be co-editing one.

I am a junior at Wabash College, with a major in Political Science and minors in History and Theatre. As you can probably see from my major and minors, political discussion is one of my passions. Wabash is a fantastic place to discuss political views of all types, as there are some people to the left of Eugene V. Debs and to the right of Otto von Bismarck. You get all flavors of thought, and (I am told) emerge from the college with quite an interesting political palette.

Aside from studying and discussing politics, I …

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