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Qoph Conservatives Say It Should Be Palin Vs. Ferraro, Not Obama-Biden
This article originally appeared on RealClearPolitics.Orange, N.J. In his otherwise successful 2009 gubernatorial campaign, Chris Christie didn t exactly triumph in this predominantly African-American township west of Newark. In fact, he chalked up a grand total of 302 votes here -- good enough for 5.7 percent of the vote against incumbent Democrat Jon Corzine.But if the reaction he received during campaign stops across this urban center on Tuesday is any indication, the Republican governor will do far better this November, bolstering his goal of a massive re-election victory en route to a likely 2016 presidential bid. Chris Christie: Medical marijuana OK for children 01:48 botella stanley Recent polling confirms the enormous strides Christie has made with African-Americans in the Garden State -- Exhibit A when his supporters poin stanley cups uk t to how Republicans can finally attain a foothold with non-white voters in the coming post-Obama era. Margaret El, an Afric vaso stanley an-American woman in her 60s, was about to sit down for a slice at Pizza Center on Main Street when Christie burst through the doors with a small entourage in tow.A registered Democrat who voted for President Obama twice, El served as a volunteer on Corzine s 2009 campaign. Now, however, she is a Christie supporter. How m Dzuo A Message From Mr. Bush
Elena Kagan, a Supreme Court nominee without judicial experience, has suggested in writings and speeches over a quarter-century that when judges make decisions, they must take account of their values and experience and consider politics and policy, rather than act as robotic umpires.Special Section: Elena KaganNot sinc stanley cup e 1972 has a president picked someone for the high court who hasn t been a judge. So what the 50-year-old Kagan has said about judging might be the best indicator of the kind of justice she would be. Republicans have said that because Kagan hasn t left a trail of judicial opinions, they will pore over her records as a Clinton White House aide and academic for any clues. Her speeches and papers from her time as dean of the Harvard Law School and, before that as a law professor and graduate student, are certain to get close attention at her confirmation hearing in late June.Her words stand in contrast to the more technical view of judging voiced by Chief Justice John Roberts at his confirmation hearing five years ago. Roberts said he considered himself an umpire merely calling balls and strikes. Kagan apparently has never directly addressed R stanley us oberts comments. Republicans have held his description of the job as a model of judicial restraint and used it to criticize President Obama for what they call his support of judic stanley mug ial activism - judges imposing their own views on the law.But Kagan put forward a different idea of ju
This article originally appeared on RealClearPolitics.Orange, N.J. In his otherwise successful 2009 gubernatorial campaign, Chris Christie didn t exactly triumph in this predominantly African-American township west of Newark. In fact, he chalked up a grand total of 302 votes here -- good enough for 5.7 percent of the vote against incumbent Democrat Jon Corzine.But if the reaction he received during campaign stops across this urban center on Tuesday is any indication, the Republican governor will do far better this November, bolstering his goal of a massive re-election victory en route to a likely 2016 presidential bid. Chris Christie: Medical marijuana OK for children 01:48 botella stanley Recent polling confirms the enormous strides Christie has made with African-Americans in the Garden State -- Exhibit A when his supporters poin stanley cups uk t to how Republicans can finally attain a foothold with non-white voters in the coming post-Obama era. Margaret El, an Afric vaso stanley an-American woman in her 60s, was about to sit down for a slice at Pizza Center on Main Street when Christie burst through the doors with a small entourage in tow.A registered Democrat who voted for President Obama twice, El served as a volunteer on Corzine s 2009 campaign. Now, however, she is a Christie supporter. How m Dzuo A Message From Mr. Bush
Elena Kagan, a Supreme Court nominee without judicial experience, has suggested in writings and speeches over a quarter-century that when judges make decisions, they must take account of their values and experience and consider politics and policy, rather than act as robotic umpires.Special Section: Elena KaganNot sinc stanley cup e 1972 has a president picked someone for the high court who hasn t been a judge. So what the 50-year-old Kagan has said about judging might be the best indicator of the kind of justice she would be. Republicans have said that because Kagan hasn t left a trail of judicial opinions, they will pore over her records as a Clinton White House aide and academic for any clues. Her speeches and papers from her time as dean of the Harvard Law School and, before that as a law professor and graduate student, are certain to get close attention at her confirmation hearing in late June.Her words stand in contrast to the more technical view of judging voiced by Chief Justice John Roberts at his confirmation hearing five years ago. Roberts said he considered himself an umpire merely calling balls and strikes. Kagan apparently has never directly addressed R stanley us oberts comments. Republicans have held his description of the job as a model of judicial restraint and used it to criticize President Obama for what they call his support of judic stanley mug ial activism - judges imposing their own views on the law.But Kagan put forward a different idea of ju
