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Conservatives who breathed a sigh of relief with Vice President Joe Biden’s removing himself from the 2016 race should stop, look, and listen. There are other potential presidential candidates on the horizon. Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is one. Although he has said no to a run, and although the time is getting late, Deval Patrick is a longtime ally of President Obama. His only criticism of the President is that he does not tout his great successes enough. Recently, Gov. Patrick put his name on the cover of Winning Marriage. It’s a book about the thus far successful...

Thursday, February 1st, 2007 Hillary Clinton - universally known, widely admired and hellbent on becoming our next President - will have a hard time turning her fame into votes, according to nine ordinary New Yorkers I watched talk for a couple of hours about their hopes, fears and desires for abetter nation. That creates an opening for Barack Obama, who the same minipanel of voters like, and want to know more about. I was hiding out behind a two-way mirror, watching a focus group run by superpollster Craig Charney, who has sampled voter opinion for everyone from Bill Clinton to...

Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., left, greets Aubrey Tyler and her father, Rich Tyler, Thursday during a "house party" at his new apartment he's renting in Manchester. FULL STORY (AP) Five Democratic Presidential candidates voted for the No Child Left Behind Act as members of Congress. Now they complain they were victims of a legislative bait and switch, tricked into supporting a sweeping reform bill they say is underfunded by the Bush administration. Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean urges governors to reject all money the federal government sends under the law or risk being trapped into meeting standards the government doesn’t...

Because George Bush's 2004 campaign has raised more money than all nine Democrat presidential candidates combined, the so-called D-9 demanded today that Mr. Bush redistribute his funds among his less fortunate rivals. "What made this country great is taking money from the wealthy, and giving it to the poor," according to a joint statement by the D-9. "If Bush is really a compassionate conservative, he will divide his re-election funds among us. As one of the founders of our party once wrote: 'From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.'" Under the Democrat redistribution plan, Al...

Moderator is "Gerlad McEntee of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees." Gov Dean is the first candidate to speak, and he is now making his opening statement.

Interesting debate. So far Kerry has been accused by one Dem of hating gays, and Dean was attacked for wanting to make America a 2nd rate military power. ...

FL's Education Governor: Jeb Bush. Sunday, June 16, 2002 Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel Editorial FCAT Scores Prove Progress Critics of Gov. Jeb Bush's "A-Plus" education reform program are at it again. They don't like standards; they say standards make teachers' jobs too hard. They don't like testing; they say it doesn't prove anything. But now that 68 schools around the state have received failing grades on this year's Florida Comprehensive Assessment Tests, they're changing their tune. Now they say the failing grades do prove something after all: that the A-Plus plan isn't working. What hypocrisy. The criticism is coming from predictable...