Republican presidential primary candidate Jon Huntsman said it's time his
party adopt a more progressive stance on a number of issues at the
University of Chicago Thursday evening.
At the event, organized by the
university’s Institute of Politics, the former Utah governor and U.S.
ambassador to China under the Obama administration took questions from
journalist and Fox News contributor Juan Williams as well as the
audience. In his answers, Huntsman described himself as a solid
Republican, but was strongly critical of the direction his party has taken, adding that its doubtful that the GOP will find electoral success in future elections if they do not change.
“The minute we start to divorce fact and
science from our public policy debate, we are adrift,” Huntsman said.
“If Republicans are going to succeed long-term, we have to be the party
of reality.”
Obama’s negative defining of Romney early in the 2012 presidential campaign was a
key factor in the 2012 election, three top Obama and Romney TV ad
staffers said at a panel discussion held Tuesday night at the University of
Chicago’s Institute of Politics.
Panel members from both sides of the aisle agreed that using a
disciplined tone toward a highly skeptical public was a key strategy of
their paid television advertising. For Obama’s campaign a tone of
authenticity was used for positive advertisements, while Romney’s
campaign said it used language that suggested Obama’s presidency had
been a disappointment, but not quite a failure, economically.
“We
could tell with voters, they were disappointed with Obama, but they still
liked him,” said Ashley O’Connor, director of advertising for Romney for
President.
The top strategists of the Obama and Romney campaigns shared a stage last week at the University of Chicago to discuss the 2012 presidential campaign. The talk was sponsored by the university’s new Institute of Politics, which is run by David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s former chief strategist. The discussion kicked off an intensive five-week examination of the 2012 campaign at the Institute of Politics.
Green jobs and the clean energy sector have gotten a bad rap due to Republican rhetoric in Washington, according to the Center for American Progress. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has repeatedlybashed green jobs, even calling them "illusory" in one op-ed. He is also in favor of ending the renewable energy production credit, a move that could put at least 37,000 jobs in jeopardy, including those in Illinois. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama has said he'd like to create 5 million jobs in
the green sector and allocated $80 million to the industry in the
stimulus package.
The Center for American Progress went to the state where Romney was formerly governor to see just how real the more than 65,000 clean energy jobs are that have been created in Massachusetts. Read more »
Republican presidential primary candidate Jon Huntsman said it's time his
party adopt a more progressive stance on a number of issues at the
University of Chicago Thursday evening.
Obama’s negative defining of Romney early in the 2012 presidential campaign was a
key factor in the 2012 election, three top Obama and Romney TV ad
staffers said at a panel discussion held Tuesday night at the University of
Chicago’s Institute of Politics.
Green jobs and the clean energy sector have gotten a bad rap due to Republican rhetoric in Washington, according to the Center for American Progress. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has 