John McCain, the cold-hearted Republican presidential candidate, plans to "privatise and ration" health care for veterans.
Of course, it depends on what the candidate plans to do about spending.
But the best political clues this week might be found in places where neither candidate plans to be: Wisconsin, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Both candidates agree that a solution needs to be bipartisan.Campaigns are not the place to expect details on the pain a candidate plans to inflict.
But at nearly every campaign rally an audience member or two, grumbling about "anchor babies," asks what a candidate plans to do.
Mr. Gingrich's state director in New Hampshire, where the candidate planned to fly by charter jet late Tuesday night, sent a message to supporters with the defensive headline "We're Still Alive".
In its more benign forms, this style of coverage means that media outlets can report as news the fact that a candidate plans to launch one strategy or another, as The Associated Press did recently in the case of Mr. Obama.
His attacks on "neo-liberalism" are so popular that even Mr Labastida has copied them though in fact neither candidate plans to undo the reforms of the past few years.Mr Madrazo also has lots of money.
Open image in new window Fig. 1 Base case of the two systems Table 1 Parameters of candidate plans Type Generator unit (p.u).
He said a mayoral candidate could use his or her election campaign to identify local issues and talk directly to voters while voters could use the campaign time to find out what a candidate planned to do for their city.
