But at some point over the past year, acknowledging the truth went from being pretty necessary for US presidential candidates to something that was fully optional — facts were fine to have in 2015, but actively ignoring them didn't appear to undermine anyone's support.
Despite his recent gains, the poll still showed Lee crossing the 51percentt finish line well before Herrera, so it behooved the current second-place candidate to do something to shake things up a bit.
Ms Norwood won far more votes than any black candidate in the first round of the election.The closest either candidate came to something edgier was an ad from Ms Norwood in the last days of the campaign, which fretted, "Some are trying to divide our city across racial lines".
(Fred Thompson is a special case: his birth name is Freddie, so he is the only candidate to have switched to something more formal. I suppose he deserves points for this).
The sheer heinousness of the cartels is going to make it politically difficult for any of the candidates to orchestrate something that looks on its face like a détente.
Mr. Icahn has not yet indicated what his ideas for the company are, nor which four of Genzyme's current directors he would want his own candidates to replace, something he will have to specify eventually.
The absence of Romney and Huntsman may have something to do with the debate's sponsor: The Family Leader, an Iowan evangelical group that, earlier this year, tried to get candidates to sign something called "The Marriage Vow".
They still work for the insurance industry, but now, in a new television commercial, they prod Mr. Clinton, Congress and political candidates to do something about the problem of 44 million Americans without health coverage.
In the line of fire Turbine time The Big Apple gets poorer Learning their lesson Requiem for a queen Cobbling together a dream ticket ReprintsSome political strategists are urging the candidates to do something bold break the rules and choose a candidate from the other party.
Before the in-person interview, we ask candidates to bring something in that will help them stand out.
George Will, with whom Romney could certainly stand to score a point or two, said on the last edition of "This Week With Christiane Amanpour," "Surely it is time for these candidates to do something presidential, stand up and say, 'We're not going to be hijacked and participate in this.'".
