As a reason for nominating a candidate for Librarian of Congress, support for open access is as unprecedented as is Dr. Hayden's gender or ethnic background.
Whether it was Trump's plan to get Mexico to pay for a wall along the United States' southern border or his pledge to protect Social Security from cuts, Christie struggled to come up with plausible reasons for supporting a candidate whose positions he once opposed so passionately.
Studies and focus groups have shown that people like ads that are based on policy, factually accurate and that forecast how a candidate would govern, giving them a reason to vote for a candidate -- as well as a reason to vote against the opponent.
I do think that in the absence of a very compelling reason to vote for a candidate, those social issues can be deal-breakers for young voters.
Nearly half of the voting population of even a highly educated city like Bangalore considers caste to be the No. 1 reason to vote for a candidate.
It may not be the right reason to vote for a candidate, but it's not a bad one.
National Republicans leaders, like Speaker Newt Gingrich, acknowledged that Republicans had not given supporters enough reasons to vote for a candidate, as opposed to reasons to vote against the Democrats.
For 10 days, the "Hardball" host had doggedly insisted he was just reciting a bit of history when he said on the air that "the reason she's a U.S. senator, the reason she's a candidate for president, the reason she may be a front-runner is her husband messed around".
During the 2008 primary, Matthews routinely faced allegations of sexism, most notably after he claimed that "the reason she's a U.S. senator, the reason she's a candidate for president, the reason she may be a front-runner is her husband messed around".
