Outside of the movies, the idealistic candidate has a very tough road. While people respect those who adhere to principles, they often do not vote for them.
David Broder’s column, The McGovern Landslide, is an interesting look back at this phenomenon, inspired by the celebration of former Senator and Presidential candidate George McGovern’s 85th birthday. [...]

First, Bill Richardson resigned from the Board of Directors of Valero Energy (VLO) in June 2002 to run for Governor of New Mexico.
Then, in June of this year, he sold all of his stock because
“it was just a distraction” in his campaign.
“Because I was getting questions, I just felt it was best to divest myself,” [...]

With all the blatant and usually ungrounded attacks on Fred Thompson recently, conservative humor sites like imao.us have been having a field day. They had a particularly hilarous article today about Fred Thompson’s work for a pro abortion group. I’ll quote a little of it, but you should really go read the post yourself.
Fred Thompson [...]

Obama got hit by Mitt Romney after this article on Obama and sex ed came out on ABC’s Political Radar.
The LA Times Top of the Ticket has a nice article about how both candidates John Edwards and Barack Obama were out speaking about poverty.

CBS News thinks that Thompson’s lack of a full campaign is hurting [...]