DES MOINES, Iowa - Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., who shook up Republican politics in 2010 by challenging the establishment, said Saturday there's room for more candidates in the 2012 Republican presidential race and predicted the field could see new and surprising entrants in the coming months, though he said again he will not run. Noting that the race has been slow to develop, DeMint said, "I think there are a number of strong candidates looking at it and I think there probably will be more who are waiting to see what happens. And if no one is an immediate frontrunner, I think you might see a whole new cast of Republican candidates within the next couple months.
The University of Missouri Board of Curators is considering a diverse group of candidates in its search for the next system president. Minorities and women are included in that candidate pool, said Betsy Rodriguez, vice president for human resources.
CASTINE - The committee searching for a new president for Maine Maritime Academy has narrowed the field to six candidates. The nine-member committee reviewed close to 50 applications, according to trustee Manny Morgan, who chairs the committee searching for a replacement for MMA President Leonard Tyler. Tyler, who became president in 1995, announced in February that he would retire next summer, at the end of this academic year.
Three finalists, one of whom is expected to become the third president of the University of Southern Indiana, will interview on the Vanderburgh County campus over the next two weeks. Much of the interview process will be conducted in private with university administrators and in closed-door sessions of the USI Board of Trustees, but students, faculty and staff will have a chance to listen to each candidate and ask questions during open sessions.
In this election year, when three of the four nominees for president and vice president are sitting U.S. Senators-Barack Obama, D-Ill., John McCain, R-Ariz., and Joe Biden, D-Del.,-each has ancord of roll call votes cast in Congress. Each year, through its Nonpartisan Congressional Scorecard, the Children's Defense Fund Action Council selects congressional roll call votes to illustrate how the Members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives voted on key Issues affecting children and families. One of the measures the Scorecard included was a bill reauthorizing the State Children's Health Insurance Program for five years and increasing funding for SCHIP and Medicuid by nearly 535 billion over that period. The cost of the expansion would have been funded by a 6 I cent u puck federa...
JACKSON - The preferred candidates to lead two of Mississippi's historically black universities have executive experience at HBUs in other states and are prepared to lead schools with distinct academic missions, state College Board members said. The board announced Monday that it had chosen Carolyn W. Meyers, a past president of Norfolk State University in Virginia, as the preferred candidate to become president of Jackson State University. If formally approved, Meyers would be the first woman in the top job at JSU, an urban campus in the capital city.
The University of Missouri System has attracted a broad pool of potential contenders for the president's post, according to the chairman of the Board of Curators. Curators spent about four hours behind closed doors Thursday reviewing some 140 individuals who either expressed interest in becoming the next system leader or who were nominated. Chairman Warren Erdman said he's pleased with the caliber of those potential candidates. While he wouldn't go into specifics, saying most of the candidates have asked for confidentiality, Erdman said they represent a diverse population.
NEW YORK, March 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The list of candidates continues to fluctuate and one year from now the Republican nominee will most likely be set. But, at this point, there is clearly no front-runner in the race for that nomination. Among all adults, assuming these candidates were in the Republican primary election, 10% would each vote for Mitt Romney and Donald Trump, while just under that would vote for Mike Huckabee (8%), Rudy Giuliani (8%) and Sarah Palin (7%). Five percent or less would vote for Newt Gingrich (5%), Tim Pawlenty (2%), Michele Bachmann (2%), Mitch Daniels (2%), Rick Santorum (1%) and Haley Barbour (less than 1%). Almost half of all Americans (45%) are not at all sure who they would vote for in the Republican primary. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh...
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