But Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School and a former chairman of George Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, notes that private-equity partners, given the sort of accountants that they can afford, would no doubt find a way to avoid the higher tax.

ECONOMIST: Tax reform

He notes that Republicans have lost a generation of young voters during the Bush years.

NEWYORKER: On the Bus

Dr Sekhon notes that, thanks to Karl Rove, the mastermind of George Bush's election victories in 2000 and 2004, the Republicans have been far more effective at exploiting new scientific information about voting and elections.

ECONOMIST: How to detect voting fiddles

The report notes that in Texas and Tennessee, home to presidential candidates George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore, African Americans lag behind Caucasians by some of the widest margins.

CNN: Report: Income, not ethnicity, determines access

The MSNBC article, written by journalist Russ Choma, notes that 11 of the 70 major wind farms that received grants had erected their wind towers during the Bush Administration.

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