Conventional political wisdom may suggest that picking a religious Jew would have cost Gore among undecided voters in the Bible Belt, but that's not necessarily the case.
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So, sympathetic as I am to those who prefer a fight over compromise, as much as the political wisdom may dictate fighting over solving problems, it would be the wrong thing to do.
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In his closing remarks, the Director-General expressed his hope that the tradition of these annual Summit meetings will continue, further increasing regional cooperation "through the political wisdom of its leaders and their belief in the pursuit of dialogue and exchange for the common good".
The electorate cannot speak in words, so it tries to communicate its wisdom to the political elites by the means that it has: votes, responses to polling questions, and political contributions.
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Changing times do tend to challenge our traditional political assumptions and question our conventional wisdom about left and right.
Another concern, at least to an outside observer, is the wisdom of liberals forging a political alliance focused on process over substance.
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The conventional wisdom about the economic and political rise of women is that an information intensive economy prizes the cultural and neurological traits of women more than men.
In short, he is not afraid to pursue major structural changes, even in the face of the conventional wisdom and an entrenched status quo political establishment.
If India's political and business leaders could show a little more of the bravery, and especially the wisdom, that Nehru called for in 1947, there would be surer and less nerve-wracking grounds for optimism.
Conventional wisdom has it that it is the turn of a big country, and also of the political left.
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