Luiz graduated from the University of Central Florida with a B.A. in Political Science. Interests include history, travel, biking and independent film. He currently resides in South Florida.

My passion is ...

soccer, esp. DC United and the US National Team.

I know too much about ...

Lyndon Johnson.

My parents always told me ...

what we give to the poor is what we take with us when we die.

My childhood ambition ...

to fight like Steven Segal.

Why I write ...

it's more effective than yelling on the metro.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

What the Gospels Really Meant by Gary Wills

My first job ...

waiter at an Italian restaurant in Miami Beach.

My best moment ...

is yet to come.

My inspiration ...

the triune God, from whom I get everything.

Politics, News & Issues > US Elections Archives US elections 2008: Assessing the possibility of a Clinton-Obama ticket

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Clinton-Obama ticket a risky marriage of Political Convenience

In the two-hundred year history of American electoral politics, there has been just one successful vice-presidential candidate. Without Lyndon Baines Johnson, it is doubtful that John Kennedy would have defeated Richard Nixon in 1960. Though in terms of the electoral college, Kennedy could have won without the thirty-four electoral votes of Texas, he would have lost the popular vote and had great difficulty holding the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama. Johnson was an expert on the campaign trail and performed exceptional...

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