WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, Republican presidential candidates with dwindling bank accounts and negligible support in polls have been finding reasons to stay in the 2016 race.
Now, a few must weigh whether they can keep competing after being downgraded or excluded from Tuesday's fourth GOP debate. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee have been bumped to the undercard debate because of low poll numbers, while South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and former New York Gov. George Pataki didn't qualify for either event.
I know a priest whose ecclesiastical career in this city was ruined because he had the temerity to praise the Boston Globe Spotlight team's investigation of the clerical abuse scandal—in front of a bishop.
It's been well over a decade since the story broke and Cardinal Law was forced to resign. And "Spotlight," co-written and directed by Tom McCarthy, which opens today in a limited release, is a superb account of the Globe's exposure of a scandal that still affects Boston.
