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Voting is not merely a method of choosing our country's next leaders. Casting a ballot helps to build good citizenship. It helps to make Americans more aware of current political issues, and educates them in the principles of self-government. Harvard students should feel a special responsibility to vote. Our generation has too often been accused of being mired in angst and nihilism...
...their voters. Some delegates are theoretically free-lancers: Ohio's delegates must sign a pledge for their preferred contender, but party rules state that "they are not legally bound to vote for that candidate at the National Convention." Some states have rules that bind their delegates on the first ballot (such as Arizona), or the first and second ballot (South Carolina), or until the candidate dies or withdraws or releases his charges. Some states allow a delegate to break a pledge if, as in the case of Alabama, two-thirds of the delegation agree to follow suit. The array...
...some other candidates have turned to Pete Wilson to fill their delegate slates.Wilson has done his best to put his loyalists in those 165 slots. What that means is that delegates who are pledged to rivals could be backing Dole (or whomever Wilson prefers by then) on the first ballot at the Republican Convention in San Diego next August...
...game of winner-take-all, Alexander must pick his fights so he doesn't spread himself too thin and win nothing at all. In New York and Pennsylvania, he doesn't stand a chance because he's simply not on the ballot. And Dole's team is doing everything it can to keep him strapped down. "The Dole folks are really trying to crank up the Governors to freeze out Lamar," says a veteran G.O.P. campaign strategist. That may not be too difficult: privately, some Governors complain Alexander is a bit too slick for his own good, and they resent...
Progress has been remarkable, but after the election, reform seems destined to lose momentum. It is not certain that Yeltsin can even make it into the second round of the election that will result if, as expected, no candidate wins a majority on the first ballot. It is also unclear whether he could beat Zyuganov one on one, saddled as he is with the weight of illness, the war in Chechnya and his identification with the pain and corruption of reform. Even if he were re-elected, who would push ahead with reform now that he has thrown its leading...