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...were told it was the year of the angry male; 2004 may or may not be the year of the angry female at the ballot box, but it sure is on the idiot box. And you have to wonder if the same advisers who directed Bush to smile and Kerry to target working moms might not want to throw some ads toward Wisteria Lane. In this discontented autumn, the poll margins are razor-thin. And not only the housewives are desperate...
...last time Chris Shannon voted for a President, it was for a Republican, Ronald Reagan, and the year was 1980. This time, the 42-year-old former U.S. special-forces soldier, who has lived in Japan for the past seven years, will be casting his ballot for Democrat John Kerry. Shannon is eager to vote because he thinks President George W. Bush has mishandled the Iraq war. But Shannon is doing much more than exercising his own civil rights: he's also helped register some 200 other Tokyo-based Americans and is leading a group of them to Florida...
...public administration and used to work for the U.S. Federal Government as a trade negotiator. But during the U.S. presidential election four years ago, as overseas votes trickled in and officials pored over hanging chads in Florida, Shackelton realized she had shirked the most fundamental civic duty: casting a ballot. "I felt embarrassed and irresponsible," she confesses. This time Shackelton, who supports Democratic nominee Senator John Kerry, registered for an absentee ballot and spent a night last week watching her candidate debate President George W. Bush on a giant TV screen in a packed lecture hall in London. Shackelton...
Voters who can’t wait to cast a ballot in November can now pre-vote in a simulated election on a website designed earlier this month by two Harvard alums...
Michael McLeod, a resident of Nevada who plans to vote by absentee ballot, questioned whether the registration drive would make a difference...