Word: balloters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that people haven’t been talking before this, it’s that now, people seem ready to listen and to try to understand. It’s a crowded field and cutting through the din and disinformation will take considerable effort to make climate change a ballot issue in every local, state, and federal race...
...religious enough to attract voters in the socially conservative Bible belt. However, unlike your typical Dick Cheney Republican, she appeals to typically Democratic demographics. Black women, who usually vote Democratic, may be inclined to give the Republican ticket a second look if they see someone on the ballot who personally understands their struggle as black women. Rice is intimately familiar with black issues. She was actually there in 1963 when the Ku Klux Klan bombed Birmingham’s sixteenth Street Baptist Church killing four young girls. In an interview with 60 Minutes Rice remembered, “Well...
...dramatic rise in gasoline prices has caused widespread public anger, as every member of Congress who went home for the Memorial Day break is no doubt aware. Support for lowering energy prices is something that has both broad and deep support in America; it will drive voters to the ballot box. And although Warner-Lieberman, or any future cap-and-trade bill, is unlikely to hike the price of gasoline, it will surely be used as a convenient political scapegoat...
...Democratic National Committee's rules. Representatives from Hillary Clinton's campaign argued for why both delegations should be seated in full and in a manner fully reflective of her substantial victories in the two states. Representatives from Barack Obama's campaign countered that he wasn't even on the ballot in Michigan, and suffered at the polls in Florida because he wasn't able to campaign there. Then the committee broke for what was supposed to be a one hour lunch, and both Clinton and Obama supporters repaired to the hotel bar, alternately cheering when images of their favored candidates...
...committee also voted to seat Michigan's full 157-member delegation, each with half-a-vote. But because Obama had (along with John Edwards) taken himself off the ballot, figuring out how to apportion the delegates was much trickier. Following a plan endorsed by the Michigan Democratic Party, the committee voted to allot Clinton, who won 55% of the vote, 69 delegates, and Obama, who most believed was the overwhelming choice of the 40% of Michigan primary voters who chose "uncommitted", 59. If the delegates had been meted out based strictly on the actual vote Clinton should've gotten...