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...members are furious over the split with Roh and have vowed to stop the new vanguard from scoring big at the ballot box. With his own popularity in free fall, analysts say Roh could wind up leading a minority party, his presidency paralyzed by a conservative opposition and a vengeful MDP. "He could remain as a lame-duck President," says Ahn Chung Si, a political scientist at Seoul National University. "If that doesn't work out, he may have to step down...
...range, he had no capital with lawmakers. Does Arnold have the skills to do better? He better hope so - he only has three years before he faces reelection, not to mention that it wouldn?t be hard for Democrats to get a new recall on the ballot if he should stumble. Here comes the hard part...
Wearing a T-shirt that read, “The Smut Peddler who cares! Flynt for Governor,” Patashnik said that, although he voted by absentee ballot against the recall and for Bustamante, the shirt captured his feelings about the election. “It’s symbolic because it mocks the whole process,” he said...
...Schwarzenegger, Hayden said that allegations of sexual misconduct recently brought against the former bodybuilder “turned the elections around, but probably too late,” as 2.8 million people voted several weeks ago by absentee ballot...
...official number of signatures needed to place the recall on the ballot was 897,158—less than 2.6 percent of California’s nearly 35 million people and just 12 percent of the state’s voter turnout in November 2002. With this unbelievably low threshold, it is unsettling to think what would happen if the same recall policy was applied to a President whose approval ratings fell below fifty percent. As opinion polls often fluctuate with considerable volatility, a recall available at the federal level could easily allow special interests groups to manipulate the process?...