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...have expected that these problems would exact such a swift political price. If the recall proponents get 900,000 valid signatures by mid-July, a costly special election will be held in the fall. Voters will be asked whether Davis should be removed from office--and, on the same ballot, which candidate should replace him. With no runoff, the candidate who gets a plurality of votes wins--which makes it a wide-open contest. Several prominent Republicans, including losing gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon, former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan and movie actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, are eyeing the seat. One prospective...
...campaign called Continental Divide, has mostly been talk up to this point. But what talk! The play has nearly 50 characters, rapid-fire dialogue and an impossibly complicated plot involving leftover '60s radicals, skeletons in the closet, the clash between ideals and pragmatism in politics, and a hot-button ballot initiative that would mandate loyalty oaths for all voters. And that's only half the story. Daughters of the Revolution centers on the Democratic side of a gubernatorial race in an unnamed Western state; its companion play, Mothers Against, focuses on the Republican side. In all, it's six hours...
Smith states: “In our democracy, ambition can’t subordinate the will of the majority....” Al Gore won the 2002 election by over 500,000 votes. Florida was decided not at the ballot box but by Bush Sr. appointees. Obviously, ambition did subordinate the will of the majority...
...though Hitler cemented his power through deceit and thuggery, his gains also came through the ballot box. Without excusing its subject, Hitler shows why Germans followed him--some out of fear or opportunism, yes, but some because, for all his hate mongering, he and his Nazis were a party of optimism and vitality in a beaten-down, cynical nation. When he voices his twisted but near religious belief in Germanic exceptionalism--"Do you think there are any Jews in Valhalla?"--one can despise him while understanding the source of his power. He is the personification of Yeats' line: the worst...
...website, the 64 men were organized into paired brackets. Anyone willing to register an e-mail address can cast their e-ballot in each of the face-offs and then post their comments on the candidates to the site’s message board. After the first round of voting, the winner of each face-off advanced to the next round, narrowing the candidate pool down to 32 lucky senior men. The elimination process will proceed in this manner—with each voting period lasting 48 hours—through four more rounds until, on May 16, one senior...