Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Winter is challenging Republican Thad Cochran; and Iowa, where an acrimonious race is shaping up between freshman Senator Roger Jepsen, a conservative Republican, and Representative Tom Harkin, a liberal Democrat. In each case the outcome will partly turn on the popularity of the man at the top of the ballot, Ronald Reagan...
...whether we will allow the power of the ballot box to be overcome by the power of the gun." In other words, are those who want to stop funding the contras and diminish aid to El Salvador willing to take the risk of having Communism spread throughout Central America, and if not, how do they propose to stop it? That is not a question Democrats find easy to answer. Mondale and Hart have confined themselves largely to denouncing Reagan's policy; others talk vaguely of a "carrot and stick" approach (military pressure plus negotiations) toward Nicaragua, but are unable...
...protest were crude. They were not without a point, however, i.e., is it not concern able that organizations such as GLSA are equally morally reprehensible to some students' (No! No! Never at such a broad-minded University!) Or is it the case that morality is judged by popular ballot--more people despise Pi Eta's sexual ethic (as allegedly represented in its newsletter) than despise other groups' sexual choices? If this is the case then prepare for the worst--and don't scream when some majority legislates your morality...
...York debate and was judged by some commentators to have "won," may have achieved his victory the moment he sat down: just by appearing on an equal basis with Hart and Mondale, he was able to convey to his chief constituency, black voters, that casting a ballot for him was not an irrelevant act. Mondale and Hart, who squabbled almost nonstop in New York-not least about each other's accusatory TV ads-apparently took their cue from Jackson's success. In last Thursday's debate in Pittsburgh, there was barely a murmur of discord...
...march to Manila to protest the elections. Yet many of the prominent individuals in the opposition ranks wish to campaign, if only because they fear a power vacuum that could be filled either by Communist extremists or by the military. "If we do not solve this problem through the ballot," warns Jaime Cardinal Sin, the outspoken Archbishop of Manila, "I'm just too afraid that we might solve it through violence." As the factions continue to bicker and dither, many potential supporters may fall away...