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...influence government as long as government tries to influence us. By banning soft money donations to political parties, McCain-Feingold will force money to shift from parties, which are broad coalitions that appeal to the center in order to build majorities and are accountable at the ballot box, to independent groups that answer only to their own members...
...Today's workers see work as a way to put their values into practice - where you work has become something of a political choice," says Richard Reeves, director of futures at the Industrial Society, a U.K. think tank. "For this generation, which box you put your ballot in on election day may matter less than which desk you put your butt behind every...
...self-interest actually is. He has made the case that money has so debased politics in America that every politician is personally debased as well. And, finally, that if they can do something that the voters might actually perceive as statesmanlike, those same voters will reward them at the ballot...
...election will also gauge extremist sentiment in the country: the ultra-right-wing Republicans are on the ballot. Because of the country's Nazi past and continuing attacks by neo-Nazi skinheads, public support for far-right organizations is closely monitored in Germany. What's more, ballots for the Republicans are generally regarded as protest votes that would normally go to the more centrist cdu. In the 1996 election, the Republicans received 9.1% of the votes in Baden-Württemberg, but the prognosis for this year is just 5%. "I think this year the Republicans will do less well...
...that can no longer afford skyrocketing rents and the chains, real estate offices and pricey boutiques that can. Says Mime Troupe playwright Joan Holden: "It's been a David-and-Goliath knock-down, drag-out fight--the people against city hall." In the November election, the battleground was competing ballot propositions. Prop L, advanced by artists and activists, would have protected artists' spaces from dotcom takeovers, while Mayor Willie Brown's Prop K would have set less stringent limits on new office development. Both propositions lost--L by a razor-thin margin. But the people may be gaining the upper...