Word: buchananism
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...itself, this isn't news, though many experts feel Wallerstein overstates the case. That divorce may screw them up for a long, long time and put them at risk for everything from drug abuse to a loveless, solitary old age is more disturbing--and even more debatable. Christy Buchanan, a professor of psychology at Wake Forest University and co-author of Adolescents After Divorce (Harvard), is typical of Wallerstein's detractors. "I think the main drawback of the sort of research she does is that you can't necessarily generalize it to a broad population," Buchanan says. "The other caution...
...fact that candidates like Nader and Buchanan have emerged indicates a shift in political attitudes yet unrecognized by either major candidate. Voters feel abandoned by the political process, as candidates promise campaign finance reform but take millions of dollars from private interests; while they argue about how the RATS got into their campaign commercials or how they can adopt each other's stance as their own. Many voters have simply become alienated from their own political process. Others are tired of waiting and have begun to work for and seek out their own choices. If the Debate Commission continues...
These examples highlight the important role debates can have in shaping the scope of the political discussion. Any Bush/Gore debate that excludes Green Party candidate Ralph Nader and Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan will be a Democrat-Republican collusion to control the scope of the political discussion in this country. Whatever one thinks of the merits of either minor party candidate, they have exciting ideas which ought to be debated and discussed...
...part, Buchanan is keeping a brave face. "This Reform Party skirmish is over," he said, perhaps optimistically. "It's on to November." At the convention he surprised nearly everyone by choosing a black woman as his running mate. Ezola Foster, a former Los Angeles schoolteacher, seemed the antidote to accusations that Buchanan isn't inclusive. And it also seemed right for this Summer of Love as the G.O.P. reaches out to minorities and Al Gore broke barriers by picking Joe Lieberman. But upon closer inspection, it was hard to see how the all-but-unheard-of Foster could energize Buchanan...
...BUCHANAN Reform Party kaput; polls lousy; picks a black Bircher woman as Veep. A landslide fer sure...