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...Somewhere in southern Spain, however, a nagging worry caught up with me. Americans—particularly young Americans—have democratic freedoms but don’t use them. According to the web site IDEA (the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance), in the 26 national elections since 1945, the average voter turnout rate for citizens age 18 to 24 has been only 48.3 percent. This is well below France (67.3 percent), Spain (77 percent), and even Morocco (57.6 percent). (China hasn’t had comparable elections.) Americans in this age group, aptly dubbed “Generation...
...Harvard undergraduate was caught producing fake state driver’s licenses and Harvard identification cards, including some that would have granted access to campus buildings and Crimson Cash accounts, University officials said Monday...
...jumped from their seats and ran to the parking lot. An overflow crowd of 200 for Mitt, whose events had been drawing merely respectable crowds, would be news. A short jog to the parking lot revealed: satellite trucks and some people carrying Ron Paul signs. Oh. A Romney staffer caught up with us: "They were just here...
...Undecided Hanover voter Jane Hooper, who caught up with Obama in Lebanon, is weighing a choice today between him and John Edwards. "Who knows what he can do when he gets in there," she said. But she liked what she heard: "He's fresh and we need something like that...
Even Bill Clinton seemed caught by surprise, referring bitterly before the vote to Obama's "tidal wave" of support. "This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen," he said. He turned out to be right, only his candidate was the frog-prince...