Word: civic
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...forum, entitled, "Restoring Real Democracy: Elections, Voter Turnout, and the Decline in Civic Engagement Organizations," focused on why citizens, especially lower-class voters, were staying away from the polls. Over 100 people attended the forum, which took place at the Wiener Auditorium...
...Voting in a presidential election is a critically important act of civic participation for all eligible voters, but hardly because of its effect on the race results. After all, the outcome of an election with 100 percent turnout is statistically the same as an election decided by randomly choosing one vote from the population...
These are people who may not appear in the polls as likely to vote because the five minutes of civic duty may be five free minutes too many to ask of the shift manager, the childcare provider or the overworked spouse. For these men and women, undecided does not only describe their status on who to vote for--it describes their feelings on whether voting is worth their time...
...trend has political scientists and civic activists complaining like never before: Campaign finance laws, such as they are, exist to curtail the political influence of individual donors and interest groups by limiting campaign contributions to $2,000. Under existing legislation, however, those same donors can funnel unlimited funds into the Republican or Democratic parties, which in turn use the cash to buy campaign advertisements...
...presidential campaigns are finally heading into the homestretch. And in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan, where the all-important electoral votes could go to either candidate, that means Bush and Gore just never seem to leave - a tenacity that can prove awfully annoying. But this is a time for renewed civic hope - not heckling. And so here, to keep those spirits high, is the upside of living in the path of a political hurricane...