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...last time Chris Shannon voted for a President, it was for a Republican, Ronald Reagan, and the year was 1980. This time, the 42-year-old former U.S. special-forces soldier, who has lived in Japan for the past seven years, will be casting his ballot for Democrat John Kerry. Shannon is eager to vote because he thinks President George W. Bush has mishandled the Iraq war. But Shannon is doing much more than exercising his own civil rights: he's also helped register some 200 other Tokyo-based Americans and is leading a group of them to Florida...
...believed to have a traditional 3-to-1 advantage, thanks in part to large numbers of overseas troops who tend to vote Republican. "I think you can count on a lot of votes for the President here," says Caryln Manning, head of Republicans Abroad in the Philippines. But Democrats argue that there are lots of expats who are against Bush but might not have bothered to register yet?not to mention the possibility that war-weary soldiers might now oppose the Commander in Chief who sent them to Iraq. Hoping to capitalize on such anti-Bush sentiments, Hong Kong-based...
Noah Hertz-Bunzl ’08 lives in Holworthy. He is an active Harvard College Democrat...
...rumpled Rosenthal is trying to work the same magic for the Democratic Party as a whole. He has $125 million at his disposal--including $10 million from billionaire George Soros--which is about seven times what the national Democratic Party spent getting out the vote in 2000. Rosenthal's America Coming Together is the largest of the new political-advocacy organizations known as 527s for the section of the tax code that created them. On Election Day, Rosenthal expects to have 45,000 paid workers on the streets rounding up every Democrat they can find to vote. The secret...
Supporters of 36 argue that the proposed system would more accurately represent the will of the people. Presidential elections create the illusion that there are solid Republican and solid Democratic states. But in the 2000 race, in red Colorado, Al Gore won the support of more than 42% of the voters. Bush won 41% in blue California. If every state adopted 36's rules, those supporters' votes would count for something. "It could make California and New York worth a Republican effort," says James Gimpel, an Electoral College expert at the University of Maryland. "Wouldn't it be nice...