Word: doleful
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...Kennedy School's Vanishing Voter Project warns balefully, "Americans have been tuning out the campaign and staying home on Election Day." To combat this trend, which has seen turnout fall from an all-time high of 63 percent in 1960 to less than 50 percent in the Clinton-Dole race of '96, the election Puritans offer a laundry-list of reforms--a campaign-finance overhaul, mandatory voting and an improvement in what one watchdog group calls the "quality of the campaign discourse." Otherwise, these storm crows warn, American democracy will wither away and vanish, like the dodo and France...
...managing partner of the political consulting group Davis Manafort, Davis recently coordinated John McCain's presidential campaign and for years has been a political consultant since 1980, when he worked for Ronald Reagan. He was Senator Robert Dole's deputy campaign manager in the 1996 presidential campaign...
...Psychologists say that we spend most of our adult life refighting the unresolved battles of our childhood. So it is with this election. And ergo the fund-raiser concerts. Unlike 1992 and 1996, when baby boomer Clinton faced off against WWII veterans Bush Sr. and Dole, this election pits two kids of the '60s generation against each other. And their political differences are just a reflection of the cultural civil war of that...
...parallel with these local initiatives, the government has dismantled the "social disaster" of the welfare state, ending the dole, reforming public housing projects and changing education policies, all of which Grogan said contributed to depressing the inner-city...
...fiasco reminds us of Bob Dole's fall from the stage in Chico, Calif., late in his 1996 campaign. It wasn't anything in particular that Dole did, but the mishap confirmed some of the worst fears about the candidate: that he was old, had old policies and was running a faltering campaign. The same might be said here too for Bush. The ad makes him look underhanded and excessively juvenile in a frat-boy kind of way. Coming after last week's barnyard epithet, it makes the "change the tone, bring honor and dignity" crusade look a little thin...