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...Another challenge facing the G.O.P. is a stark drop-off in support among what is usually a core constituency: white evangelical Christians. According to TIME's poll, only 54% of people in this group favor Republican candidates, with 5% undecided. Thirty-eight percent of white evangelicals polled say they'll support Democrats. In 2004, exit polls indicated that 78% of this constituency voted for Bush. While the G.O.P. won out in the poll by seven points (42-35) as the party perceived as best equipped to protect moral values, a matter especially important to this group, the party's standing...
...said Jeanne Shaheen, the director of the IOP and a former governor of New Hampshire. While acknowledging that in the past, youth turnout has been significantly lower than what is presently indicated by the poll, Shaheen said that “even if there is some drop-off, there will still be an increase in what we have seen young people do in past midterm elections.” According to the poll President Bush was rated an average grade of “C-” on seven key issues: terrorism, education, environment, economy, health care, immigration...
...polls. Where an anti-gay-marriage initiative energized religious groups in 2004, labor says its forces are seeing the same effect from a measure this year that would raise the state minimum wage. Ohio AFL-CIO President William Burga says his organizers are targeting the 496,000 union "drop-off voters," who show up for presidential years but not in midterm elections. Meanwhile, he says, union operatives in the field are sensing a distinct lack of enthusiasm on the other side, particularly among religious voters. "They won't have the army they had in 2004," he predicts...
Donna Botti and her daughter Angela, 16, share those sentiments. On a recent Saturday evening as Angela was getting ready for a friend's sweet-16 party at a downtown Vegas club, she belatedly noticed the phrase "Parent Drop-off and Pickup Preferred" on her invitation. "How stupid is that? I have my own car," she scoffed. Although the festivities were supposed to end at 10 p.m., Angela had no intention of racing home in her shiny '05 Hyundai Tucson to make curfew. In fact, she and her parents said they were unaware that nighttime restrictions for teens existed until...
...civics instruction in college would not only diminish students’ freedom in selecting their courses, but it would likely do little but stave off students’ mental evaporation for an additional four years. Rather than encouraging colleges to institute mandatory civics courses, which might only delay a drop-off in knowledge retention four more years, the ISI should help promote ways of keeping political engagement alive outside the classroom. Extracurricular political organizations like Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP), which coordinates political activities and sponsors speakers and events, offer students an applied learning experience that...