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Cambridge residents head for the polls today to elect a new city council and school board in one of the most hotly contested races in recent history...
...just who are they? And why is each audience so fetched by its man? "All those 20 million people are not some kind of Nazis," Mary Matalin says of her fellow dittoheads. "What's really homogeneous about them is not their party affiliation but their mistrust of those they elect to lead them, mistrust of institutional media, inaccessibility to the system." Sounds not unlike Stern's fans, who, according to Robin Quivers, his radio sidekick of 12 years, "feel he's speaking for them. They're voices unheard. They're the hardworking people who pay all the taxes, and they...
...lines, almost by default, with blacks and liberal whites lining up for Dinkins and white ethnics backing Giuliani. The swing factor is the city's growing Hispanic electorate, which gave Dinkins 64% of its vote in 1989 but may deliver less for him this time around. Whichever candidate they elect, New Yorkers can only hope that their new chief executive will be modest enough to borrow a page or two from the new breed of mayors in America's smaller cities...
Although PR was once a common form of candidate selection, according to Richard Riche, the national director of the Center for Voting Rights, its popularity has dwindled until Cambridge is now the only U.S. city to elect officials in a proportional race. (Santa Cruz, Calif. is said to use a similar system, but officials there were unable to confirm that...
...October 17 run-off election was held between Garza and Reyes after the initial vice-presidential election resulted in Reyes' earning a plurality of the votes. Council procedure requires a majority to elect the vice president...