Word: elections
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...quote former IOP Director Alan K. Simpson, we do not ask people to take a "saliva purity test." Republican candidates for national office this past year, including President-elect George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), sought to broaden the outreach of the party to include those who previously may not have identified with the GOP. The Republican Party and the HRC do not and will not condition acceptance on any sort of litmus test. Our organization's goal is to motivate, educate and inspire students in the Republican cause, not to draw battle lines and divide students...
...fact, in each of the past four years, the number of schools laying claim to Rhodes scholars-elect has met or set an American record, this year with a record spread of 28. At least eight schools have claimed their first Rhodes scholars in this time frame. With college admissions becoming more competitive across the country and schools beefing up honors programs and fellowships advising, this spread is probably the wave of the future...
...designed to protect the interests of smaller states and to overcome the geographical and communication obstacles inherent in the newly established republic, the electoral college, its opponents contend, is also a vestige of a paradoxically imperialistic philosophy toward democracy. The founders, it seems, did not trust the people to elect a candidate directly; the intellectual challenges of understanding a campaign might be beyond their ken. Instead, the people could vote for electors, who would travel, ostensibly on the voters' behalf, to cast their votes for the chosen candidate. It also was set up - for the same reason that each state...
...Palestinians were not alone in expressing caution over weekend. Vice President-elect Dick Cheney told ABC News that "there are concerns that the way the Clinton administration operated, at least in the past year or so, in the Middle East [has] made it more difficult to reach a settlement," and suggested that his administration would try to avoid the mistake of pushing for a final agreement on Jerusalem. Cheney's comments underline the expectation that the new Bush administration will eschew President Clinton's activist, micromanaging style to Mideast peace, and may adopt a less optimistic approach. The stated intention...
...Does the fact that President-elect Bush's foreign policy advisers signaled during the campaign that he'd pull U.S. troops out of the Balkans create an urgency for the Albanian separatists to act? After all, the U.S. has been the most enthusiastic backer in NATO of their demand for Kosovo's independence, which is opposed by most European NATO members...