Word: electivity
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...When Perot won 19 percent of the vote in 1992, when Ventura won the governorship of Minnesota in 1998, how many of those voters were trying to elect the Reform party? In 2000, how many Naderites would miss a beat if he were running as the presidential candidate of, say, the Blue party...
...inventive vote-swapping mechanism on pro-Nader websites to elect Gore and get Nader over 5 percent -- if you live in a swing state, trade your Nader vote for a Gore supporter's in, say, New York -- has been declared an illegal "corruption of the voting process" by California Secretary of State Bill Jones, a Republican. Two of the vote-swapping sites have shut themselves down...
...Republicans figure they've got a trump card: Bush. Not only is he apparently a compassionate guy, he's running for president - and, apparently, winning - on the very theme of ending partisan standoffs. So how could one more bickerfest, one that could last right up until the election, hurt the Republicans in November when one of their own is coming right in to soothe the savage beasts? The logic: Those who side with Republicans will turn out to elect them. Those who want to end the strife will turn out for Bush, and vote Republican. How can they lose...
...belong to the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys in Tucson, Ariz. While it is possible to get certified as a specialist by the National Elder Law Foundation, affiliated with the American Bar Association, only 200 lawyers have undergone that process so far. Caveat emptor, warns Charles Sabatino, president-elect of NAELA. "Anybody can call himself an elder-law attorney, and it doesn't necessarily mean anything...
...would look at the morally fascinating Nader Temptation - the dilemma of those who must decide whether to preserve their indignant purity by voting for Ralph Nader, thereby helping to elect George Bush, or whether to go with the imperfect but serviceable vehicle of their principles, Al Gore. A classic bind, with psychological roots in the Glorious Lost Cause mentality - virtue going down in flames, uncompromised...