Word: electivity
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...student body, elect the undergraduate council president and vice president? As the convoluted accusations and counter charges of the past weeks have grown more intense, this question has never been asked. The complications of the last presidential election make this a very opportune time to re-evaluate the merits of having the entire student body choose the leadership of the council...
This was the campaign Bush set out to run, with that talk of restoring the dignity of the office--and McCain is beating him at his own game. "People want to elect a statue," observes Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, a devout Bush backer. "They want a hero, an unblemished and unvarnished guy in the White House. They don't want to revisit the agony of the past eight years. Bush has to show his character is unvarnished and unblemished." But he's going to have to get past McCain...
...appears that those candidates who lost in the popular election cannot accept the student body's rejection of their candidacy. Instead, they have chosen to reverse the student decision to elect Burton. Now these same people want to deny the student body of its right to a recall vote and a choice to retain Burton as vice president...
...avoid this undercount, using statistical techniques to determine a more accurate estimate of the total population. Unfortunately, these techniques (known as "statistical sampling") were banned last year by a GOP Congress concerned that the minorities and inner-city voters who comprise a disproportionate number of the undercounted would elect Democrats and that more accurate numbers would threaten Republican seats. (The same Congress later attempted to include the census as an "emergency" appropriation, presumably because no one could have predicted that the year 2000 would come exactly ten years after 1990.) The Supreme Court ruled last year that current law forbids...
...party system, the future of America--and forged a bond that transcended partisanship. Bob had talent, humor and a good heart. He threw his body and mind into winning. He fought every round to the bell. He believed the country needed the people he was trying to elect. For five years, he and I parried on the Today show. Although we disagreed sharply on issues, it was clear to the audience that we didn't dislike each other. In fact, our mutual respect became a friendship. Bob will be missed not just by his party, but by those...