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Limbaugh is ubiquitous at the grass roots in a way that Stern isn't and can never be. Here their careers really are apples and oranges -- although unquestionably a great big apple and a smaller orange. Limbaugh's radio show is carried on 628 stations, all but a few AM, scattered everywhere across America. Stern is on during morning drive time on 15 stations, almost all major FM outlets in the big cities of the West and Northeast. In New York, Stern has the top-rated show on any station at any time of day, with 1.2 million listeners...
That boast was prophetic. Last November religious-right candidates triumphed in about 40% of the more than 500 local and state races they contested nationwide. Since then, the conservatives have intensified their focus on school boards. "They provide a local forum at the grass-roots level in every community around which they can build a political network," says Michael Hudson of People for the American Way, an anticensorship watchdog group. "There is always something in the schools that mirrors cultural problems, whether sex education or AIDS or evolution." The strategy of the religious right, he says, is to "find...
...ribbons and waving large angry signs. They came to Washington last week to deliver a message to the President and the nation: breast cancer will strike at least 1 of every 9 women, so put more money into stopping the epidemic. Organized by the National Breast Cancer Coalition, a grass-roots movement with 70,000 members, the rally produced a quick response. During a meeting between the group's leaders and Bill and Hillary Clinton, the President pledged to draw up a "national action plan" for preventing, diagnosing and treating the disease...
Next week, when many school-board seats are again contested around the country, the right will be looking for signs that their grass-roots strategy is having a reverberation nationwide. Even if the echo proves disappointing, the Christian foot soldiers plan to continue exploiting dissatisfaction with the nation's schools in hopes of finding common cause with moderates and conventional conservatives. Looking ahead to more significant electoral battles in 1994, when voters in Idaho, Colorado and Arizona will address education issues at the ballot box, Ralph Reed, executive director of Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition, vows, "We'll be there...
When Norman and his neighbors joined forces, they also joined thousands of others across the country in a grass-roots movement that a few years ago seemed most unlikely: fighting major retailers trying to move into their neighborhoods. After years of passively accepting -- sometimes even welcoming -- the likes of Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Payless Drug Stores, K Mart and Price Club, residents are now protesting in the streets and hectoring at town planning meetings. They feel they are now wise to the disadvantages such stores bring: increased traffic, air pollution and cannibalization of their hometown retailers. Add modern media savvy...