Word: litmus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Waxing third-party vitality focuses a penetrating light on the state of our political system, and acts as a litmus test to measure whether the major parties are indeed accurate indicators of citizen demands. The chemistry is simple: If Republicans over-react by precipitously slashing too many popular programs, and if Democrats cannot synthesize ideas more in line with fiscal responsibility, a third party--with mega-funding as a catalyst--will create an entirely new political equation...
...general has become the nitroglycerin of the 1996 presidential contest. Virtually no one wants to jostle him out of fear that his popularity--and any slighting of his person--could prove explosive. Powell's admirers say his appeal revolves around leadership rather than litmus tests, and polls support that idea. A TIME/CNN survey, taken after Powell proclaimed his moderate-to-liberal social views, indicated that if Powell were to run as an independent, he would win 33% of the vote, against President Clinton's 30% and Senator Bob Dole...
According to Luke A. Sarsfield '95, a member of the HRA, the new club embraces "all brands of Republicanism" and differs from the HRC in that it does not exclude those who fall short of a conservative "ideological litmus test...
Another professor who spoke on condition ofanonymity, however, says some may see no reason touse such an age litmus test...
...majority status. But that would threaten the party's support among minorities and women and, worse, probably spark a challenge to the President in next year's election from Jesse Jackson, who talked cordially to Clinton about affirmative action last week but is still making the programs' protection his litmus test...