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...more effective than political engagement at solving local problems, and a full 60 percent have come to believe that the same is true at the national level. Politics has become a dirty word; those who enter the political process are labeled as self-serving rather than committed by a margin of three to one. Community service sometimes brings instant gratification, with plenty of friendly faces and beaming kids; political involvement is a thankless task in which good work is easily lost amid petty differences and the lust for power...
...seen a slow, steady price rise on high-profit stuff like electronics. And the enormous premium that Greenlight.com is paying for placement on the site could be a sign of things to come, says Mike May, senior analyst at Jupiter Communications. "Increasingly, retailing is a Trojan horse for high-margin business like advertising," he notes...
...fact, in the four months since he took over the spot abandoned by ailing New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, the baby-faced congressman has outperformed Clinton in fund-raising by a margin of 3 to 1, collecting nearly $11 million over the past seven weeks, according to the New York Times. Clinton raked in about $3.5 million during the same time period - and it's testimony to these campaigns' stratospheric finances that such a gigantic number sounds slightly pathetic...
...bounce any more. Twelve days after Al Gore's "I am my own man" speech and ten weeks before November 7, the presidential race is in what the pulse-takers call "a statistical dead heat." Remember those words, "statistical dead heat," meaning all leads are within the poll's margin of error - you'll probably be hearing them all the way to Election...
...doing best in the West and the Deep South. But Gore has New York and California, which have three more electoral votes than all the Bush states west of the Mississippi. So the most important territory is the Midwest, where Bush's lead tends to fall within the margin of error. Bush is targeting several other states in the South and the Northwest that have voted for Clinton but have yet to embrace Gore. For Gore, winning the battleground states means solidifying his base--especially union voters considering Ralph Nader--and attracting moderates. Gore has a shot: some polls estimate...