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Huge wallscapes appeared on Los Angeles and San Francisco buildings last week featuring a bruised and desperate-looking man with a Band-Aid on his nose. Above him was the question WILL YOUR BUSINESS BE TERMINATED? The brazen ads, sponsored by Nevada economic-development officials, seek to lure Golden State companies across the border by stressing California's high workers'-comp and utility costs. And they take aim at the Terminator himself, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger...
Michael McLeod, a resident of Nevada who plans to vote by absentee ballot, questioned whether the registration drive would make a difference...
...spokesman, Michael Meehan, dismissed the group as “the national laughingstock.” And he’s probably right. Despite the fact that the ads will run on cable and in the influential—and up-for-grabs—states of Pennsylvania, Nevada and New Mexico, the group has already been exposed as dubious, so it’s unlikely that the American public will put much stock in the new ads—I hope. Rather, the group’s revitalization is just indicative of the problem endemic to current campaign finance...
Fearing another Nader nightmare in 2004, Democrats have mounted court challenges to his ballot petitions in states across the country. Nader angrily decries the tactic as anti-democratic and illegal, but in most cases it has failed. Which means that in key toss-up states like New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and, once again, Florida, Nader could siphon from Kerry enough liberal votes to deliver the election to Bush. In the latest TIME poll, Nader draws a surprisingly high 5% of the vote nationally. "Ralph Nader played a spoiler role in the 2000 election, and he could just as easily...
...allowing gay marriage would degrade, in any way, my marriage. Considering what gays have to go through to get married, most gay couples who want to marry are probably less likely than straight couples to get divorced, since 50% of straight marriages fail. MARK J. OLBERDING Nevada, Iowa...