Word: nonpartisan
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...public loves the performance. Schwarzenegger enjoys a fairly stable 65% approval rating. What's more, California's economy has improved under his leadership. At the end of the Davis administration, 76% of California voters said they believed the state was going in the wrong direction, according to the nonpartisan Field poll. Today the figure is 38%, and 46% think things are heading upward. "There is a new sense of optimism in the state, new energy flowing from the Governor," says Gavin Newsom, the Democratic mayor of San Francisco and no automatic supporter of Schwarzenegger, who frowned on Newsom's February...
...coming due. He has tried to use his popularity to go around the Democrat-controlled legislature, but governing through ballot initiatives has its limits. "Arnold is the 'stop the bleeding' guy," says Joel Kotkin, a Schwarzenegger supporter who is an economic analyst at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington. "But I don't know if he is going to do the reconstructive surgery...
...statehouse now determines voting districts, the current map generally ensures that incumbents face minimal challenges to re-election. That promotes the election of politicians who tend toward the extremes of their parties, and the resulting polarity in the statehouse produces gridlock. Schwarzenegger wants to set up a panel of nonpartisan judges to supervise redistricting. If, as expected, the legislature opposes the idea, he is considering going back to the people in a special election. "It is one option we have, definitely," says Mike Murphy, a senior adviser to Schwarzenegger. The Governor has also floated the notion of reducing the legislature...
...evidence shows, the state of this balance is woeful. A 2004 report from the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics shows that among professors at the nations top schools Democrats outnumber Republics by roughly seven to one in the social sciences and humanities. At Harvard, during this election season, employee groups gave 19 times more in campaign donations to John Kerry than George W. Bush, and they constituted the second largest source of group donations to the Kerry campaign in the entire country, ahead of runners up Time Warner, Goldman Sachs and Microsoft...
Ilan T. Graff ’05, president of the nonpartisan Institute of Politics, said he has not found his professors biased in class...