Word: nonpartisan
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When one student asked a pointed question of health care policy, I began to explain in a wholly nonpartisan way what the arguments were for both sides. She simply walked away, saying it was “shameful” that there was another view. It was as though she was afraid to hear about competing arguments, and afraid to intellectually assess the situation...
Democrats will also benefit from the efforts of nonpartisan groups focused on registering and turning out minority voters. In New Mexico, a loose association of nonprofits incuding Moving America Forward has registered more than 70,000 new voters, more than enough to shift the political terrain in the Democrats’ favor. This is happening in almost every swing state. The polls show a closely divided country, but these new voters, most of whom are Democrats, are not being polled. All the polls are measuring an electorate that no longer exists. The real electorate is larger and more Democratic than...
...which concludes that Kerry's plan would add as much as $2.5 trillion to the deficit. But Bush's wish list is pricey too: at least $1.5 trillion to create private Social Security accounts and $1 trillion to make all his tax cuts permanent, according to estimates by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and other analysts...
...near-perfect record for picking winners in presidential elections. The campaigns and their allies have spent $72 million bombarding Ohio voters with political ads that have been shown some 82,000 times on television since March more than in any other state, according to figures by the nonpartisan Campaign Media Analysis Group. Nowhere in Ohio is the race more hard-fought than in Democratic-tilting Columbus and the ring of six reliably Republican counties that surround it. "It could well be that whoever wins the Columbus media market wins the state," says Steve Rosenthal, the head...
...track of them: at several houses where Lindquist stopped that afternoon, the registered voter had moved without leaving a phone number or forwarding address. "We don't bring 300 kids from Ohio State University into the inner city of Columbus," says David Leland, national director of Project Vote, a nonpartisan arm of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which claims it has registered more than 50,000 voters in the Columbus area. "I don't know that they have the same credibility, and they're not as effective" as community activists, says Leland. Adds a top Republican...