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Clearly, minorities and third-party candidates find it exceedingly difficult to gain representation in legislative bodies, because the donkeys or the elephants are able to marshal between 45 and 55 percent of the vote. Minority parties are often forced to abandon the fundamental principles of their constituencies merely to form a coalition with a majority party. This well-established party then grudgingly grants them nominal representation, just as the black vote is taken for granted by the Democratic Party...
...punks don't often make Broadway Market appearances...
...like to see and live the world with such vistas opening everywhere and in everything--in time. Whether a practice or an object, I like to pick it up and see its history, its predecessors, its equivalents, and to question obsolescence as often as possible. It's not retro or "classic," it's not Luddite, it's not fetishization or nostalgia, nor noodling trivia-mongering, nor slavish creative anachronism...
...Moreover, since the students in the room are often at different stages of pregnancy and parenthood, discussion has to be fluid. "Some people think it's impossible," says student mother Karen. "It's not impossible. It's hard but it's not like lifting up a truck and carrying it down a street. It's mostly hard at first...
Rational choice, for example, showed that those who would be affected by government regulations would be the only parties likely to try to influence the legislation. And so, counter-intuitively, such regulations often help rather than hinder the industries they are intended to control...