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...Person of the Year, I nominate Al Gore. He won the popular vote for President in 2000 and arguably won Florida--and had it stolen from him in a 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court vote that fell along partisan lines. Since that election, Gore has devoted himself to bringing awareness to environmental issues that endanger the planet, namely global warming...
...result is VoteGopher.com, a Web site devoted to unbiased information on presidential candidates and their views on a wide scope of issues. VoteGopher.com is staffed primarily by Harvard undergraduates who have all taken a “non-partisan oath,” according to the website...
...declaring endorsements for this year’s Undergraduate Council (UC) presidential election, the major political organizations have crossed partisan divides. The Harvard College Democrats chose to back Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, a former member of the Harvard Republican Club (HRC), while the HRC itself endorsed Democrat Roy T. Willey IV ’09 over active HRC member Frances I. Martel...
Total national health expenditures were $2 trillion in 2005, according to the non-partisan National Coalition on Health Care...
...donation box for the troops brings voters’ attention to the war in Iraq while they are in the polling booth. Indeed, psychological studies have shown that attitudes are dramatically affected by even small visual cues. The problem isn’t that the boxes are themselves partisan, but that they single out a highly partisan issue and call attention to it. It is not hard to imagine that a voter who entered the polling place slightly undecided might vote one way when confronted with an “Iraq War” sign and oppositely if there were...