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...objections still arise: A vote for a third-party candidate can counterproductively split votes with the elector’s second-best choice. For example, in the 2000 election, 38 percent of those who voted for Nader would have voted for Gore if Nader had not run, while only 25 percent would have voted for Bush. However, in taking away from Gore’s totals by casting their vote for the Green Party, Nader’s supporters may have prevented their second-best choice from winning the election; the Nader voters ensured that the candidate whose policies were...
While fear is a common denominator, not everyone worries about the same things. Tom Metzger, who founded White Aryan Resistance in 1980 after breaking with the Ku Klux Klan, ridicules talk of a military invasion. "Ninety percent of that stuff is nonsense," he says. "We've got 10 million Mexicans flooding into this country, and the militias are worried about repainted helicopters." For their part, many militia groups aggressively weed out racists, and a few even have minority members. According to its leader, Fitzhugh MacCrae, New Hampshire's Hillsborough County Dragoons includes blacks, Latinos and Asians, and favors good works...
...four juniors from Northampton High School slept in tents on Cambridge Common last night as part of The Leadership Campaign, organized by the statewide organization Students for a Just and Stable Future. The campaign is calling for 100 percent clean energy in Massachusetts...
Last spring, several Business School students developed a version of this oath for the MBA Class of 2009 to sign and organized a ceremony at Class Day with the special permission of last year’s Student Association presidents. A total of 60 percent of the MBA Class of 2009 signed the oath—half of whom signed on Class...
...poll taken by The Harbus—the Business School’s student newspaper—in September showed that 59 percent of polled members of the Class of 2010 did not plan on signing the oath...