Word: platformization
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Money is what made it possible for Jon Corzine, the bearded, bespectacled and besweatered former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs, running on an unabashed liberal platform, to go from near anonymity to beat former Governor Jim Florio in last week's New Jersey primary. His open wallet opened the minds of many Democratic bosses to his novice candidacy--he even put spouses of party officials and a county chair on the payroll. Spending about $140 per vote cast, sprinkling more than $2 million in get-out-the-vote money around the state, he might as well have ferried each voter...
...South Korea is one of Asia's long-term economic success stories, and North Korea represents opportunities for its economic expansion into a global powerhouse. A majority of its electorate clearly favors moves toward reunification, which has always been a central theme of President Kim Dae Jung's political platform, and skeptics will have been quieted by the overwhelming enthusiasm the summit generated among South Koreans. But once the dewy afterglow has subsided, years of tough negotiations lie ahead, and Seoul will be in no hurry to relinquish U.S. protection in the interim. And Seoul has it reasons in taking...
...Lazio in her own voice (instead of capitalizing on the distance created by a negative ad or surrogate), the First Lady could be backing herself into a very uncomfortable scenario in which she's cast as the "angry" candidate while her opponent cruises to victory on a platform of somewhat nebulous (but largely unthreatening) moderation...
...Beth A. Stewart '00 is elected president of the Undergraduate Council president on a student-services platform. In one of the most hotly-contested races in council history, Stewart edged out her closest competition by 48 votes...
...Seton-Redmond ticket narrowly defeats the "healthy Harvard" platform of T. Christopher King '01, a candidate who grabbed national headlines by arguing that religious discrimination played a role in his defeat...