Word: referendum
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Leave the fancy psychological theorizing aside. Times are good. Growth is steady, unemployment and inflation are low, the deficit is way down. Elections in peacetime are always a referendum on the economy. Voters may not be certain whether Clinton deserves the credit, but they may not care. They won't dislodge the incumbent under these sunny circumstances...
Even within the Reform Party, excitement seems to be at a minimum. For the party's nomination referendum, a total of 880,298 ballots were received by signers of Reform Party petitions. Only 4.9% of them responded, with Perot garnering two-thirds of their votes and Lamm getting 28%. In the arcane process Perot has designed, anyone getting more than 10% of the votes was deemed eligible to contest the party's nomination for President. Round 2, in which voters will be able to cast mail, phone or E-mail ballots for one of the two candidates, has already begun...
...were generally very popular, find it difficult to imbue our children with that same enthusiasm. Most of us now know the royals are no different from other people. William, the "fresh heir," as you describe him, should be released from the kingship of his country. Let there be a referendum on the monarchy soon. I believe it will save Wills some heartache. LOUIS PROCTOR Liverpool, England...
...sexual orientation as retribution for his support of a federal bill rejecting same-sex marriages. Jeff Yarbrough, editor in chief of The Advocate, a national gay magazine, said it was hypocritical of Kolbe to live a "semi-open homosexual life" in Washington and then vote against a "pro-gay referendum." Kolbe said he was initially angry about being pressured to disclose the information, but told the Associated Press that having done so, he was relieved. The divorced Republican, who is running for a seventh term in Congress, said "That I am a gay person has never affected the way that...
...last election was the first national referendum on the process since the self-anointed, media-appointed "peacemakers" foisted their own brand of "peace" upon a people that understandably had many second thoughts about giving up what millions of them have died for over the course of so many centuries...