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...could come back to haunt Shays this fall. His Democratic challenger, Dianne Farrell, who surprised political observers by losing by only 4 points to Shays in 2004, has made Shays' support of President Bush's war the centerpiece of her campaign. Her campaign may well prove to be a referendum on her party's prospects for taking back control of the House. If they want to have any shot at it, Dems will have to win back moderate Republican seats in Democratic-leaning areas like the Northeast - where the war may be their most effective weapon...
...Republican challenge is, prove to the country that this is a choice, not a referendum. The Democratic problem is make this a referendum, not a choice...
...visited Vermont to campaign alongside Welch, drawing over a thousand supporters to a rally, Lesser added. State Republicans have hired the advertising firm responsible for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth advertisements in the 2004 presidential election, according to Welch. The state senator characterized the race as a local referendum on the presidency. “People see this election...as an opportunity to put a check and balance on the direction in which George Bush is headed,” Welch said. Some students at the event said they were impressed with the candidate. “State Senator...
...what can you do as a Harvard student? Register to vote in Massachusetts. Get involved. There’s a motion to get gay marriage on the ballot as a referendum question in 2008, and as members of the top young minds in America, we should make our voice heard. Go to campus events on state politics, like those that the Harvard College Democrats are sponsoring in honor of Mass. Politics Week...
...similar note, we hope the UC does not act on suggestions of holding a campus referendum of student confidence in University President Lawrence H. Summers. Setting aside our opposition to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) upcoming vote, conducting a student poll would have a highly tenuous basis. The relationship between Summers and students is often ambiguous and students’ understanding of that relationship far from adequate. These problems are compounded by the fact that any phrasing of the question would have undue influence over the outcome of a binary poll. Finally, we are concerned that...