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There is an axiom in American politics that says whenever a sitting President is running for a second term, the election is more a referendum on him than a judgment on his opponent. President George W. Bush has taken this truism to a new level. With just under a year to go before Nov. 2, 2004, Americans are already finding ways to show how passionately they feel about their President. In August, KB Toys rolled out its George W. Bush Elite Force Aviator doll, a 12-in. action figure in full naval flight gear...
...marriage. With an eye to numbers like that, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican, is urging the adoption of a state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. But under state law, amendments have to be approved by two successive sessions of the legislature and then by a voter referendum--a process that would take at least three years. Four Cambridge city-council members already have a plan that would begin issuing symbolic marriage licenses there as soon as this week...
...APPROVED. TAIWAN REFERENDUM LAW, passed by the island's legislature, which for the first time will allow Taiwanwide referendums, a gesture of sovereignty that could rile Beijing, which maintains that Taiwan is part of China; in Taipei. President Chen Shui-bian had supported a broad measure that would have allowed a plebiscite on any constitutional changes, but the opposition Kuomintang managed to pass a law that prohibits a vote on constitutional issues and independence (unless Taiwan is attacked by the mainland...
...junked the plan for Iraqi self-rule that he unveiled last summer. Under the original proposal, the council, made up of Iraqi notables appointed by the U.S., was to propose how a constitution might be drafted by December. After the document was written, it would be ratified in a referendum, and only then would a sovereign Iraqi government be elected. The whole process could have taken up to four years. In recent weeks, however, it had become plain that the council would not meet the December deadline, which had been enshrined in a U.N. Security Council resolution. "They got things...
...even bigger bind. He has called for a high-risk national referendum next month on whether he should continue to govern. "If Roh approves any deployment," says Lee Seung Hun of the Democratic Labor Party, which currently supports Roh, "I can guarantee he'll find the rest of his presidency unbearable." The U.S. is being forced to relearn an old lesson in Asia: all politics are local...