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Talk of kissing babies and fashion sense took up nearly as much air time as discussions of platform issues such as ad board reform and UC party grants...
...interviews by asking the candidates to describe their platform in four words, to which Roy T. Willey IV ’09 responded, “student life, student voice” and Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 suggested “ad board reform, awesome...
...even close in terms of the depth of experience that they bring to the table,” Dems President Jarret A. Zafran ’09 said, adding that Sundquist-Sarafa’s priorities align with the Dems on issues such as the reform of the Administrative Board...
Until recently, Venezuela's opposition was so weak and fragmented it seemed unable to even fathom an electoral victory. But, in the early morning hours on Monday, it sealed a surprising triumph over the constitutional reform proposal of a President who, in nine years, had never lost an election. Scrambling to explain this aberration in a land where Hugo Chavez dominates the political landscape, many political observers point to the thousands of university students, who, dormant until this year, clogged the streets to protest the reform in the weeks leading up to the vote. Raul Baduel, the former defense minister...
...used to be a given that Chavez could count on the lower class, which represents the majority of the population, to turn the vote his way. Clearly, after logging 49% of the vote for his controversial reform, Chavez still has many of the poor on his side. The electoral council has yet to release detailed results that would indicate how impoverished areas voted. But an abstention rate of 44% suggests some of Chavez's traditional support base didn't show up to vote. And, narrow as the vote count was, the rejection of his proposal only one year after...