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...While both Obama and his Republican opponent John McCain support ROTC’s presence on college campuses, Obama has said that if elected, he would favor repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell...
Millions of Minnesotans awoke with such queasiness last Wednesday. Sure, the gubernatorial campaign had been a hoot, what with a no-chance-on-earth third-party candidate marauding about the state and providing some comic relief from the stiffs who headed up the Republican and Democratic tickets. But the election was supposed to signal sober-up time. Instead, the good citizens of Minnesota learned that they--or 37% of the 61% of those who went to the polls--had voted into the Governor's office a 6 ft. 4 in., 250-lb. shaved-head former professional wrestler and Twin City...
...joking had subsided, the head scratching began. For Ventura's triumph in Minnesota was a stunning political upset with unforeseen causes and unpredictable consequences. He was the first candidate of Ross Perot's Reform Party to win statewide office. He defeated two respected, if not beloved, career politicians--Republican Norm Coleman, mayor of St. Paul, and Democrat Hubert ("Skip") Humphrey III, state attorney general and son of the late Vice President. Ventura's slogan, "Retaliate in '98," seemed an off-key way to appeal to voters in a prosperous and well-governed state with 2.4% unemployment. Retaliate for what...
...With this site, I’m able to click on them, skim through them real fast, and see a ‘yes’ vote means this, a ‘no’ vote means this.”Robert Willington, executive director of the Massachusetts Republican Party, said he agreed that Imagine Election plays an important role in streamlining user-specific information for voters. “There is nothing worse than voting at the top of the ticket, and then blanking the bottom races due to a lack of information, ignorance...
...have poured in since May, when the California Supreme Court turned what had been a slow-moving ballot initiative into a white-hot controversy by issuing the most sweeping declaration of fundamental gay rights to be found in U.S. law. Not only must gays be allowed to marry, the Republican-dominated court said, but it also flatly outlawed nearly any kind of discrimination against them...