Word: runoffs
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...gusto as they did, say, the anti-gay-marriage movement anytime soon. Still, I take satisfaction in knowing that even a few leaders of that politically influential constituency have started pestering policy makers about more aggressive pollution control. If I have to lie awake nights being worried that the runoff from some waste incinerator in Ohio is somehow going to cause my baby to be born with webbed feet, I want Karl Rove and Bill Frist to be fretting about those issues as well...
...rival Howard Dean, giving the national party $1 million when Dean took over as chairman. He donated $250,000 to the recount effort of Christine Gregoire, who eventually won a very close Governor's race in Washington. Venturing into local politics, he will probably endorse Antonio Villaraigosa in a runoff election for mayor in L.A., choosing a loyal supporter over incumbent James Hahn. "He gets to travel and gets to pick up IOUs," says former party chairman Steve Grossman, a Boston fund raiser who served as Dean's campaign chairman...
Congressman Lyndon Johnson was locked in a fight for his political life in Texas--an epic run for the U.S. Senate against the popular conservative former Governor, Coke Stevenson. Johnson beat Stevenson, in a runoff primary election, by 87 suspect, late-counted votes from south Texas...
...permanent campaign” of national politics. Staggering local elections with national elections only makes this burnout worse. For example, the mayoral election in Los Angeles is the fourth major election in a year and a half (after the recall, the primary and the presidential election), and the runoff that will likely follow will be the fifth. As a result, the Los Angeles Times has reported greater voter apathy and disinterest in the current election than in past mayoral elections. It’s hard enough to get voters to the polls once, so there is no reason to drag...
...combination of fusion voting with instant runoff voting could only serve to expand the options available to citizens, enrich the content of political debate, and turn third parties from spoilers into innovators. It’s taken two parties to get us into the deadlock in which we find ourselves today. It may take three, four, or five to get us out—and it may take a new kind of politics to fulfill the promise of American democracy...