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...dunk House election in a conservative New York district, then Senator Arlen Specter. Polls suggest that only one-fourth of the electorate considers itself Republican, that independents are trending Democratic and that as few as five states have solid Republican pluralities. And the electorate is getting less white, less rural, less Christian - in short, less demographically Republican. GOP officials who completely controlled Washington three years ago are vowing to "regain our status as a national party" and creating woe-is-us groups to resuscitate their brand, while Democrats are publishing books like The Strange Death of Republican America...
...first miles of Australia's new network will be laid in Tasmania as soon as July. The rest of the nation will follow early next year, with the emphasis on tackling black spots and bringing faster connections to rural areas. Ultimately, the network will be capable of data-transmission speeds of up to one gigabit per second, says John Lindsay, carrier relations manager at Internode, an Internet service provider that delivers broadband to Fernbrooke and across Australia. "The network will evolve over a 40-year period," he says. "Fiber is a pretty future-proof technology...
...lite phenomenon, and that this Indian election, like nearly every one that has preceded it, will be decided by the masses in India's villages, who vote for the candidate most likely to bring them bijli, pani, sadak - power, water and roads. But even young people in rural areas are looking for something new: not just a better life, but a better system. Vikram Rai, for example, is a 29-year-old college lecturer in Darjeeling, in northeastern India, who can't understand why the water from the lush green countryside is only enjoyed by some people...
...Safety First young rural and urban voters are also connected by their worries over security. India's cities may be the main targets for terrorist attacks, but many of its villages have become battlegrounds of a different kind. Maoist Naxalite groups have attacked more than a dozen polling stations in five different states since voting began, killing 29 security personnel. Vinay Ikka, a 30-year-old farmer and social worker, lives in Jashpur, a village in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, in a small house surrounded by a mango and lychee orchard. He loves the forest life, but fears...
...rapid migration of young people out of villages and toward the cities is also blurring the distinction between rural and urban voters. B.D. Raghu, 26, commutes two hours by train, each way, to Bangalore from his home in Mandya, a village 62 miles (100 km) away. He has been doing this every day for eight years, working as a ticket collector in a parking lot, as a warden in a youth hostel, then as a counter clerk in a juice bar and now as the office manager for a local advocacy group, where he earns about $100 a month. "When...