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...next best scenario is that you win by losing - i.e., you endorse a candidate who genuinely shares your principles and work hard for him; if the party ignores you and picks someone like Rudy who goes on to lose next November, you get to say "see, that's what happens when you try to do this without us." And having invested your principles, you have now the added dividend that in future races candidates will know they can't afford to ignore...
...Maoists see themselves as the agents of democracy in Nepal, stifled by the objections of reactionary, status-quo forces, while many in the Congress, let alone in factions aligned still to the ancien régime of the monarchy, doubt the radical guerrillas' commitment to any political scenario where they may not retain complete control. Despite a compromise thrashed out at the end of last year, which set elections for this April, observers expect conflict to be inevitable. "What more must we give the Maoists?" asks R.S. Mahat, Nepal's Finance Minister and a Congress Party member. "Their strategy...
...electability: A third-party candidate faces difficult odds in winning the next presidential election. However, a strong show of support for a particular third-party platform might compel the two major parties to incorporate elements of that platform into their own.There is a strong historical precedent for exactly this scenario. Most recently, Ross Perot’s popularity in 1992 (he won 18.9 percent of the popular vote) forced both parties to seriously address the ballooning national debt. For Perot, who had structured his campaign around its potential to “send a message” to incumbent parties...
...Second, regional identities could hasten the divide-and-conquer approach. Under this scenario, each candidate plays - for reasons of time, money and simplicity - to his geographical strength. That has happened in the past in big, multi-candidate, multi-state primaries. Given the nature of the field - one candidate from New York, another from the Southwest; a third from the heartland and a fourth who's got both cultural links to the intermountain West and a record in New England - it could well happen again...
...which destruction makes room for new life and nature gloriously reclaims a human-free earth. In The Road, McCarthy?following Eliot and Mad Max?imagines an earth from which every cell of nonhuman life has been burned. It's a vivid fantasy, but it's not the most plausible scenario. Alan Weisman's The World Without Us, a sleeper hit last year, is a carefully researched look at what a depopulated earth would really be like. It turns...