Word: schier
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...think the very fact that Jesse won because of his celebrity is most distressing," says Steve Schier, a political-science professor at Carleton College. "There was this generational appeal for a wrestler by young voters who never cast a ballot before. It was not clear if they cared whether he could...
...wrestling fans, perhaps. But could the Body be a credible Governor? Steve Schier, chair of the political-science department at Carleton College, puts Ventura in the emerging populist tradition of Minnesota, a state that in 1992 gave 24% of its vote to Reform Party founder Ross Perot and in this decade has elected populists of both the left and the right--Democrat Paul Wellstone and Republican Rod Grams--to the U.S. Senate. Ventura's campaign slogan--"Retaliate in '98"--fits the tradition...
...last time the Commission changed voting locations was in 1986, when the number of precincts decreased by 11. The Commission used similar measures to publicize the changes and encountered relatively few problems, Schier said...
...Schier said the Commission's attempts to notify voters of current polling locations will actually increase voter awareness rather than deter voters from going to the polls...
...notification should prompt all--even those whose polling places have not changed--to vote in the election, Schier said...