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...tired of losing down ballot races thanks to weak presidential candidates and separated the ballots. On this year's ballot, therefore, voters have to vote twice-once for president and once for the Democrats from the state - rather than being able to make one single choice for the entire slate of Democratic candidates...
...Crimson’s schedule this season includes the usual slate of games against ECAC competition and local non-conference foes, but the team will also travel to the Great White North to take on Minnesota for a two-game series starting...
...Some argue that I should vote to send a message. But not voting sends perhaps the strongest message of all. It expresses discontent with the entire slate of candidates and with the current state of democracy. Perhaps more importantly, unlike a “lesser of two evils” vote, it does not signal that the winning candidate has received the blessing of the voter. An increased turnout can often give the winner a greater mandate, one that he or she may not deserve...
What the story really revealed is an ecology that Mickey Kaus of Slate calls the "undernews": stories, true and false, that percolate in the blogs or tabloids until the "respectable" press is forced to soil its white gloves, just as what happened with the John Edwards love-child story. (Wow, how long ago was that? The 1980s...
...undefeated in Ivy League play. If you’re a Crimson fan, hope that it’s Penn. The Quakers have a much harder schedule than the Bears after this week, facing Princeton and Cornell on the road, along with Harvard, while Brown’s final slate consists of the disappointing Yale and Ancient Eight bottom-dwellers Dartmouth and Columbia.If the Crimson sweeps through the rest of the season—a very realistic possibility—a Penn win tomorrow would at least guarantee Harvard a share of the Ivy League championship.Prediction: Penn 14, Brown 10COLUMBIA...