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...Somewhere in southern Spain, however, a nagging worry caught up with me. Americans—particularly young Americans—have democratic freedoms but don’t use them. According to the web site IDEA (the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance), in the 26 national elections since 1945, the average voter turnout rate for citizens age 18 to 24 has been only 48.3 percent. This is well below France (67.3 percent), Spain (77 percent), and even Morocco (57.6 percent). (China hasn’t had comparable elections.) Americans in this age group, aptly dubbed “Generation...
...Faust argued in a 1990 article that white Southern women became disenchanted with the Confederate cause as the war dragged on, concluding that “It may well have been because of its women that the South lost the Civil...
...factors like "Type A" personality, anger or depression. But "very few studies look at many psychological factors at one time," says Biing-Jiun Shen, lead author on the anxiety paper and an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Southern California. "I think that's a unique part of this study...
...looking for Huckabee, a Southern Baptist preacher, to do well in Yankee New Hampshire. He spent the days leading up to the primary cooking up photo ops and retooling his Iowa-focused message for a more national audience. Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson continued to underperform their supporters' early hopes, while the libertarian contrarian Ron Paul continued to exert his narrow but intense appeal...
...points. He crushed Mitt Romney, despite the Mitt machine, a massive campaign organization that ruled the August straw poll and dropped nasty mailers like confetti. Now he is polling third behind Romney and McCain in New Hampshire, the two home-state favorites, at about 11%, a Southern Baptist minister who has pulled ahead of a former New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani, in New England. Huckabee has skillfully set expectations low enough that a third-place finish in New Hampshire will be viewed as a success, and he is also leading in polls in South Carolina, where the G.O.P. will hold...