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...presidential campaign, Fahrenheit 9/11 will have to entice the curious, the hostile, the indifferent--just as a politician's toughest job is to reach the large number of nonvoters. Moore keeps saying that America is "a 50/50/50 country. There are those who vote, who seem to be evenly split, but then there's the 50% who don't vote, and no one pays attention to them." Moore does. He's doing what he does best--pestering--to get them into theaters. And then to the polls...
...leader of the nation whose policies have so much impact on the world, matters to everyone. The U.S. enters the last stages of this year's campaign as a nation divided. Polls have consistently shown - reprising the razor-close margin of 2000 - that the electorate is pretty evenly split between those likely to support President George W. Bush, the Republican candidate, and Senator John Kerry, his Democratic opponent. And Kerry's dramatic choice of a running mate last week - his primary rival John Edwards, a charismatic North Carolina senator who is widely regarded as a better campaigner than Kerry...
...South Koreans remain evenly split on the troops issue. Nearly 50% oppose the dispatch, according to a recent television poll?down from 56% earlier this year?while 48.5% are in favor. But Kim's gruesome death has already transformed some opponents of the deployment into angry supporters. Marketing expert Kim Eun Kyung, 27, objected to helping with the war, saying, "It felt like we were a puppet of the U.S." But now, she says, "I want us to send a lot of troops. I want to get revenge...
...this makes the perfect setting for an America in which Rush Limbaugh can be a recovering druggie and conservative icon--an America that wants the binge and the purge, the sin and the penitence, all in one neon package. Until we find a better metaphor for our split moral personality, what happens in Vegas will stay ... on TV. --Reported by Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles
...Britain, have also warned that the only way to tamp down the insurgency will be to give the Sunni population, fearful of the Shi'ite majority over which they have long lorded it, a greater stake in the new political order. Should initiatives along these lines be pursued, a split might develop among different components of the insurgency...