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Ralph Nader still hasn't lived down the charge that his third-party candidacy in 2000 swung the election to George W. Bush. It's the perennial problem for third-party candidates: too often they serve merely as spoilers, siphoning votes from candidates their supporters might otherwise back. But a little-noticed proposition approved last month by San Francisco voters offers a glimpse of how democracy may look in the future. Instead of casting their ballots for just one candidate, San Franciscans will now rank the candidates in most local races according to their first, second and third choices...
...looked for a pitch to hit and I swung,” Whitton said. “It happened to go out today...
...Princeton players] were just good hitters,” Allard said. “They swung their bats. Suzanne pitched great, but they’re just a good hitting team and they’re going to adjust to somebody...
...meeting was hardly over when a Palestinian woman blew herself up in downtown Jerusalem, killing six Israelis and wounding scores more in the second terror attack inside Israel in three days. The bombing appears to have swung the fragile balance of the Bush administration's conflicted Middle East policy back in the direction of the hawks skeptical of renewed engagement with Yasser Arafat. Whereas Powell had responded to Wednesday's suicide bombing that killed nine people in Haifa by saying the event underscored the importance of his peace mission, President Bush Friday demanded that Arafat condemn the latest outrage...
...think we could have done better if we had swung our bats,”Allard said. “We struck out looking a lot. We gave them a lot of respect. We need to come to battle more...