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...With the race as tight as it is, Hagan's chances in the once reliably red state may boil down to voter education thanks to a quirk of state political history. In the '80s, the Democratic controlled legislature got 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...
...tremendous strain on any state's electoral infrastructure (see Ohio in 2004). So the question looming like Spanish moss in Tallahassee is, Has Florida girded itself adequately since 2000 to keep whatever cracks haven't been fixed - especially in trouble spots like Palm Beach - from turning a tight race into a real mess...
...ironically, is a lifelong Democrat who is voting for Obama.) "Florida could be close," he adds, "[but] it doesn't look like it's all going to rest on a single state. McCain has an uphill battle in a bunch of states. Going into the 2000 election, it was tight all over the place." True enough. But fair or not, when things get tight in Florida, Americans instinctively brace for a car wreck and its long-lasting damage...
...witness the real McCain, the political animal in his natural habitat, you have to leave the lectern far behind. The Republican nominee's heart will probably always lie in his famous town halls in the tight-knit communities of New Hampshire. On Sunday night, too late for many of the networks to cover it, McCain returned once more to his adopted home for one more unscripted, spirited gathering. He was greeted in the streets of Peterborough by roughly 1,000 screaming, pom-pom waving and freezing supporters...
...1990s, with angry coal miners blocking railways in Siberia and unpaid workers striking in the cities. Now some enterprises are again failing to pay their workers, while others simply go out of business. But disruptive protests would contravene a new labor code passed under Putin in 2001, which sets tight restrictions on the forms of protest available to trade unions. But a Russian state that narrows the options of legal protest available to its people during a major national crisis may be courting serious trouble - it's certainly a principle that Czar Nicholas II failed to understand...