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...Will it be once this country succeeds in burning all its bridges with other nations, when the president of the United States is taken as seriously as the president of Syria? Will it be once this country finally hacks down the bridges necessary for checks-and-balances, when the trust placed in the executive branch by Congress finally evaporates? Or will it be when Americans look around a few years from now and realize that they don’t even trust their government to tell the truth—ever—anymore...
...know who the next President is by Thanksgiving," says Ted Jelen, chairman of the political-science department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "I just don't see a gracious concession happening this time. This could get awfully ugly." Especially if institutions that are basically built on trust are infected with a sense that they don't work anymore. Then the necessary healing after any election gets only harder. "It's scary," Jelen concludes. "It scares the hell...
...about going to war in Iraq because of weapons that didn't exist, and it ends with him showing what's left of an arm that was blown off. Another Progress for America spot features pictures of Osama bin Laden and a band of fighters and asks, "Would you trust Kerry against these fanatic killers?" Message makers on both sides say that in a race this tight, it takes extreme measures to break through. "I think it is probably more aggressive and more negative than any campaign I've seen for President," says Democratic adman Steve McMahon...
...times of crisis, Americans gravitate toward leaders whose convictions point toward a grand project that others don't yet perceive. After 9/11 Bush benefited from the public's willingness to suspend its skepticism and go along with his audacious vision for transforming the Middle East. Some of that trust, however, was squandered with the invasion of Iraq--and so the challenger finds the presidency within his grasp. Kerry may yet win as a result of the collapse of Bush's vision. But if he does, the scale of the challenges facing the new Commander in Chief will demand that...
...should not be forgotten that 12% of voters nationwide (and more than 70% in dead-heat Ohio) will be using the punch-card ballots that caused such havoc in Florida in 2000. But the lack of transparency in electronic voting may be particularly problematic. "The reason people trust elections is that they can see what's going on," says David Dill, a computer-science professor at Stanford University and founder of the Verified Voting Foundation. "With electronic voting, the handling of the ballots, putting ballots in the ballot box and counting of votes--all of that is hidden inside computers...