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...first candidate in 16 years to receive a majority of the popular vote. And he is the first President since FDR to be reelected and also increase his party’s majority in both the House and the Senate. All this in a year with the highest voter turnout in history and the greatest percentage of the electorate voting since...
...numbers are in, and America’s youth vote has lost again. Despite an historic push by numerous groups, including Rock the Vote and Vote or Die, it seems that more voters ages 18-30 voted than in the last election, yet only in proportion to the increased turnout among the entire electorate. Based on the historic levels of voter registration among the young, we expected more from Generation...
...have made the process. Students who think they were disenfranchised by an unfair or ill-designed system should ask their state to adopt the simpler, more efficient model of a state like California. A government premised on the rule of the people is made more legitimate by high voter turnout and especially high voter turnout across all slices of America. With a few simple changes, states could strengthen the democratic fiber of America by delivering the legitimacy the even slightly higher turnout would bring...
...domestic policy agenda that includes rewriting the tax code and privatizing social security—issues that were not paraded as the centerpiece of his campaign. Although Bush won by a margin of 3 million popular votes, his re-election was in a large part due to the huge turnout among evangelical Christians who were brought to the polls by their concern for social issues. Bush cannot rightly claim a mandate to pursue a controversial domestic agenda on issues that were not central to his campaign in a country that remains so highly divided...
...credible Sunni political parties to choose from. Community leaders are worried that the absence of a strong Sunni party would leave them without adequate clout in the next government and, crucially, in the drafting of the new Iraqi constitution. But the biggest danger may be that a low Sunni turnout would undermine the legitimacy of any new government and dash prospects of a quick postelection pacification of the resistance. "If the Sunnis don't feel they have a stake in the national government," warns a Western diplomat, "they will be a constant source of friction within the political system." Failure...