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After finishing up his assault on the media, Moore said he thought high voter turnout could lead to a presidential win for Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass...
Moore—who said the country is not in fact evenly ideologically divided, but liberal—said the increased voter turnout would help Democrats...
Mason is confident that this week’s march was “definitely successful,” citing a healthy turnout and media attention from the Fox News Channel and public radio station WBUR...
...right. A crowd variously estimated to number 200,000 (by the police) or more than 500,000 (by the organizers) marched through Hong Kong on July 1, reprising the astonishing turnout for the first such demonstration a year ago. It's been conventional wisdom to describe the two marches as evidence of a new political consciousness in a city whose people were once said to be absorbed solely by a desire to get rich, but that isn't strictly true. Hong Kong has embraced political theater at times of crisis in the past. I was in Hong Kong the week...
...Organizers say the July 1 march was as big as the one last year, attracting some 500,000 people. Police put the figure at 200,000, although they admit that could be a low estimate. Either way, no one expected anything near the actual turnout?and the reaction in Hong Kong was swift and amazed. Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, one of the protesters' main punching bags?they distributed inflatable bludgeons imprinted with his caricature?was compelled to praise the march as "harmonious, with a touch of joyousness." The day after the march, a group of pro-democracy legislators asked...