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...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...
...after years of bitter partisan battle, the choices are also stark. As the country splits between the faithful and the secular, how does he continue to inspire the white Evangelicals, who support him in overwhelming numbers, while not alienating the independents or further inflaming the Democrats so that their turnout rises as well? And more important than the politics is the policy. How, for instance, does a devout President rally a country against an enemy that claims to fight in God's name without implying that this is a Holy War? "For every person who likes the way he talks...
...democracy atrophy and economies settle into overregulated mediocrity. Blair has the toughest sales job on the constitution, but he's not the only one. Even Chirac has resisted a referendum, though 74% of French people polled want one. Chirac apparently worries that a referendum could become a low-turnout vehicle for another protest vote. "The sad truth is, our politicians have done little to explain why various European reforms are productive and necessary," says Philippe Moreau-Defarges, senior fellow at the French Institute on Foreign Relations in Paris. "The average French voter has no idea what the proposed constitution...
...first European Parliament elections since E.U. expansion, citizens yawned at the grand experiment: 45.5% - an all-time low - took part. Turnout was worst in the new E.U. states; 21% of Poles and 17% of Slovaks cast ballots. Voters punished ruling parties and boosted Euro-skeptics across the E.U. Austria Voters said Ja to reform in the European Parliament, giving two seats to a list led by whistle-blower Hans-Peter Martin The far-right Freedom Party lost four of its five seats, sparking an emergency change in leadership Belgium Popular with Flemish voters but vilified by the mainstream parties...
...founders aspired is once again rubbing up against the public's mix of apathy, doubt and outright hostility - and the heat from that friction could make the new constitution go up in flames. The European Parliament elections a few days before the summit provided the first fires. With turnout across the E.U. its lowest ever - and in the new member states averaging an appalling 26% - Euro-skeptics and nationalists won about 15% of seats overall. One of Sweden's new Euro-skeptic M.E.P.s, Nils Lundgren, calls his victory "a clear sign of dislike and frustration. People don't like these...