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...said he is confident about the outcome of the election, because of the AFL-CIO’s demographically based strategy for ensuring union voter turnout...
...that the G.O.P. may still be so hooked on appealing to white resentment that it won't change course, because a lot of blacks are fed up with the Democrats. Black turnout was low in some states during the midterm elections because few Democrats offered bold alternatives to Bush's economic and international policies. We noticed that it was Republican conservatives like Charles Krauthammer--not leading Democrats like Senate leader Tom Daschle--who offered unprompted condemnation of Lott's praise for Thurmond's Dixiecrat presidential campaign. Daschle initially accepted Lott's half-hearted apology, adopting a tougher stance only after...
...publicity stunt, but he was there with us, he was talking to kids, and on the floor dancing,” added Chelsea S. Simmons ’06. “I think it does say something for Harvard that he gets such a big turnout by saying the president’s coming...
...does not have an overwhelming mandate from voters. The election turnout was low, and his 48.9% of the vote was just a 2.3 percentage point margin of victory over conservative opponent Lee Hoi Chang. Lee, 67, nearly squeaked into office by talking tough on North Korea. He argued that the North's recent confession of pursuing nuclear weapons in violation of international accords clearly showed that outgoing President Kim Dae Jung's "Sunshine" engagement policy had failed. But South Korea's younger voters, who grew up during the years when the country was run by military dictators propped...
According to Stopforth, the mixed turnout is typical for the exhibition, but some students said they did not expect people from outside Harvard to be interested in buying their classwork...