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...cannot make it to the primary because they are working, sick, or deployed overseas have no way to participate. The sampling of Iowan voters that make it to the caucuses—under 15 percent of the voting-age population, even with this year’s record turnouts??€”is therefore not necessarily representative of the state. While the decision to abandon the primacy of the caucus system or the current primary schedule would be vigorously opposed by party leaders and special interests in the early states, we must recognize that the national interest and the integrity...
...House. And on a community-by-community basis, the same school board system that allows the religious right to hijack school control in the South allows the NEA to do it elsewhere. Most localities in the United States hold separate school trustee and bond elections, meaning far lower voter turnouts??€”usually between 10 and 20 percent—than the already-disappointing numbers in a statewide or even municipal election. Besides being problematic for those who have utopian visions of the wonders decentralization can do for America’s schools, this syndrome upsets the balance between unionist...
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