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...student volunteers spend the day campaigning, they vie for valuable sidewalk real estate and struggle to shout over other campaigns’ supporters...
Whoever winds up with the Democratic nomination will have to vie with President Bush not just in turning out the party faithful but also in wooing swing voters. In nearly every election, pollsters and pundits settle on at least one demographic du jour--the voting bloc that could (and sometimes does) turn the election. A look at the target voters in presidential elections over the years...
...more than two decades the networks have competed with cable. Now they also vie with home video, computer games and the Paris Hilton sex tape on the Internet. The old three-network system swore by L.O.P., least objectionable programming. Now sizable chunks of the audience, especially young viewers, demand most objectionable programming--unusual, gross, risque. If you don't give it to them, they'll watch Punk'd or play Manhunt instead. If you do, you may lose your other viewers to HGTV or Lifetime. In the most mass of mass media, it is no longer possible to please most...
...tied to limited career avenues. Rather, they should simply encourage students to enter college a means to successfully pursue whatever career option they deem appropriate. With any luck, and further incentives down the line, more students may enter public service as well. But now, while the candidates vie for position before the New Hampshire primary, is the time for further discussion on the more pressing issue: how to most effectively get more young Americans into college classrooms...
...Alan took a risk when he had his campaign manager run,” Fantini said. “They’re certainly going to vie for the same votes...