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...have their own slate and, if they choose, to cross-endorse candidates from a major party or other small parties. This lets them build up a steady base of support and demonstrate that level of support each election, while avoiding the danger of a “wasted vote?? that simply doesn’t count or, worse, that throws elections to one’s least desirable candidate...
Either the judiciary or the states must stop one of America’s most undemocratic practices from spurring an electoral crisis. Since the Supreme Court instituted the “one man, one vote?? concept in Baker v. Carr in 1962, it has played a pivotal role in regulating election law, sparking what many scholars have termed the “reapportionment revolution.” Unfortunately, the Court has been reluctant to intervene in cases involving partisan gerrymandering. Last year, in Vieth v. Jubelirer the Court ruled that it would not invalidate Pennsylvania?...
...tried to make it a political debate, using the weary charge of “political correctness” and conventionally political tactics like petitions and—as I suspect will be shown by this afternoon’s meeting—“get out the vote?? drives. If this conversation takes place on such political terms, Summers will have won by default—bringing Washington politics to a university that has thus far resisted them. In short, with Harvard in the media spotlight, unusual power has fallen to those who never liked...
...national security. From day one, the centerpiece of his campaign was protecting the country from terrorism and remaking the world a safer and freer place. Among those who listed terrorism as their top concern, Bush held a wider margin of victory—with 86 percent of the vote??than either candidate held on any other issue. Among all voters, he beat Kerry by 18 percentage points on ability to protect America from terrorism. A majority still approve of his decision to go to war in Iraq and believe it was part of the wider war on terrorism...
Bush’s victory in this close election can be explained by the one in five voters who said that moral values were the most important issue driving their vote??four out of five of them backed Bush. The fact that the next president would have a chance to appoint a Supreme Court justice, potentially overturning Roe v. Wade, and the fact that gay marriage was on the ballot in states such Ohio helped drive these voters to the polls, potentially swinging the election in Bush’s favor...