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Monday's election--justifiably or perhaps unjustifiably--is perceived to be nothing less than a referendum on some of these pressing matters, most notably the peace process. Whereas a vote for the right-of-center Bibi is perceived to a be a vote for halting the peace process or for moving it forward at a snail's pace, a vote for the left-of-center Barak is construed as a vote for accelerating peace negotiations. However, this kernel of electoral wisdom may not have basis in actuality. If elected, Netanyahu will almost certainly make the concessions necessary for peace, albeit...
...favor over the last few days. Thus far, the race between Netanyahu and Barak has been neck and neck. Therefore, every percentage point counts. Very recently, the Israeli-Arab prime ministerial candidate, Azmi Bishara, dropped out of the race in order to give Barak his 2 percent Arab vote. Similarly, Barak received another shot in the arm when Center Party leader Yitzchak Mordechai withdrew and urged his supporters to vote for Barak. In an election which will be determined by a handful of votes, Barak seems to have the upper hand...
...have been happier. "After the coverage we got for that," says an adviser, "I say boo us some more." Annoying ardent primary voters isn't necessarily the losing strategy that it appears to be. Dole is figuring that the folks who were booing were the ones who would vote for Pat Buchanan or Dan Quayle anyway, and so she's bucking the time-honored tradition of running to the right in the primaries and lurching back to the center in the general election. Her calculation involves some new math, based on the belief that her survival depends on drawing into...
...dead end") as being about inclusiveness. But in fact the real goal is to hone her broad, soft support (from people who know her husband and like the idea of a woman in the race) into a core group of people who might be inspired enough to actually vote for her (those who agree with her on assault weapons and abortion). "I'd rather have 25% who love her than 50% who like her," says a Dole aide...
...Congress and the states have been in competition to see who could spend the least. On Monday, in the first significant decision applying brakes to that race, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that there are some constitutional limits beyond which the government cannot go. By a 7-to-2 vote, the Justices ruled that the people?s constitutional right to travel prohibits states from paying lower benefits to new residents than to longtime residents. The practice, which had been authorized by Congress in 1996, and whose intent was to let states keep out the needy they do not want from...