Word: voter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jillson said voter interest outside the Boston metropolitan area shouldn't come as any surprise--about 75 percent of those who signed the petition bringing rent control to a referendum came from outside the area, she said...
...party official told TIME Daily. "He gave us the equivalent of millions of dollars of free publicity," says Blay Tarnoff, ballot access coordinater for the Libertarians, and an ardent Stern for Guv supporter. Left unsaid was the distinct probability that the Libertarians failed to gather the number of voter signatures required for putting Stern's name on the ballot...
...suffered from horrendously poor voter turnout for at least twenty years. The GOP can claim about 40 percent of the nation's voters, but that's only 20 percent of the nation's eligible voting population. Opinion polls and domestic issues perennially find majorities on the side of Democrats. Quite simply, if every American over the age of 18 became informed and voted, the Republicans would have a hard time winning another presidential election...
Unfortunately, voter turnout is falling. Republicans, ever a minority, have less and less to fear from consensus. Perhaps Govs. Weld, Whitman and Wilson will wake up to the fact that shooting for consensus could just cause them to be ostracized in the party. Still, the GOP doesn't have many better--or at least relatively untainted--candidates for high office than those three...
Clinton's defense is that he supports the campaign-finance reform bills stalled in Congress. The legislation would limit contributions from political- action committees and ban soft money, the currently unlimited contributions to political parties used for voter registration and party-boosting activities. But Clinton has been nearly silent on the issue this year, possibly because the Democrats face a major loss of congressional seats in the fall elections. In the meantime, Clinton says he won't "disarm unilaterally" while Republicans and other enemies are still out earning money the old- fashioned way. "There's no contradiction at all," said...