Word: voter
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...With no candidate who stands out as a clear vote for competence, voter support is breaking down much as it did last time around: along racial lines, almost by default, with blacks and liberal whites lining up for Dinkins and white ethnics backing Giuliani. The swing factor is the city's growing Hispanic electorate, which gave Dinkins 64% of its vote in 1989 but may deliver less for him this time around. Whichever candidate they elect, New Yorkers can only hope that their new chief executive will be modest enough to borrow a page or two from the new breed...
...Harvard students are not alone in their low rate of participation in local politics. City Councillor Timothy J. Toomey points out that Harvard students have a better voter turnout than their contemporaries down the river...
...reach out to every voter," Toomey says...
Trumbull cites McSweeney's appearances at a Quincy House voter registration drive and at a Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club meeting as examples of McSweeney's effort to reach student voters...
Pitkin says the system is especially fair because "almost every ballot ends up being counted for a candidate the voter favors...