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States as diverse as New Hampshire and California went Democratic Tuesday for the first time since 1964 -- not because two young Southerners wowed voters there, but because both states had plunged from prosperity during the Bush years. In the national exit poll conducted by Voter Research & Surveys, a consortium of TV networks, 43% of voters named the economy as the paramount issue -- twice the percentage identifying any other concern. Among that 43%, Clinton topped Bush better than...
...most obvious explanation for governmental "grid lock," to use a recently coined term, is a sort of voter schizophrenia--the propensity to vote for local and national candidates with completely different views of the nation. This phenomenon is evident from the fact that Democratic Congresses have sat alongside Republican presidents for the last 12 years. Moreover, states that voted overwhelmingly for a Democratic President, like Massachusetts and Connecticut, elected and re-elected Republican congresspeople...
Nevertheless, one could propose that voter schizophrenia has temporarily subsided with the election of a Democratic president. In fact, Clinton garnered a percentage of electoral votes roughly proportional to the Democrats' holdings in Congress. Were it not for Ross Perot's fairly strong showing. Clinton's gains in the popular vote might also have reflected this distribution...
...case, a simple solution to the "voter schizophrenia" problem is to equip all voting booths with two levers--Republican and Democrat--that would register votes for all the candidates of the respective parties. Although President Bush showed us that desperate measures are always in order in an election year, such action might cheapen the electoral process...
...panelists applauded the record number of women elected to Congress and statewide offices, attributing theresults to voter dissatisfaction with the statusquo...