Word: voter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because few seats were contested by serious challengers, voter turn out was low in Cambridge--where voter turnout usually reaches almost 50 percent. Only 37 percent of all Democrats and 25 percent of all Republicans showed up at the polls...
...voter apathy was out on the streets," said Thompson about an hour after the results were tallied. "They're disgusted out there--they know there are tough times ahead...
...have won most everything else in his battle for an all- cuts, no-new-taxes budget in line with what he called "our hardest times since the Great Depression." With two years to go before his own re-election challenge, he outtoughed legislators who ultimately cringed at possible voter reaction against them this November. "For the first time in my 10 years here, I was embarrassed to be a member of the legislature," admitted Republican senator Frank Hill. Lamented a forlorn Democratic assemblyman: "We might as well have painted targets on our foreheads...
...Gulfport to Hartford, bearing hundreds of advance men, surrogates, White House aides, Secret Service agents and reporters. These hordes will follow Bush through countless paralyzing motorcades and rallies, accompanied by helicopters, armored limousines, blocky weapons vans and scores of VIP-toting luxury autos, all in search of the elusive voter...
Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa marks in traditional style his party's electoral victory in Japan's upper house. The Liberal Democratic victory comes in the face of a controversial law to send troops overseas, a shaky economy and low voter turnout...