Word: voter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Voter apathy was high and turnout in New Yorkwas low, as expected. About one million votes werecast, far less than the 1.57 million cast fouryears ago. Part of the reason for the low turnoutmay be widespread voter dissatisfaction with thechoices available, as exit polls indicated. NBCreported that 66 percent of New York Democratssaid they wanted a new candidate to enter therace...
Just six months ago, a mad-as-hell voter enraged at the mess in Washington and disgusted by compromising politicians in both parties would phone his favorite radio-talk-show host to vent his throw-the-bums-out spleen. Now that same populist rage is dialing right into the political system -- right into the volatile center of the 1992 presidential race -- and mainstream politicians from Bill Clinton to George Bush are all but cursing the invention of toll-free telephone numbers...
...past political seasons, there have been moments when it looked as if the structure of traditional two-party politics would finally collapse under the weight of too many 30-second attack ads, too many sound bites, too many backroom handlers, too much voter apathy and too many dispiriting November choices between candidates who inspire more cynicism than commitment. These interludes pass, which is why it is tempting to dismiss the latest manifestations of anti-Establishment sentiment as a short-term aberration. The Connecticut Democratic primary, after all, was highly unrepresentative: the turnout was low, the voters were angry, and local...
...have lost to the white racist press and to the racist reactionary Jewish misleaders." That concession speech alone might be enough to convince southside Chicago voters that they had done the right thing by ousting Gus Savage after six terms in the House of Representatives. Savage, 66, was beaten by fellow Democrat Melvin Reynolds, a 40-year-old black educator and Rhodes scholar, who won 63% of the vote. Unsuccessful in two previous challenges, Reynolds benefited this time from suburban additions to the remapped district and growing voter disgust with Savage's incendiary provocations. The race turned sinister as Election...
...point of Jerry Brown's focus on money and power is that he wants to empower regular people and pull them back into the system. Voter participation rates have followed a declining trend, and voter apathy appears to be reaching an all-time high--either because people are unimpressed by the candidates or feel that they can't influence them...