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Strapped for campaign funds and concerned about voter apathy, this year's candidates for City Council are forgoing expensive mailings and hitting the streets in an effort to win votes in next Tuesday's election, several candidates said yesterday...
...reason we have voter apathy is because we have Plan E," said Noble, referring to Cambridge's unique proportional representation voting system. Noble is campaigning against this complicated voting system...
George Will recently suggested that the steady decline in voter participation reflects the electorate's satisfaction. If people were upset with the state of affairs, Will asserted, they would vote in greater numbers. As so often when he is at his most entertaining, Will was dead wrong. People don't vote because they're turned off. Term limitation could energize the potential electorate. But even if it didn't, it would, by its very terms, shake up Congress, and no one who watched last week's spectacle can deny the attraction of that...
...Upon voter approval of the policy, the council would "call together all city services to catalog all programs that exist, identify significant gaps and find ways to fill those gaps immediately," Cyr said...
Then there's abortion. Bush used to be totally anti-choice. Now, with Republicans looking for a younger voter base, Bush is only mostly anti-choice. But a pro-choice Democrat could still milk this issue for all it's worth...