Word: voter
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...proposals to give candidates free, unfiltered access to the airwaves during the closing weeks of the race this fall. Their offers represented a victory for crusaders led by apostate journalist Paul Taylor and his coalition Free TV for Straight Talk, which has argued that the best way to counteract voter apathy and mounting cynicism is to create some new kind of forum in which the candidates would compete, gloves off, no referees and certainly no journalists...
...bolster their moves to the middle, both parties are also appealing to the undecided directly. Labor officials wrote to each of 300,000 party members asking them to name any wavering voter they knew. The party has signed up 300 reserve army officers to phone personally each of the identified floaters to try to convince them to vote Labor. The Likud is adopting a similar program, and has created a Website on the Internet to try to reach and persuade the agnostic...
...Yigal Amir's assassination of Rabin. "This is the one event that has tempered the campaign more than any other," says political scientist Aryeh Unger of Jerusalem's Hebrew University. "There's a postmortem charisma about Rabin that has pushed everyone toward the positions he espoused." Gadish, the floating voter, says the motives of Rabin's assassin account for some of his reservation about voting for Netanyahu. "I'd feel awful if Yigal Amir got what he wanted," he says...
...across the nation last week, gasoline prices--which have soared as much as 25 cents since February, to levels as high as $2.19 per gal. in California--were provoking a chorus of angry protests from motorists and truckers. Washington, particularly sensitive to voter discontent in a presidential-election year, made a response that was uncharacteristically swift and characteristically disproportionate. Senator Bob Dole, first off the mark, proposed in a letter to President Clinton that the 1993 federal gasoline-tax increase of 4.3 cents per gal. be repealed, an action that Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested Congress could accomplish by Memorial...
...Republican Congressmen has yet another star falling from the sky, following the trajectory of Texas' pro-assault weapon Steve Stockman and Utah's Enid (Where's Joe?) Greene Waldholtz. Oregon Congressman Wes Cooley won't say whether he married his second wife in the mid-1980s, as his voter-registration card and friends say he did. Or in 1994, when his wife notified the Veterans Affairs Department that they could stop sending her $900 a month in benefits as the widow of a Marine captain. His press spokesman says Cooley, a member of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, will...