Word: voter
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...skepticism-spillover problem is potentially acute for Bill Clinton, who is struggling back into voter approval with the budget fight. But he has been steadfast in defense of the wife who has stuck by him through more than one embarrassment. Early last week, after New York Times columnist William Safire called Hillary a "congenital liar," White House spokesman Mike McCurry said the President wanted to punch Safire in the nose. At his press conference on Thursday, Clinton compared his wife with Eleanor Roosevelt, another activist First Lady who came under fire. "For many of the same reasons," he added, "from...
Citing wide-spread perception of government corruption. Bradley called for radical reform because of increased voter distrust. "There are several reasons for this phenomenon, but one of them is money," he explained...
...candidates in Sunday's parliamentary elections. The Communists were the big winners, with 22 percent of the vote. Vladimir Zhirinovsky's nationalist party took a surprisingly strong second place, winning 11.2 percent of the votes with just under half the total reported. In the face of the surprisingly high voter turnout of 65 percent, a chastened Yeltsin spokesman said that the vote may cause the government to moderate its reform tactics: "It is necessary to draw conclusions from the results of the Sunday elections and to correct the course of reforms." Capturing an estimated 9.6 percent of the vote counted...
They also worry that the hectic academic pace at the end of December would lead to lower voter turnout...
...while he wrote a dedication," says Sancton. "That gesture, thoughtfully signing a book that made fun of him, said a lot about Chirac as a man. Of course, it also said something about him as a politician. The next time Chirac runs, in 2002, my son will be a voter...