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Mark Halperin's "On the Fence: A Voter's Guide to the 2008 Election" was a sad reminder of how personality and strategy have winnowed away any attention to actual issues [Oct. 22]. The guide purported to instruct undecided voters, but it paid less attention to substantive policy issues than it did to the very political maneuvering that turns people away from political reporting. The piece provided inane details such as John Edwards' penchant for cheeseburgers and Mitt Romney's fondness for Lake Winnipesaukee. This trivia takes the place of information about such topics as the wars in Iraq...
...Furthermore, this tendency is growing within the young voter population as well. Nigel Ashford, senior program officer at the libertarian Institute for Humane Studies, says “There is a growth of libertarian campus groups which arise independently. A few are linked with the Libertarian party, but most are independent, and interested in ideas rather than direct politics...
...site has a constantly updated calendar of important campaign events. Plus, it's truly 24/7, updated by our colleagues in Hong Kong and London. And just in case you don't get enough politics on The Page, you can read Mark's newly released book, The Undecided Voter's Guide to the Next President...
...abortion restrictions that deprive women of their equal rights and reproductive freedom. This year promises more of the same. Among other cases, the court will decide whether the Bush Administration can continue to imprison hundreds of detainees at Guantánamo Bay for years without any meaningful judicial review, whether voter-ID laws are constitutional and whether we can execute human beings using a lethal-injection protocol that we do not allow for our household pets. These are not small questions. The answers will help determine our standing in the world, the functioning of our democracy and what the Supreme Court...
...increasingly ham-fisted attempts to stay in power have eroded public confidence. A recent survey by the U.S.-based International Republican Institute found that Musharraf's ratings have reached rock bottom. "As the national mood continues to sour, President Musharraf continues to bear the brunt of this voter dissatisfaction and his approval rating has dropped to an all-time low of 21%, from a high of 63% in September 2006," says the report...