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...there to be any question or doubt that the people have my full devotion," he said in a statement. It remains to be seen whether the people of California harbor such doubts; his approval ratings have already plummeted to 37%, down from 57% a year ago. "A lot of voters were looking to him to be their hero," says Kim Alexander of the nonpartisan California Voter Foundation. Now he's looking dangerously like a politician. --By Laura A. Locke
...shared by Chris Doyle, director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding. Doyle thinks Muslims need to pool their resources - locally, regionally and nationally - to increase their clout. The Muslim community, he says, "is beginning to realize that they have a real part in the solution." Yet Muslim voter participation remains low, and there are only four Muslim Members of Parliament out of a total of 659 M.P.s. Prime Minister Tony Blair has done his best to ensure that the message from Britain's political leadership is positive. Last week, he described the 2.8% of the British population that...
...allies have mounted an assault on U.S.-backed free-market reforms that are allegedly widening the gap between the region's rich and poor. Since Chávez was elected in 1998 (and again in a special 2000 election), leftist leaders like him have taken power or are leading voter polls in eight countries, including the two largest, Brazil and Mexico. The most recent domino to fall was Bolivia. Last month an uprising by indigenous citizens demanding the nationalization of the country's natural-gas reserves toppled the President, Bolivia's second to go in less than two years. Says...
...lesser lights in the court's history, O'Connor's impact was far greater in part because she could join either the more liberal or the more conservative side of a divided court, depending on the case. Her caution and sense of specificity made her the deciding voter on the nation's most highly charged social issues, such as abortion and affirmative action. Over the past decade, according to Goldstein & Howe, a Washington law firm, she voted with the majority in more than three-fourths of court rulings that were decided 5-4. Her vote has tipped the scales...
...British government, calls the whole lead-up to the G-8 "reverse lobbying": politicians like British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown have deliberately invited pressure from rock stars like Geldof and U2's Bono to make it easier for them to persuade voters to spend more on aid, and to make it more embarrassing for relatively recalcitrant countries like the U.S. and Germany to keep their wallets shut. Behind the scenes, the coordination among 10 Downing Street, the British Treasury and the activists - though they don't always see eye to eye - is constant...