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...some Bay State detractors were left with the impression that Kerry wasn't interested in issues that directly affected blacks. "There's lingering doubt as to whether he gets it," says Kevin Peterson, who runs a voter-registration group in Boston. Kerry is well remembered for saying, in a 1992 speech, affirmative action was "an inherently limited and divisive program" that "kept America thinking on racial terms." Though a Democrat, Massachusetts state representative Byron Rushing has said he will not campaign for Kerry until he sees a strategy that will energize black voters. "People want to like Kerry. People want...
...President stood firm, telling South Koreans that "terrorism must not achieve its goal." Washington, which needs all the support it can get in Iraq, praised Roh's tough-guy stance, relieved that for once he hadn't played to the anti-American sentiment of his young, left-leaning voter base. Even the conservative Chosun Ilbo daily, usually one of his harshest critics, praised Roh's "firm will." Says Lee Chung Hee, an expert on Korean politics at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul: "Roh showed he can be a quick and decisive leader even at the cost of losing...
...referendum could become a low-turnout vehicle for another protest vote. "The sad truth is, our politicians have done little to explain why various European reforms are productive and necessary," says Philippe Moreau-Defarges, senior fellow at the French Institute on Foreign Relations in Paris. "The average French voter has no idea what the proposed constitution is about." He thinks Chirac should embrace a referendum fight as a chance to connect voters more seriously to the E.U. But Margot Wallström, the Swedish E.U. environment Commissioner, believes the growth of Euro-skepticism and apathy evident in the election results...
...leave so many people so cold that only 45% bothered to vote in the European Parliament elections earlier this month - with many of them voting for parties that want to dismantle the Union itself? After a historic enlargement designed to heal the wounds of the cold war, why was voter turnout lowest in the East and Central European countries that just joined? And finally, how can Brussels manage to win the affection - or even the attention - of the people it's supposed to serve? This E.U. summit, unlike most, really did deliver a result worthy of Europe's attention...
...elections supervisors are eager to avoid a replay of 2000. "We already found one person [on the list] whose [criminal] charges had later been reduced to a misdemeanor," says a G.O.P. supervisor. Given what happened in 2000, he adds, "I'm going to err on the side of the voter this time...