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...help remind him of the central dynamic of the 2004 election. It shows five neat bar graphs for each presidential election since 1988 and last year's midterm election. Republicans are in red, Democrats are in blue, and between them a shrinking wedge of green shows the independent voter, a segment that has diminished with each contest...
...registrations that Democrats say they gathered in the city's African-American and Latino neighborhoods. "The Republicans are not really expanding their base; they're turning out their base," says Democratic organizer Steve Rosenthal, whose new group, Partnership for America's Families, helped run the voter-registration operation and has other pilot projects under way in Cleveland, Ohio, and St. Louis, Mo. "The base on the Democratic side is much more expandable than the base on the Republican side...
...opposed gay marriage. With an eye to numbers like that, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican, is urging the adoption of a state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. But under state law, amendments have to be approved by two successive sessions of the legislature and then by a voter referendum--a process that would take at least three years. Four Cambridge city-council members already have a plan that would begin issuing symbolic marriage licenses there as soon as this week...
...Boston Red Sox and young voters have one thing in common: many people do not take them seriously. Young people have one of the lowest rates of voter turnout because politicians do not take them seriously; politicians do not take them seriously because they vote in such low numbers. This endless cycle goes around and around, but unlike the curse of the Bambino, this curse can be broken. The baseball season is over, the political season has just begun, and young voters are the Wild Card of the 2004 presidential election: will this be the year they turn their reputation...
...good enough for Iraq's leading Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, who has demanded that Iraqis be allowed to elect the government that determines their future. Bremer and the some members of the IGC counter that elections cannot be held before next summer because there are no voter rolls - and they also fear that direct elections will return a government dominated by the Shiite majority, and not necessarily particularly friendly towards the U.S. or the presence of its troops. But Sistani, a traditionally moderate cleric who has previously counseled quiet cooperation with the U.S. authority, enjoys far greater legitimacy...