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Hopefully, this extraordinary turnout of candidates will prompt a similar voter turnout, starting at noon today when uc-vote goes active. Harvard students need to embrace their civic duty by voting for quality candidates to serve on the council. With voter turnout down last year, the enthusiasm shown by candidates should invigorate their peers to get out—or, more accurately, get online—and vote...
...misread the Dean voter. We are not all young, white, upper-middle-class, suburban, East Coast--educated liberals. Some of us--like me--are black, middle-age, urban and politically pragmatic. We understand that Dean is not the flaming leftist some say he is. We support him because he did not cynically back President Bush's Iraq-war gambit. Dean speaks out for what he believes; he's willing to tackle difficult problems and try innovative approaches to solving them. He's not perfect, he has his rough edges, and we supporters may not agree with him on some issues...
Ironically, California's political paralysis is a result of attempts to make state politics more progressive. The ballot initiative and recall processes, intended to give a voice to the ordinary voter, have often been taken over by well-funded special-interest lobbies. Term limits have sent to Sacramento inexperienced lawmakers who are not interested in political bridge-building...
Enter the candidates and their swing-voter induced dysfunctions. The first stop on the Soccer Mom Shuffle World Tour 2004 was the debate between the Democratic candidates in South Carolina earlier this month. The debate gave us our first taste of just how silly this primary is going to be. While Joe Lieberman boldly accused his opponents of liberalism, Al Sharpton was busy trying to arbitrate a peace between mortal enemies Howard Dean and John Kerry. Dennis Kucinich suddenly realized that even he had never heard of himself, while Carol Moseley-Braun drew heavily upon whatever-the-heck...
...ensuring that soft money does not remain a back door method for the indirect funding of candidates. Soft money donations began in the 1970s as a way for parties to finance encouraging participation in the political process. But parties now spend the cash largely on attack ads that increase voter cynicism and provide little useful information about candidates. Even worse, many large donors such as Phillip Morris and Dow Chemical give to both political parties, a practice that looks more like out-and-out bribery than a principled political statement...