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...there will be a runoff vote, which will take place this Sunday. Meanwhile, Kostunica is contesting the new vote as undemocratic. He has urged Serbs to boycott the polls and flood the streets in protest. Some Western analysts have questioned the wisdom of this strategy. They fear that low voter turnout will enable Milosevic to declare a fraudulent victory after the second round...
...Certainly if the just-tuning-in, undecided voter were tuning in for issues, Round 1 could not have disappointed. On the surplus (big tax cut or small tax cuts), Social Security (privatize some or not), energy policy (drill Alaska or not to drill Alaska), and anything else one might have been listening for, the differences were clear and usually cheerfully admitted...
...Eligible voter participation in presidential elections fell below half for the first time, to 49 percent in the 1996 race, according to the non-partisan Committee for the Study of the American Electorate (CSAE). And these same statistics reveal the emerging participation of a voting class: distinguishable ethnically, regionally and socioeconomically from the non-voters to a degree that makes difference between voting Democrats and Republicans nearly indistinguishable...
Things show little sign of changing this fall. Eligible voter turnout has been in steady decline since a peak of 63 percent in 1960, with the largest losses coming from minority and low-income groups and young people. At the time, this statistic produced a flurry of articles from activists, economists and naysayers, jockeying to correctly diagnose the apathy of the American public...
...naive. Like a swing voter, I got sucked in by negative TV ads. When I moved to San Francisco in April, Pacific Bell was all over the airwaves with a spot that spoofed life in a cable-modem world, where neighbors have to share Internet bandwidth and end up fighting one another during prime time because their service has slowed to a crawl. This, the ad said, is why you should instead get the superfast phone technology DSL (Digital Subscriber Line). For $40 or more a month, it's supposed to let you surf at around 30 times the speed...