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Citing meager 40 to 60 percent voter participation rates from leftist groups, Steinem added, "We're not doing...
...that is true, Proposition 187 might be Exhibit A. The intent of the voter-approved 1994 ballot measure was to deny state aid to illegal immigrants. Davis opposed it as lieutenant governor, and it was declared largely unconstitutional by federal courts. But its backers appealed, and this spring, Davis kept 187 alive by asking a federal court to send it to a mediator. "The obvious interpretation," Pete Wilson, head cheerleader for 187, told the Los Angeles Times, "is that he is trying to have it both ways...
...Over the last 20 years Latino voter registration has increased 160 percent, while voter registration for the nation has risen only 30 percent," he said...
Today, however, it is hard to deny his importance on the American political landscape, both because he has become something of a beacon for the traditionally disaffected voter, and because he is locked in a battle for control of the Reform Party with its eccentric founder, H. Ross Perot...
...conflict with Pakistan over Kashmir. "Indian democracy may produce unstable governments, but the country?s political and economic direction has been remarkably stable for most of the decade," says Rahman. No matter who's at the wheel, the broad policy direction remains the same. And that has many voters making their electoral choices on a more parochial basis. Or not at all - voter turnout was only 58 percent, which is low for India...