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This year's council--like the others before it--consists of eager first-years, weary upperclass students and confused leadership. It is a council plagued with an abysmally low voter turnout and thus diminished legitimacy among students and administration. It is a council pestered by biased campus media and outspoken critics overly anxious to pounce on the slightest mishap and play down even the most notable achievements. And most troubling, it is a council that exists within a constituency of students who seemingly just don't give a damn...
...static debate lacking substance and misguided by simplistic solutions. Critics, who belittle the organization as incompetent and ineffectual, say the answer lies in focusing on larger issues instead of trivial whims. Others insist that the problem lies in an "apathetic" student body and that only by increasing voter turnout can the council can achieve the legitimacy it needs...
However, the internal party politics do notseem to be resonating with average voters, evenwith the crucial swing voter block...
...House, the very lawmakers to whom he owes his speakership. "To the solid core of Republicans who have hated Clinton since Day One, to back off now would be heresy," says a top G.O.P. lobbyist. "It would also destroy Gingrich's political ambitions." And in a year when voter turnout is expected to be lower than ever, the party's chances for capturing 20 or more seats in the House, as well as three to five seats in the Senate and nearly as many statehouses, depend on the very group of voters who are most eager to see impeachment through...
...Thankfully, elections are just around the corner. TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl says that fear of a voter backlash -- always politics' most potent motivator -- may end up pushing Republicans into a compromise passage. "There has to be a point when Congress realizes that unless this money is released to the IMF, the world recession is going to engulf the U.S.," he says. "And that would leave the Republicans as the ones who allowed it to happen...