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...Dole, I am your worst nightmare. I am a single working mother with a voter-registration card. LINDA ANDERSON Mill Valley, California...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I'm not going to be a lockstep voter with Newt or anyone else...
...this year's elections impel only a small portion of Louisiana voters to the polls on Nov. 5--the state had the second-lowest voter turnout among the 50 states in 1994, after Florida--it will be less a tribute to voter apathy than to the peculiarity of Louisiana's open primary, which has already sent five of this year's eight candidates for Congress to office. (All the major-party candidates, including the five victors, are profiled in this guide. Those who have already won are marked by shaded boxes...
...matter how old," Towle notes. In North Carolina, it's a somewhat different story. Helms' bitter, racially charged 1990 contest against former Charlotte mayor Harvey Gantt established Gantt as a legitimate contender. Since then, a coalition of politicians and civic leaders has registered tens of thousands of new voters -- many of them black. "It there is a pivot, it will be the dramatic increase in black voter registration since the last election. Black registration is up 31 to 34 percent in some urban North Carolina counties," Towle says. Polls give Helms an eight to nine point lead, but with...
...often the case that the more one invests in the political process, the more one receives in dividends. Too prove that point, just compare neighborhoods and ask whose potholes are being fixed, whose infrastructure is being rehabilitated and even who gets visits from their representative. The fact that voters choose not to vote should signal that our politics is in need of correcting. And what of the voter who chooses to vote for a candidate who has no measurable chance for electoral success? That voter uses his or her vote to make a value statement, an opportunity that few people...