Word: voters
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Politics may be the very life of the American system as well as the nation's greatest spectator sport. But a time does come when the voter feels glazed, like a football fan who has watched New Year's Day bowl games played out across the time zones. The amount of money spent, the emotion and brain power diverted from the business of governing, make two reforms imperative. Campaign spending must be curbed or equalized, to end the scandalous situation in which, more and more often, political office in the U.S. is a rich man's prize...
...event of a low voter turn-out, a runoff between the two top candidates may be held...
Since it is double the size of other districts, each voter may cast two votes for the election of two Representatives...
...remaining prisoners are members of the following groups: the Parti Quebecoise, a separatist party which won 23 per cent of the popular vote in Quebec's parliamentary election last April; the Comites des Ouvriers, a collection of citizens' committees which have been organizing pro-separatist campaigns in voter districts around Montreal; and the American Draft Resisters' Committee...
Almost everything Rockefeller calls a success, Goldberg calls a failure: the state's mammoth building program ("an edifice complex," Goldberg says, borrowing an old sally), environment protection, schools. One of his most effective TV spots is meant to capitalize on voter frustration over mass transportation. Goldberg does not appear in it at all. New York subway riders do, during a typical rush-hour crush, as a voice-over says that Rockefeller claims to have built enough highways to stretch from Albany to Hawaii. The camera dwells on one harassed passenger as the voice says: "But he doesn...