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Pervasive government corruption and even criminalization is a factor in voter disenchantment (according to the Election Commission, 1,500 of 13,952 candidates in the 1996 elections had criminal records, including murder, rape and kidnapping), but the overwhelming cause of voter apathy has been the inability of one single party to gain enough support to enact positive programs. The main force that allied Congress and the United Front was not common ideology or common programs, but the singular desire to keep the BJP from power. An alliance founded on hatred of a common enemy is uneasy at best, and when...
With these words, Gore introduced the world to Bold Al--the side of Gore that Gore himself likes best, the one that sheds the chains of craven political calculation (sheds them so noisily, in fact, that every voter can hear them clanking) and becomes a gutsy leader. He wrote the passage shortly before he was tapped to be Clinton's running mate, and although the job of Vice President is not normally associated with heroic behavior (think George Bush and Walter Mondale), Gore really has been bold. Clinton "was looking for a buddy movie, a political version of Butch Cassidy...
...Voter turnout for the election was 3,084, a marked increase from last year. In fact, 4 percent more students voted this year, yet the increase signifies only one percent more votes than the election two years...
When transfer student Sara M. Jablon '00 tried to vote, she said she received a message saying "unable to proceed: you are not in the voter database...
Despite predictions of low voter turnout due to the subdued nature of this campaign and the relative obscurity of most of the candidates before it began, more students voted in this popular election than in either of the previous two, Turnout numbered 3,084 students, just shy of the 3,166 students who voted in last week's Harvard Dining Services' campus-wide referendum on serving grapes in the dining halls...