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...context. To instigate fear, they have to exaggerate something that’s really not there,” Scott H. Reed ’12 said. But Velo-Arias shared his firsthand observation of fear tactics. “One of the reasons why Cuban Americans generally vote Republican is there’s a fear of big government and fear of change,” he said. “That’s something they played on a lot back home in Miami to the Cuban American community...
...Nashville’s mayor—a job he says was “very satisfying.” When he ran for a second term in 2003, voters overwhelmingly showed their support for their northern mayor—he was reelected with nearly 85 percent of the vote...
Decades before Harvard students canvassed for Obama, Radcliffe women paraded the streets and distributed flyers door-to-door, demanding the right to vote. “Casting the First Ballot,” the fall exhibit at the Harvard College Women’s Center, draws together this struggle for suffrage with contemporary voter issues. Through reproductions of historical photographs and art by current Harvard students, “Casting the First Ballot” explores what it means to be a voter. “We wanted to make historical conversation between past and present,” says...
Asked about their faith in our voting system, I suspect a large number of college students would reply positively—at least since this past Tuesday, when Barack Obama prevailed with all the gusto of a hurricane. Yet, were the same question posed eight years ago, responses might have ranged from ambivalent to enraged, with a fair amount of grumbling about Floridians and Ralph Nader.So just how effective is plurality voting in choosing the “right” candidate—the one preferred by the greatest number of people? Pulitzer Prize nominee William Poundstone explores this...
...Lieberman may no longer be able to get away with it. Democrats have expanded their majority in the Senate by six seats - with three more seats still too close to call - and are no longer dependent on Lieberman's vote (although if they somehow win three more seats, Lieberman's vote could give them a filibuster-proof majority). Senate majority leader Harry Reid met with Lieberman Wednesday afternoon on Capitol Hill in what he said was the first in a series of conversations before the two will jointly address the party caucus when they convene in two weeks. "While...